'Insects' Home Learning Ideas
Visits and places to explore: (the links in green are free attractions!)
*Please note as much as we encourage these wonderful visits and think they are fantastic learning experiences, if you wish to visit these please do so at weekends or during the holidays - we really don't want your little ones to miss any school learning!*
Activities to do at home: Click on the text below the pictures to find resources and instructions as to how to carry out these lovely minibeast related activities at home.
Counting Ladybirds! Salt Dough Ladybirds! Bug Hotel! Play Dough Story Telling! Bug Discovery!
Great books linked to insects: (books in green can be loaned from Staines or Ashford Library)
- The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson - story book
- Superworm by Julia Donaldson - story book
- Insects by Rod Theodorou - fact file
- Extreme Insects by Richard Jones - fact file
- Insects and minibeasts by Jinny Johnson - fact file
- British Insects by Victoria Munson
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle - story book
- Bad Tempered Ladybird by Eric Carle - story book
- Super Spiders by Charlotte Guillian - fact file
- Minibeasts by Dave Burroughs - story book