"The Very Busy Spider"

Authors: Eric Carle

Summary: Eric Carle did an amazing job illustrating and designing this book. It is about a little spider who is on a mission to make a beautiful web. However, many different animals want the spider to come and do fun things with them! The spider never answered and kept spinning its web until finally that night she finished, and fell asleep from working hard on her web!

Theme: Working hard always pays off!

Initiation Questions and Activity:

Questions: What do you think this story is about? What do you know about spiders?
Activity: Create your own spider web! Brainstorm anything you know about spiders.

Culminating and Extending Questions and Activity:

Questions: Why do you think the spider ignored her friends? Why do spiders make webs? What was your favorite part of the story?
Activity: Using construction paper, markers and your thinking caps, create a short story of something you have worked on hard that you are proud of! What did you do? Where did you do it? How long did it take?