Thursday 20th May

This afternoon during ChIL time some of the children helped me build the web of an orb web spider. While looking for information on how spiders can walk up walls we found a step by step animation of how a spider builds its web. This can be found at the site ‘How stuff works!’ http://animals.howstuffworks.com/arachnids/spider.htm/printable. I talked to the children about why spiders have webs
Taylor: Spider make webs for a house.
Jessica: It’s a dinner plate.
The animation had notes that go with it that let us know that the spiders lay both sticky thread and non sticky thread , I asked the children why?
Sabrina: The sticky web is to catch its dinner.
Jessica: The non sticky thread is for the spider to crawl on, it would get stuck on the sticky bits.
The green string is the sticky thread, the blue is the non-sticky.