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Juvenile Nonfiction - Animals - Insects, Spiders, etc.; Juvenile Nonfiction - Activity Books | Random House Books for Young Readers | Hardcover | July 2007 | $7.99 | 978-0-375-84029-6 (0-375-84029-X)
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Grover Monster and his friends take a very close look at the world of insects. Everybuggie has fun (especially the Twiddlebugs!), and everybuggie learns that even though there are more than one million kinds of bugs in the world, they all share certain characteristics.
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Here Is the Beehive:
Here is the beehive
(Hold up one fist)
But where are the bees?
(Hold out other hand in query)
Hidden away where nobody sees.
(Cover fist with other hand)
Watch and you'll see them come out of the hive
(Hold up index finger of nonhive hand)
One, two, three, four, five —they’re alive!
(Extend fingers one at a time)
Bzzzzzzzzzzzz!
(Flutter fingers to resemble flying bees)
Fuzzy Wuzzy Creepy Crawly
See how inventive your little bugs can be as they interpret this classic poem, by Lilian Schulz, with creative dramatics.
Fuzzy wuzzy, creepy crawly
Caterpillar funny,
You will be a butterfly
When the days are sunny.
Winging, flinging, dancing, springing
Butterfly so yellow,
You were once a caterpillar,
Wiggly, wiggly fellow.
Shoo, Fly, Don't Bother Me!
Get the ants out of your pants (or the flies out of
your eyes) by singing and dancing to this familiar favorite!
Ask the children to join hands in a circle and swing
their arms for the "Shoo, fly" repetitions, and then
skip in a circle for the remaining verse.
Shoo, fly, don't bother me,
Shoo, fly, don't bother me,
Shoo, fly, don't bother me,
For I belong to somebody.
I feel, I feel,
I feel like a morning star,
I feel, I feel,
I feel like a morning star.
Baby Bumblebee
Do you remember this one?
I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee
(Cup hands as if holding a bee)
Won't my mommy be so proud of me?
I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee,
(Shout) Ouch! It stung me!
(Shake hands as though hurt)
I'm squishing up the baby bumblebee,
(Grind palms together)
Won't my mommy be so proud of me?
I'm squishing up a baby bumblebee,
(Shout) Ooh! It's yucky!
(Open hands and pretend they're gooey)
I'm wiping off the baby bumblebee,
(Wipe hands on shirt, pants, etc.)
Won't my mommy be so proud of me?
I'm wiping off the baby bumblebee,
Now my mommy won't be mad at me!
(Smile and show clean hands)
Ladybug Spots Matching Game
For younger children, this one's a challenge:
Create "ladybugs" by cutting circles from red poster board or using small red paper plates (even big red buttons will do). Mark the "ladybugs" with a permanent black marker, giving them spots in a variety of numbers. Put the bugs in a box, basket, or bowl, and let the little ones sort them: bugs with the same number of spots; spots in 1, 2, 3 order; or even bugs whose spots add up together to specific numbers.
Insect Life Cycle Sequence Cards
Give children cards with one the following insect life stages represented on each: egg, larva, pupa, adult. Ask children to arrange the cards in the order in which the stages occur. You may want to make several sets of cards, displaying some of the many different forms of pupal life: chrysalis, nymph, etc.
Build-a-Bug
Draw or find lots of large pictures of bugs, and cut them into the three body parts that all insects have: head, thorax, and abdomen. Shuffle the pieces and let kids assemble their very own bugs. Bet you'll get some weird mutations!
Insect Memory Game
A great game to play alone or with a friend! Create a set of Memory game cards by pasting pictures of insects (you can draw them, print them from an online source, or cut them from magazines) to index cards. You should make two of each kind of card (e.g., two butterfly cards, two ant cards, two bee cards, two dragonfly cards, and so on). Place the cards facedown in a square on the table or floor.
On each turn, a player will first turn any one card over, and then any second. If the two cards match, the player scores one point. The two cards are removed from the game, and the player gets another turn. If they do not match, the cards are turned back over. The turn then goes to the next player, or the solitary player continues to hunt for matches. The object is to match more pairs of cards than the opposing player, or to sharpen your skills if you are playing alone.
Ants on a Log Snack
This perennial favorite has lots of variations:
Fill a celery stick (a.k.a. the log) with peanut butter or cream cheese, and top with raisins, peanuts, or chocolate chips (a.k.a. the ants). Yum!
Antennae Headband
Cut strips of cardstock long enough to fit around the children's heads. Measure them around the children's heads and then let the children decorate the bands with crayons, markers, glitter, etc. Help the children to attach chenille pipe cleaner for the antennae, perhaps with feathers or pom-poms glued to the ends or bent into unusual shapes. Then staple the ends of the strip to form a headband. Look at all those beautiful bugs! Everybody buzz!
Thumbprint Insects
Use a nontoxic, water-based stamp pad and let each child make lots of thumb- and fingerprint marks on a piece of art paper. Remember, all bugs have three body parts: heads, thoraxes, and abdomens. Use crayons or markers to add buggy details: six legs, antennae, eyes, and wings. The children might also like to add hives, holes, hills, and plants for the insects to inhabit.
Insects by Robin Bernard
I Like Bugs by Margaret Wise Brown
Hurry and the Monarch by Antoine Ó Flatharta
Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly by Alan Madison
Face to Face with Caterpillars by Darlyne A. Murawski
On Beyond Bugs: All About Insects by Tish Rabe
Science Chapters: All About Ants by Sue Whiting
Virtual Insects and a Spider
Virtual insects inhabit this Web site, maintained by the Department of Entomology at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Insect Printouts
Find black-line printouts of all sorts of insects along with full-color reproducibles at this user-supported site.
Using Live Insects in Elementary Classrooms
This site is maintained by the University of Arizona Center for Insect Science and includes lesson plans with activity sheets.
Activities prepared by Kathy Krasniewicz, Youth Services Librarian, Perrot Memorial Library, Old Greenwich, CT.
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