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​Here are some funny spider memes and photos that have been doing the rounds in WhatsApp. As they are of Australian spiders I thought it would be fun to include them on my pages. We really do have spiders this big in Australia but with the exception of the Funnel web, all the others are not dangerous. […]

PLEASE NOTE THAT AT NO TIME ARE CHILDREN ALLOWED TO HANDLE LIVE SPIDERS AND ARE TAUGHT NOT TO TOUCH ANY SPIDERS, AS ALL CAN BITE. ALL LIVE SPIDERS KEPT IN THE ROOM ARE IN SEALED CONTAINERS AND ARE ONLY FED BY THE TEACHER. About two weeks after school recommenced in 1998, one of the children […]

There are many famous spider poems that we are all familiar with. All poems are copyright to their authors. Here are some of them as well as some sent in by viewers that are not so well known. The Legend of the Spider and the Silken Thread held in God’s Hand There’s an old Danish […]

PLEASE NOTE THAT AT NO TIME ARE CHILDREN ALLOWED TO HANDLE LIVE SPIDERS AND ARE TAUGHT NOT TO TOUCH ANY SPIDERS, AS ALL CAN BITE. ALL LIVE SPIDERS KEPT IN THE ROOM ARE IN SEALED CONTAINERS AND ARE ONLY FED BY THE TEACHER.  In 2000, the children really got into spider collecting in a big […]

As a Year 5 teacher at Rochedale State School, I did a theme on Spiders every year with my students. My motivation for this was to help children overcome their fear of spiders and show them that spiders are beneficial to our ecosytem and not something to be stomped on at first sight. This is […]

There are many famous spider songs, many we may not even realise we know or have heard sung. Here are some of the well know and not so well known sent that I have found or been sent in  by viewers. Thanks to Mrs Jones and if anyone has any others, please send them along. […]

Another one of the writing activities for our Spider Theme was to write a letter telling someone why not to be afraid of spiders. The children wrote some very convincing letters and I often receive emails from people who are afraid of spiders and found our letters to be helpful to them. James’s Letter DON’T […]

Another one of the writing activities for our Spider Theme was to write a story about a spider. I also had 2 sent in from other schools in the US and other readers from Europe. Thanks for that. “Tarantula the Terrific” by Jessica  One day when I came home from school our garden looked totally […]

As our technology project, the children in Year 5, were asked to design a home for a spider. They had to take into account what sort of spider they were designing the home for and make an appropriate structure to suit its needs. They also had to draw a plan and front on view of […]

Year 5 Spider Poems: Our Spider poems were written after learning about Rhyming Poetry. The children had a choice of rhyme. They could use either “a,a b,b” where every two lines rhyme, or “a,b a,b” where very second line rhymes. The children found it hard to write and the following poems are some examples of […]