Fun Summer Learning Bug Week

Summer Learning Bug Week

Summer Learning Bug Week! I’m doing my own little summer learning with Grey and this week is bug week! Just an hour or so 5 days a week of learning activities that I have found.

I am by no means a preschool teacher, but I am a high school teacher and a mom who has the summers off. I want Grey to continue to learn all summer, so we sat down and he listed a bunch of things he wanted to learn about.

We have one topic a week that we have decided to learn about. I’m learning so much. Below is my summer long topic plan, keep in mind, these are all things Grey wanted to learn about.

Week 1 – Bugs
Week 2 – Outer-space, Planets and Rockets
Week 3 – Ocean and Fish
Week 4 – Race-cars and Monster Trucks
Week 5 – Dinosaurs (Duh)
Week 6 – Human Body
Week 7 – Animals – “A lot of them”
Week 8 – Music
Week 9 – Sports

Here’s what I am doing this and we are so lucky because my nieces are coming to join us this week! Here is my week long more in depth unit plan, be looking for pictures of the activities as the week goes on and more description.

Bug Day 1

Song: Baby Bumblebee
Story: Paw Patrol
What is the purpose of Bugs?
Name Spelling with Dots – Adapted from Busy Toddler – You write the child’s name on butcher paper and have them pull off sale stickers and put them on their name. Works on spelling and fine motor skills.

How are fossils made? Make bug fossils with Playdoh – Look for pictures.

Bug Day 2

Song; Ants Go Marching
Story: Cuddle Bug
Bug Rescue and Sorting – Put bugs in Play rice and have them dig the bugs out of the rice and then sort them by color or type of bug into different cups or bowls and then count how many of each.
Run and Find Letters – Put different letters on post it notes and then have the kids draw a letter out of a bowl and then they have to run and find the letter on the wall.
Ants colonies Lesson

Bug Day 3

Song: Itsy Bitsy Spider
Story: Kids choice
Spider Lesson
Cut, color/Make Spiders and butterflies – Arts and crafts, paper, paper plates and pipe cleaners.
Dot # match – Write the numbers 1 – 10 on a piece of paper with boxes and then also write the numbers on sale stickers and then have the kids put the numbers in the squares on the paper.

Bug Day 4

Song: I guess I’ll go eat worms
Story: Wiggling worms at work
Bug Hunt – We bought a bug hunting kit on amazon. I’ll post it on my Friday favorites.
Worm Lesson and Function
Trace Letters – Just write the letters and have the kids trace them.

Bug Day 5