- Room set up:
Bug posters and pictures
Playdough and insect body parts
Felt bugs
Magnetic bugs
Ick Ack Bug (Tic Tac Doh)
Big Plastic bugs in the library
Bug specimens to view with magnifying glasses
Bug bottles to shake and see bugs

- Live critters:  Meal worms, doodlebugs and crickets are good live specimens 
  to have on hand for student to observe. 
  (A spider is an insect.  Why?)

- Vocabulary:  abdomen, antenna, exoskeleton, head, thorax

- Books:
Bugs (Mix and Match)   by Sally Rose
Bug Dance   by Stuart J. Murphy
Bugs Are Insects   by Anne Rockwell
Drip, Drop, Drip!   by Janelle Cherrington
I Wonder Why Spiders Spin   Webs  by Amanda O'Neill
One Hundred Hungry Ants  by Bonnie MacKain
The Best Bug Parade   by Stuart J. Murphy
These Are My Pets   by Mercer Mayer
Underfoot   By David M. Schwartz
When the Fly Flew In...   by Lisa Westberg Peters
Where Is It?   by Judy Nayer


 
- Carry over to classroom project:  Build a habitat for a local insect... 
  or order ladybugs.
   

- Other links:
Bug Body Song
Cicada Song
Cricket Song
Ladybug Song
Lady Bug Fingerplay
Crickets at the EZLab