Parts of an insect craft

Insect anchor chart for teaching the parts of an insect.

A fun craft activity- or craftivity, to do with your kids to learn about parts of an insect!

It's about to get real buggy up in this classroom. Insect Investigations are well underway in first and second grade!!Meet Eddie! He's our resident Entomologist. Eddie is going to be sending out class letters all throughout this unit. Not just letters, but also photographs of the insects he is studying. With each letter the class will be practicing our inference skills too. Photographs that will be coming with the above letter. :)As we study each Insect, we will be adding them to the jumbo…

Hello Friends, We just finished our apple/bee unit. We made a fun field trip to the apple orchard and were given the opportunity to see real bee hives, taste apple cider, and learn how bees help apples grow. We piggyback our insect standard onto this unit. We use the bee to learn that insects have 3 body parts, have 2 antennae, and have six legs. We love doing this unit in the fall because the insects are alive in our part of the country. Even though bees pollinate apples in the spring…

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Hello friends! Maybe some of you have noticed but I have made some (not many) adjustments to my blog... what do you think?? Mainly I added a Pinterest and Twitter icon that I made all by myself! AND I got the images to link to the right places AND I got those images to be next to each other! lol. Oh the small achievements that make me happy! Follow me on Pinterest and Twitter with a simple little click now! (I hope) Also, I realized today that my Classroom Pictures link is broken (wonder how…

Label the parts of an insect

Body Parts of an Ant Game Like all other insects, an ant’s body has a hard outer casing, and are divided into 3 sections: head, thorax and abdomen. It has 6 jointed legs. What you need Step by step Body parts of an Ant Printable Dice Scissors Build an ant part by part, with each part corresponding to a number from 1 to 6. Download and print the template on card stock paper. Cut out the 6 insect body parts. To play the game, takes turns with your sibling or parent to roll the dice. Then…

These hands-on insect activities for kindergarten are a great way to add literacy and math practice to an insect thematic unit.

FREE and original song on the characteristics of an insect. Help kids remember the parts of an insect through song. "Song Of An Insect", by Differentiation Station Creations.