ANTS
Books:
Henry’s Awful Mistake by Robert Quackenbush
I Saw an Ant on the Railroad Track by Joshua Prince
I Saw an Ant in the Parking Lot by Joshua Prince
Picnic! by Joan Holub
The Ant and the Grasshopper by Mark White
The Ant and the Grasshopper by Amy Lowry Poole
Ant and Honeybee: What a Pair! by Megan McDonald
Sarah's story by Bill Harley
“I Can’t” Said the Ant by Polly Cameron
McDuff Saves the Day by Rosemary Wells
One Hundred Hungry Ants by Elinor J. Pinczes
Activities:
Five Hungry Ants
Flannelboard Directions: Find clipart of five ants, a salad, a cake, and a pepper shaker: print and cut out. You can laminate or put contact paper on the pieces to make them last longer. Put ants on craft sticks and hold them during the rhyme; the other pieces can go on the board. When you "sneeze," toss the ants in the air around you.
Five hungry ants,
Marching in a line.
Came upon a picnic,
Where they could dine.
They marched into the salad,
They marched into the cake,
They marched into the pepper...
Uh oh, that was a mistake!
Achooooo!
Picnic basket sorting:
Put a picnic basket and a plastic tub at the front of the room. Gather together lots of items in a shopping bag (some that belong in a picnic basket, some that do not). (Optional: Sing On a Picnic We Will Go, then…) Let the children take turns reaching in and pulling out items, then deciding where the item belongs--Would you take this to a picnic or not?
On a Picnic We Will Go
(Tune: "Farmer in the Dell")
On a picnic we will go.
On a picnic we will go.
Let's fill our picnic basket up
On a picnic we will go.
Ant Hill
Once I saw an ant hill with no ants about.
(hold out fist with fingers tucked in)
So I said, "Little ants, won't you come out?"
Then, as if the ants had heard my call,
One, two, three, four, five came out….
(as numbers are called, fingers are extended)
And that was all!
Apple Game:
10 apple cut-outs (You can number them 1-10) and a cut-out worm. Hide the worm under one apple, then say the rhyme. The kids can guess where the worm is. You could easily turn it into a game that they play on the floor by having several sets and grouping children together.
Ten juicy apples hanging from a tree,
Five for you and five for me.
There's one little worm that you can't see...
Where, oh where, can that worm be?
Crafts:
Picnic Blanket
Glue squares of red paper onto a sheet of white paper, or just give the kids a sheet of paper that looks like a picnic blanket. Cut pictures of food out of magazines and let the kids glue them onto their picnic blanket. Then let them glue plastic ants or pictures of ants all over the top.
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