Spinner the Spider

Hello, my name is Spinner the Spider. 

I like to help my friends make connections to their reading. As a first grader your kiddo will be working on make three different kinds of connections. Text to Self – Making connections to your own experiences Text to Text – Making connections between two or more books. Text to World – Making connections between books and world events.

Today we read the book Diary of a Spider and worked on all three kinds of connections. For example some kiddos made a connection when the spider said that he had a “vacuum drill”. This made the students think of the fire drills that we have had at school. As we continued reading this story we met spider’s friends worm and fly. This made us think of the books Diary of a Worm and Diary of a Fly. Finally, the book mentioned Grandparent’s Day and we made a text to world connection. We discussed this holiday and how some families celebrate it. We also discussed things that we could do on grandparent’s day.

Please try using me while you are reading at home! J

Love,

Spinner the Spider

P.S. We also made spider hats today. Did you know spiders are not insects. Insects have 6 legs spiders have 8!