The very busy spider

The very busy spider is intent on spinning his web. He is constantly interrupted by various animals on the farm. We see how hard it is for a spider to make a web, and why he makes his web. This book illustrates completing a project and the rewards of a job well done.

This book is a great way for students to see progress and development on a project. A spider stays focused and works hard on something and in the end gets a fly! Hard work pays off! Students can make observations about what's happening in the picture and young children can feel the web being made

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on the page.

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I love this book and remember loving it when I was young. About a spider that spins her web and nothing can stop her until she is done. It was good book for young readers because it has short wording and very good illustrations.

After reading the book talk about what you notice in each picture. Also dicuss each character and what they wanted to do with the spider.

Neat illustrations and good reading too.

Another great book done by Eric Carle. He is one of my favorite childhood authors. This story is about how a spider makes it web and the purpose of the web. What I enjoyed the most was, the texture of the web, as it popped out with puffy type paint. It made it realistic and very hands on.

Another great book by Eric Carle. The hardcover addition has a web that is raised so young readers can touch it. Great illustrations. I will read all of Eric Carle's books my future class.

This book revolves around a spider making her web on a farm, and not allowing the different farm animals to distract her from her project. At the end, she is so tired from being so busy, she falls asleep. The illustrations are very colorful and fun, and the added element of a raised-feeling spider

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web on each page adds a great new sense to the book

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The Very Busy Spider was a book about a very hard working spider that was busy spinning her web. While she was working, other animals would visit with her and try and get her to play with them or go with them. The spider just kept working until her job was completed. After she was finished with her

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web, she was much to tired to go with the other animals. All she wanted to do was sleep. After all hard work is exhausting.

I really enjoyed reading this story. I love how it relates the animals with the sounds they make. I also like how the pictures were textured to show the progress that the spider had made with her web. I love all of Eric Carle's books, and am working toward getting his whole collection.

One of the activities that children could do is use a flannel board with different animal pieces that weren't in the story and have the child tell the story with the pieces, from their point of view. Also for a art project, children could make their own spider web out of yarn and make their very own busy spider.

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This book is about a spider who landed on a fence and spun a web all day long. She did not talk to anyone who came her way throughout the day. She just spun her web. When she was done spinning she caught a fly for dinner that had been bugging the rooster. After she was done with everything that day

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the owl wanted her to come and play, but she had already gone to sleep. I would recommend this book to teachers because it teaches students about work ethic.

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A beautifully illustrated book about the life of a spider. It shows the spider spinning a web and also shows lots of different animals and the sounds they make. Would be a great book to explain what and how spiders eat. It also teaches about hard work. The version of the book I read had cool

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illustrations that you could actually feel and touch.

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I think that Eric Carle did a great job in this book because it shows children different types of animals. Not only does this book teach children different animals, but it also teaches them the different sounds that the animals make. I think that children would like this book because most children

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love to learn about different animals and the sounds that they make are fun too!

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This simple story illustrates a spider's diligence in spinning her web while a series of farm animals invite her to stray from her task to play. An embossed web makes this book especially enticing to touch while reading. Text and pictures work beautifully together to create an enticing and

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satisfying reading experience.

baby-6 years

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The Very Busy Spider is a story about a spider who decides to build a web with silky thread. She built it near a farm yard, so there were many animals who often asked if she wanted to do something with them. She never answered them because she was too busy spinning her web. At the end of the busy

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day, the spider had built a beautiful web.

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The sun comes up and a spider begins to spin a web of silky thread. Throughout the day, farm animals approach the very busy spider to ask if she'd like to join them in various leisure activities. But the spider never answers any of them, and continues to busy herself spinning her web. As you turn

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the pages, Eric Carle beautifully illustrates the increasingly detailed web as it nears completion, giving the web a clear-but-silvery color that could almost be real; and, if you run your hand over the page, the strands of the web are slightly raised, so your fingers can feel the added detail of each page. Throughout the book, with each new animal that approaches the spider, there is a fly that finds a place in the scene, an illustration that is also textured. When at last the rooster approaches and asks the spider if she would like to catch a pesky fly, the spider indeed catches the fly with her beautifully completed web, naturally, without a word. When the night falls, the spider is visited for the last time by an owl who insists on asking "Whoo? Whoo?" built the beautiful web? But there is still no answer from the spider, who is fast asleep, exhausted by the day's work.

This is a fantastic book for the infant/toddler or Pre-K crowd, as it's a book made to be touched, creating an interactive story for the audience, while introducing several farm animals and the sounds they make. It is a beautifully constructed and illustrated book, sure to become a favorite of small children who will ask for it again and again.

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The Spider puts off play all day to finish her work.

This wonderfully illustrated book tells the story of the very busy spider who is extremely productive working away at his web. Throughout the story, many different animals come to him and ask him questions, all of which he ignores to keep working on his web. This is a great book for children

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learning animal noises. It also has very bright colors and includes a sense of touch with the raised web on each page, making this a multi-sensory book.

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This is a story of a very busy spider who works very hard on spinning her web. While spinning her web, many different farm animals come along and try to distract her but she is too hard at work to do anything but spin her web. After finishing her web, she catches her dinner-a fly- and then sleeps

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after a long, hard day.

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This book is great for early readers! It has awesome illustrations that will grab the student's attention.

This book is a great beginning book for young readers. It is a good book for students to get engaged in. There are pictures on the pages that students can lift up can see what is underneath the picture (Great for tactile learners!) Many common farm animals are mentioned throughout the story, which

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is a common subject young students can talk about. The moral of the story is also one that every student should be able to learn from. The spider is constantly distracted by the farm animals and has a hard time spinning her web, but she finally pushes through to build a beautiful web.

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The Very Busy Spider is a lift-the-flap fiction book about a spider that is on a fence at a farm. The story is appropriate for early elementary students and this book should not be placed in the classroom library because the flaps would not hold up to the wear and tear of everyday use. I rate this

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book five out of five because it is interesting and has good illustrations that would keep younger students entertained.

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This book tells the story of a spider trying to spin a web, yet she keeps becoming distracted by the various farm animals coming up to bother her while she is hard at work. This story could tie into the idea of persistance and managing time within the classroom. It has great illustrations as well,

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and would be fun to act out with all of the different creatures found throughout the book. It also has great valuable lessons that can be learned from it, and young children should be taught to be aware of these types of ideas in and out of the classroom environment.

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An Eric Carle story about a very busy spider who shows that hard work and persistence pay off. It features very repetitive text, which is great for the learning of sight words in lower elementary grades.

A spider is blown by the wind and lands on a fence post where she begins to start her web. She has several different animals come up to her and ask her if she wants to go do something with her. She is very busy spinning her web and does not even realize they are there. When she finshes her web she

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falls alseep and an owl flys over by her finished web and asked who made the web but the spider was sound asleep and did not answer.

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