Teaching Heart's Insects
Unit and Theme

Last Updated - April 2012

If you are doing a insect unit with your class, then you have come to a great place to get insect lessons, poems, printables, links, books, and much more.
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Let's Start off with some free resources...

I just did a guest blog that has two free printables with a buggy theme and are for fraction practice grades 1-2.

Buggy Fraction Board.

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Crawling Fractions Gameboard. Just print out the game cards with pictures of caterpillars colored to match a fraction.
Cut those and lay them face down on the game board. Two students can play together. They take turns drawing a card and naming the colored caterpillar fraction.
The player then moves marker to the nearest matching fraction. First person to reach finish, wins!
For added fun, buy a pack of plastic bugs at your Dollar store and allow your students to use those as markers.

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Click here to read more about these and to download them.

I have many Buggy Printable Resources on the Bugs and Caterpillar Packet - Click here to learn about that.

Here are just some of the printables found there...


Lady Bug Adding. Students add up the dots to make an addition problem.

Lady Bug Ending Sound Activities.

Bug Graphing Fun

Butterfly Glyph Activity

Sorting and counting insects. Trace Colored word.

How many ladybugs on a leaf pocket chart activity.

Click here to learn about these resources seen above...

 

Insect Poems, Fingerplays, and Songs!

BUG POEMS SONGS -
A collection of rhymes, song lyrics and poems about insects, spiders and other bugs.
Just click on a title to see the rhyme, lyrics or poem in a new browser window (you will not lose this page).

The Insect Song

Found A Butterfly
Tune: Oh, My Darling

Found a butterfly,
Found a butterfly,
Found a yellow butterfly.
It was sipping the sweet nectar
From a flower by the fence.

Tried to catch him
In a bug net,
To keep him for my pet.
But he fluttered by,
Oh, sweet butterfly.
Haven't caught a pet yet!

Pretty Ladybug
Tune: The Muffin Man

Ladybug has 1 black spot,
1 black spot, 1 black spot;
Ladybug has 1 black spot,
Pretty ladybug!

Bug Song
Tune: Are You Sleeping

Big bugs, small bugs,
Big bugs, small bugs,
See them crawl, On the wall.
Never, never falling,
Never, never falling
Bugs, bugs, bugs,
Bugs, bugs, bugs

To get you started on an insect unit, start by checking out some of these general sites!

3-D Insects
Welcome to the digital world of insects.
The Bug Club
For young entomologists
Insects Bulletin Board The Butterfly WebSite
Here you can tour the photo gallery,
learn how to plant a butterfly garden,
take a field trip, find a pen-pal, chat with other butterfly-lovers
and so much more!
Yucky Bug World Insects as Food
Recipes for insects

Get Crafty!

Make and Takes shares
a cute Ladybug Craft

Crafts by Amanda Shares Milk Lids Made Into LAdy Bugs...

 

Check out Egg Cup Insects

No Time for Flashcards
Shares Many Buggy Crafts

Apartment Therapy
Shares Lightening Bugs Made
With Eggs and a Tealight. Click over to see them in the dark.
Too cute!!!


Need an Insect Lesson? Just click on one below!!!

Bugs Elem. Pre-Kinders Shares a Bug Theme
I Like Bugs Unit KinderPlans
Hungry Caterpillar Ideas Pinning INsects

Great Insect Books & Products To Spice Up Your Insect Unit. Click on the title to learn more about the book!

3D Eyewitness: Insect

A Bug's Life

ABC of Crawlers and Flyers

About Bugs: Level 2

Amazing Bugs

Amazing Butterflies and Moths

Amazing Insects

Amazing World of Butterflies and Moths

An Extraordinary Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterfly

Annie the Ant: Bend-a-Bug Books

Ant (Life Story Series)

Ants (Nature Close-Up)

Backyard Hunter: The Praying Manti

Beasty Bugs

Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo!

