Itsy Bitsy Spider

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I read this story in my fieldwork classroom recently and loved it! The children enjoyed singing along with the part they were familiar with and were intrigued by the spider's new adventures. It was a fun experience seeing what the spider faced and overcame after climbing up the water spout.

A) This song could be used as a felt board activity. After singing/reading the story students would take turns helping the teacher retell the events using the felt board.

This nursery rhyme is about a spider who continues throughout the book to climb up different objects, but faces different obstacles as it tries. The spider does not let obstacles get in its way and continues to try climbing again and again. At the end of the book, the spider is able to climb up a tree and spin its silky web with ease. Original 3-line review: This book is a great book to read to the younger grades for its rhyming and captivating language and pictures. The students could be really engaged, especially in the beginning, since it should be a story they are mostly familiar with. I love that the book expands on the story that we all know, to make it a longer, more eventful one. Evening Session, Thursday, February 15, 1912". Proceedings of the Convention of the Indiana Sanitary and Water Supply Association – Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Convention. 15–16 February 1912. p. 105.

This is by far one of my favorite books to read with children. Children enjoy singing along with the part they were familiar with, but are intrigued by the spider's new adventures. The children continue to participate actively because it is something familiar but with a slight twist in the storyline. The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the waterspout to build her home. Then came clouds and rain and the spider was washed out. But the little spider did not give up, but instead started to climb the waterspout again and rebuild her home.Danish-Norwegian pop band Aqua, then known by their original band name Joyspeed, released a single only " Itzy Bitzy Spider" Later, the song was published in one of several modern versions in the book Western Folklore by the California Folklore Society in 1948. It was also published in Mike and Peggy Seeger’s American Folk Songs for Children, also from 1948. Original 3-line summary: The Itsy Bitsy Spider is about a spider that goes through many obstacles to try to made a web again. The rain, the fan, a mouse, a cat, and some dew on a tree all get in the way of the itsy bitsy spider spinning a web again. At the end, she is finally able to rest in the sun on her web after the tree dried off. Uses in class: 1. The class can use construction paper and/or felt to make spider puppets. then, they can sing the song aloud and make the spider puppet "crawl up the spider web" as they say the words to the rhyme.