Ten Little Spiders Made a Web in Mr. Alex's Class

Today our class learned about spider webs, and had a talked about patience during circle time. The children and I spoke about a spider having to be patient and work very hard to make their webs. I wanted to have the children engaged in an activity that involved patience and helped them learn about spider webs. To guide the children's learning about the patience and hard work it takes to make a spider web I decided that they were going to work together and take turns to make a spider web of their own.

The children sat in a circle and passed a ball of yarn to their friends one at a time. After each kiddo got the ball of yarn, the yarn was taped down and passed to another child until they all decided they were finished. As the kids were passing the ball of yarn around making their web we spoke about needing to be patient and wait for our turn, but also spoke about how much harder it is for one spider to spin a web opposed to ten kids. Below is a picture of the kids spider web that was produced through patience and hard work!