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~Gone Buggy~
Like many of our
theme units, Gone Buggy is full of outside links for web sources.
If you have any difficulty with any of the outside links, please let
us know. Many resources for this lesson have come from
Learning Page. You
must be a member to use these sheets, but membership is free.
There are two areas to this theme unit
Projects & Activities and
Lesson Plans. To create your own
theme lesson plans, use our theme planner printable.
Fun Projects & Activities
~Make a Bug Journal~
Visit www.shapebooks.com
and pick your favorite insect shape to make a shape book journal
(these are under free printables). Make a copy for each child
on card stock (or you can laminate the front and back after they are
colored). Since you don't need the picture on the back use a copy of
the shape as a pattern to trace around. You will have a plain
back to run off on card stock. Now you can use the same
pattern to make the sheets for the book, just add lines with a ruler
if you like and run off on copy paper. Be sure you have some
shaped pages with no lines for students to add illustrations to
their journals. Give students a journal topic for each day and
at the end of your unit, assemble the books by stapling or using a
hole punch and stitching together.
~Take a Buggy Field Trip~
At Learning Page you
can download lesson plans for each theme unit. Download the
insect lesson plans for 1st-2nd graders (this field trip can be used
for any age group). Prepare any of the Collecting Devices
lists (instructions are given) before you go hunting for bugs.
Divide students into groups (for large classes) and give each group
a copy of the Insect Inventory Page. Take students to the
playground or a local park (or even your back yard!) Have
students look at each insect and keep an inventory of the insects
they see on your field trip. After the students have returned
they can create a bug scrapbook by making a book (can be a shape
book if you like) of sketches
~Mural Mania~
Every theme at Learning Page
has a great mural activity with it. The mural background can
be downloaded as one 15 page file (to make downloading easier, right
click on the link to the pdf file and "save target as". This
way you don't have to open the file to save it.) For larger
groups of children you will want to more copies of each page, all
the mural backgrounds are continuous and can be made as large as
needed. Working at home with our two children we only need one
copy of each page. Color the backgrounds (this takes us about
a week, and I usually work on them once the kids are in bed too).
You can add as much or as little color as you like, and more
coloring can always be done once the background has been assembled
and is up on the wall. Use the cut outs for the insects theme
from Learning page to add life to your mural. I love these
because they are made to scale and students can see a good
comparison of true size in nature.
~Insect Fact File~
Learning Page has a
great fact file available with each theme unit. Younger
children will enjoy coloring the pictures while you tell them a bit
about the insects and older children will use their fact files to
complete science activities. I have created a
cover for the insect fact files that you can use. There is
extra space at the bottom for each child to add their name.
You can print these out and attach them to bracket folders (the ones
that you can add pages to) for kids to have a fact file they can use
as a research tool.
~Buggy Books Reports~
Stephen Cosgrove has written a wonderful series of books
affectionately known in our home as the Bugg Books. We have
quite a collection of them and to use them in lessons I have created
a Buggy Book report. I have modified it so that you can use
it for any buggy books your children read for this theme.
Visit Learning Page for a
recommended reading list for this theme.
~Magic School Bus Lessons~
Our kids love the Magic School Bus and I love the extra
activities
Scholastic provides free of charge on their web site. You
can purchase the videos if you like, but check your local library
first, ours has a great selection you can rent for free. Here
are the insect related titles to look for:
Ants in Its Pants
Butterfly and the Bog Beast
In a Beehive
Spins a Web
Each of these titles has a wonderful lesson with it on the
Scholastic web site. You can use the printable activities as
well as the hands on ideas. None of these activities require
watching the videos to complete so even if you can't find a video
you can still do the activity.
~Buggy Math~
Are your students learning addition or multiplication facts?
Create an Inch by Inch worm to measure progress. Make a head
from green construction paper with antennae and eyes with a name tag
that hags (as if around the neck) for each child's name.
Cut 10 circles and number 0-9. As each child can do the facts
for a number they get to add it to their worm. This idea can
also be used to measure the amount of books a child has read for a
reading goal (such as AR). You can use our
buggy
patterns to make your inch by inch worm of you like.
Lesson
Plans
These are
the lesson plans we use with this theme. Feel free to adapt
them to fit your needs.
Monday
Opening:
Activity Card
Writing: Make a bug journal
Spelling:
Pretest
Language: Learning Page w/s
Reading: Bugg Book
Math: Learning Page w/s
Science: Start Fact File
Theme Work: Mural
Tuesday
Opening:
Activity Card
Writing:
Journal Topic
Spelling: Daily
Work
Language: Learning Page w/s
Reading: Bugg Book
Math: Learning Page w/s
Science: Finish Fact File
Theme Work: Mural
Wednesday
Opening:
Activity Card
Writing:
Journal Topic
Spelling: Daily
Work
Language: Learning Page w/s
Reading: Bugg Book
Math: Learning Page w/s
Science: Magic School Bus
Video Butterfly and the Bog Beast
Theme Work: Mural
Thursday
Opening:
Activity Card
Writing:
Journal Topic
Spelling: Daily
Work
Language: Learning Page w/s
Reading: Bugg Book
Math: Learning Page w/s
Science: Magic School Bus
Butterfly Activity
Theme Work: Mural
Friday
Opening:
Activity Card
Writing:
Journal Topic
Spelling:
Lesson Test
Language: Learning Page w/s
Reading: Bugg Book
Math: Learning Page w/s
Science: Learning Page w/s
Theme Work: Complete Mural
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Monday
Opening:
Activity Card
Writing:
Journal Topic
Spelling:
Pretest
Language: Learning Page w/s
Reading: Bugg Book
Math: Learning Page w/s
Science: Learning Page w/s
Theme Work: Watch Magic School
Bus In a Beehive
Tuesday
Opening:
Activity Card
Writing:
Journal Topic
Spelling:
Daily
Work
Language: Learning Page w/s
Reading: Bugg Book
Math: Learning Page w/s
Science: Learning Page w/s
Theme Work: Do Magic School
Bus In a Beehive Activity
Wednesday
Opening:
Activity Card
Writing:
Journal Topic
Spelling: Daily
Work
Language: Learning Page w/s
Reading: Bugg Book
Math: Learning Page w/s
Science: Learning Page w/s
Theme Work: Prepare for a Buggy
Field Trip
Thursday
Opening:
Activity Card
Writing:
Journal Topic
Spelling: Daily
Work
Language: Learning Page w/s
Reading: Bugg Book
Math: Learning Page w/s
Science: Learning Page w/s
Theme Work: Take a Buggy Field
Trip
Friday
Opening:
Activity Card
Writing:
Journal Topic
Spelling:
Lesson Test
Language: Learning Page w/s
Reading: Bugg Book
Math: Learning Page w/s
Science: Learning Page w/s
Theme Work: Make a Buggy
Field Trip Book
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