Thursday, October 26, 2006

Spiders this week in school

So this year I am teaching first grade. This week we are studying spiders. For anyone who knows me, these are my least favorite of God's creatures. I created a huge spider web much to the children's enjoyment, along with a very large spider. Then that night I found a huge common house spider in our basement of which J trapped for me to bring to school. The kids have been catching flies to feed it and I have promised to release it humanly (of course if it happens to head my direction it will have an unfortunate demise as my arachnaphobic brain doesn't rationalize that spiders are helpful.) I have to admit though it has been theraputic to sit in a room filled with spider pictures, books, and a web large enough to trap a small child. My skin only crawls occasionally when reading to the students. :)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm proud of you for doing the spider project since I know what a fear you have of those creatures. And that was one big spider you found in the basement!