Hi all,

We are currently learning about an exciting book called ‘Diary of a Spider’.

Before we start the diary, we have been researching some facts about spiders that your children may have told you!

Did you know:

Female tarantulas can live for 20 years……

A spider has special oil on its body to stop it from sticking to the web

The wolf spider carries the spiderlings on its back

Spiders eat the silk from their unused webs and recycle it- turning it into more silk!

Spiders always have 8 legs but can have up to 12 eyes depending on the species.

We researched these amazing facts through websites & Youtube videos.  If you would like to watch them with your child at home, please click the links below!

Once we had researched the facts, we wrote them in neat in our own words on our own spiders.  Then we attached the head, cut out some eyes and fangs and stuck on 8 legs, 4 per side.

We think they look amazing and the children worked hard to remember lots of facts!