Dara Beth's Classroom Library

The Very Busy Spider was published in 1984 by Eric Carle. This story is about a busy farm yard spider that will not stop spinning her web despite how many times her other farm yard friends try to get her to stop. Eventually, the spiders web is complete and has caught its first fly! When it reaches night time and the spider is sound asleep, the owl is amazed by the beauty of the web. Throughout the story, the students can see and feel the web growing until it is complete. As a fun science activity, I would have a printable of a spider that comes with cutouts for the parts of the spider for the students to glue in their appropriate spots! This would be a fun way for the students to easily learn about spiders. Fun fact: there is only one place in the whole world where there are NO spiders! This book is on a 1.3 book level according to the Accelerated Reader book leveling system.