Miss Spider's Tea Party

What's a sociable spider to do when no one will accept her invitations to tea? Seemingly unaware of her own predatory reputation, the eponymous arachnid is perplexed and saddened when a parade of potential guests scuttles, scampers and scurries away "in mortal dread." A timely rainstorm provides the perfect opportunity for Miss Spider to prove her good intentions, however, as she lovingly nurtures a rain-soaked moth with sweets and warm brew. Good news travels quickly, and before long her web is abuzz with a full-scale tea party. "Her friends were glad to watch her feast / Upon the floral centerpiece. / It was a great relief to see / She ate just flowers and drank just tea."

I rated this book a five out of five because the story line is well done and the illustrations are great. This book talks about insects without directly coming out and talking specifically about them. It also rhymes which I think would keep the children interested in the story. The story is about a spider that is not given a chance because she is a spider and everyone is scared of her. Everyone comes to find out though that Miss spider is a very nice spider.

Summary: A sweet little spider wishes that the animals that get caught in her web would stay and have some tea with her, but everyone is scared of her. Finally the spider gets a chance to help a moth who is wet and cold. The moth goes off and tells all the other animals that the spider is sweet.

Personal Reaction: I liked this book because it relates to friendships in schools really well. People are always judging others by what they look like, not whats on the inside. This may teach children that it is better to get to know someone before judging them.

Classroom Extension Idea:
1.You can use this book to introduce a lesson on moods and feelings. Have them write five things that they think the spider felt when no one would be her friend show more and when everyone wanted to be her friend.
2.It's always fun meeting new people or getting to know someone better, so you can have the students go around the classroom and get to know their classmates better and tell a little about themselves as well. show less

Summary:

Miss Spider’s Tea Party is about a lady spider who wishes she had friends to spend time with and a drink tea with. She encounters a lot of different bugs and tries to extend invitations to sup with her and drink tea but the bugs would always be afraid and turn her invite down. One night during a thunderstorm nine moths were waiting for the storm to pass, the lady spider invited them to tea but the moths just flew away. However one of the moths wings were too wet to fly, so the lady spider fed him and served him tea and when his wings were dry enough she helped him fly away. The moth went back and told all of the bugs that were afraid of the spider about her hospitality. All the bugs came to eat with her and drink tea; they show more were also glad that the lady spider only ate flowers and drank tea.

Personal Reaction:

How many times have we’ve judge someone without taking out the time to really get to know them? My mind can’t help but wonder all the potential friendships I could have missed out on because of this. We single people out with what we think we know about them, but I wonder how many times have we’ve been wrong? This story puts a lot of things in perspective and I really enjoyed reading this book. This was a great story.

Extension Ideas:

1. Reading this story is great at Halloween time; students can make spiders to hang in the classroom as Halloween decor.

2. Student will be assigned to a student that they never or rarely talk to and the student will interview that person to get to know them. The student will compare their likes and dislikes to see how much they have in common with their assigned partner. show less

This book is about a spider who enjoys to make tea and would love to have company to enjoy it with her. The only problem is, all the guests that stop by think Miss Spider will eat them. Little do they know, Miss Spider only eats flowers and drinks tea. Miss Spider cries and sobs because she is so lonely and has a table set for guests but no one would give her a chance. Then one day it was raining and a moth was drenched with water and could not fly. Miss Spider helped nurish this moth with cake and tea until he could fly again. The moth spread the word throughout all the insects and Miss Spider had so many guest to join her for tea.

This book is very cute and the color and illustrations are beautiful. I really enjoyed this book and I show more hope many children would too.

In a classroom, I think children could learn from this book as some what a moral. They can learn to not judge a book by it's cover. In other words, don't judge someone by what you think they do. We could also do an art activity with this book by having the children create their own spider. Supplies: Different color cotton balls for the body, wiggle eyes, and pipe cleaners for the legs. show less

This book is about a lonely spider who just wanted company over for a cup of tea. Every insect she approached to invite to a tea party would get dreadfully scared and run away. A thankful moth told every insect about Miss Spider's good deed and suddenly she had many friends over for tea.

I thought this was a very cute book and it had great illustrations. It was very bright and that alone would capture children's attention. It had a great underlying meaning that would be beneficial for any teacher to point out.

I would use this book to start a discussion. This discussion would include how it is not right to judge someone before you get to know them. I love art so I would incorporate some kind of art project into this lesson.

Miss Spider's Tea Party is a counting book about a nice spider who is trying to throw a tea party. However, all of the bugs are afraid that she will eat them so they refuse to drink tea with her. One day, a moth gets caught in the rain and can no longer fly. Miss Spider takes the moth in and gives him a cup of tea. From then on, bugs are no longer afraid to drink tea with the spider.

The pictures in this book were amazing. They were so bright and colorful. I think that children would be instantly drawn to those pictures. This is also a good book for young children to use to learn how to count.

One extension idea would be to give every student in the class a different number. The students would have to draw that amound of insects to go show more to Miss Spider's tea party. This is also a good book to teach young children about judging people. Teach them that you should not judge a person until you get a chance to know them. show less