Bedbugs in Our House

The Bee (Animal Close-Ups)

The Bee (Life Cycles)

Beetle Boy

Beetles (Nature Close-Up)

Beetles Lightly Toasted

The Best Book of Bugs

The Big Book of Mobiles: Bugs

The Big Bug Book

Bizarre Bugs

Bug Book

Bugs

Bugs!

Bugs and Other Insects

Bugs, Beetles, and Butterflies

Build Your Own Bugs: Learn All About Insects As You Stamp Together 8 Real Bugs!/Book and Rubber Stamp Kit

The Butterfly and the Stone: A Story

The Butterfly Book: A Kid's Guide to Attracting, Raising, and Keeping Butterflies

The Butterfly Book: An Easy Guide to Butterfly Gardening, Identification, and Behavior

Butterfly Boy

The Butterfly House

Butterfly Magic (Troll First-Start Science)

Caterpillarology (Backyard Buddies)

Crafts for Kids Who are Wild About Insects

Creepy, Crawly Caterpillars

The Cricket in Times Square

Cricketology (Backyard Buddies)

Cucumber Soup

Dragonflies

The Dragonfly of Lookout Mountain

Draw 50 Creepy Crawlies

Earthworms (Great Exploration in Math and Science Series)

Earthworms : Underground Farmers

Ed & Fred Flea

Eight Legs (Creatures All Around Us)

Entomology (Real Kids, Real Science Books)

An Extraordinary Life : The Story of a Monarch Butterfly

Extremely Weird Insects (Extremely Weird)

Eyewitness Readers: Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!

Find and Add with Billy Bug

Fireflies

Fly Went By

Good Bugs for Your Garden

Grasshopper on the Road

Insects

The Grouchy Ladybug

Grow a Butterfly Garden

Harry the Poisonous Centipede : A Story to Make You Squirm

Have You Ever Seen an Ant Who Can'T? : Creepy, Crawly Stings and Wings From God's 'Buggy' World

Helping Bugs

The Honey Makers

How Do Flies Walk Upside Down? : Question and Answers About Insects (Berger, Melvin. Scholastic Question and Answer Series.)

The Icky Bug Alphabet Book

Incredible Insects (Ranger Rick's Naturescope)

Incy-Wincy Spider With Finger Puppets

Insect (Eyewitness Books)

Insect Soup : Bug Poems

Insect World (Children's First Library of Learning)

The Insectalphabet Coloring Book

Insectlopedia

Insects and Crawly Creatures (Eye Openers)

The Itsy Bitsy Spider

Ladybugology (Backyard Buddies)

The Magic School Bus : Butterfly and the Bog Beast : A Book About Butterfly Camouflage

The Magic School Bus : Inside a Beehive (Magic School Bus (Paper)

The Magic School Bus Gets Ants in Its Pants : A Book About Ants

The Magic School Bus Spins a Web : A Book About Spiders (Magic School Bus)

The Mosquito Book

My Day in the Garden

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders

Nature Watch Spiders (Nature Watch Series)

On Beyond Bugs! (The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library(Tm).)

Hundred Hungry Ants

Outside and Inside Spiders

Giant Ant Farm

Butterfly Garden

Free Activity Sheets To Print and Share With Your Class!

Insect Word Find Butterflies
Which Is NOT An Insect? Insect Dominoes
Poor Caterpillar Which Butterfly Is Different
Help The Caterpillar Help The Anteater
Insect Concentration Buggy Addition
Insect Wordfind Where Does The Bee Live
Animal and Insect Pictures The Ants Have It!
Camouflaged Butterflies ( The "Beetles and the Bedbugs" Song
Insects KWL Insect Shapes Books 
Fact Cards Buggy Buggy2 Game
Insect Patterns Butterfly Life Cycle
Ladybug Word Search Fractional Parts
Butterfly Coloring Book Cricket Jumping Contest
Insect Coloring Book -

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