After-reading Activities

1.) For the first after-reading activity students will go to this link:

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/02/28/bug-of-the-month-march-2009-masked-hunter/

Students will then identify the "Bug of the Month" and highlight the important information by finding the main points in the section.  Children will then write a paragraph or two describing the main points about the bug.  Children may need to use other internet resources to find more information on bug; such as Google or yahoo search engines.  The "Bug of the Month" for the month of March is the Masked Hunter.

2.)  The second after-reading activity students will go to the following link:

http://www.insects.org/entophiles/index.html

Students will follow along with book and identify each bug in every picture of the book.  Bugs can be identified as ants, bees, flies, true bugs, mantids, beetles, cockroaches, grasshoppers, and so on.  Students will need to correctly identify the bugs that are in the illustrations from the book and give reason for why they believe this is  that bug.  Characteristics such as length, head shape, body shape and other characteristics are easily identifiable from this website.