Mantis
Mantises got their name from their unusual appearance. They fold their forelimbs as if in prayer. Mantises are known for their fearlessness. They attack the enemy without hesitation. Praying mantises cannot be called large; they reach 10-12 cm in length. But when threatened, they do not run away, but remain in place and try to look larger and more impressive. Praying mantises spread their wings, spread their front legs and stretch upward. In this position they sway frighteningly to the sides. This strategy works even with much larger animals. They prefer not to mess with a creature that looks menacing and does not run away.
Mantises feed on insects, but can also snack on lizards, frogs, and even small snakes. They even eat poisonous spiders and ladybugs. Mantises are safe for humans. But if you make them angry, they can bite you painfully. Mantis eggs are protected by special capsules. They are not afraid of low temperatures or even toxic chemicals.
Butterfly
These graceful fluttering creatures always attract attention. Butterfly wings are very beautiful and children like them. And it’s so easy to catch them by the wings when they sit on flowers. But we need to explain to children that this cannot be done. Butterfly wings are covered with special scales that are easily erased when touched with your fingers. Butterflies with such damage to their wings will not be able to fly and will die.
Butterflies come in different sizes - from very tiny 2 mm in wingspan to giants of 28 cm. Their wings are beautifully painted in a variety of colors and patterns. Butterflies have an unusual, curled proboscis with which they feed. Their food is plant nectar and fruit juice.
Children will be very interested in learning about the life cycle of butterflies. A caterpillar emerges from the egg, which does not at all resemble the future bright beauty. The caterpillar feeds on plants and can eat them in huge quantities. When its time comes, the caterpillar turns into a motionless chrysalis, within which amazing transformations take place over a certain period of time - the caterpillar becomes a butterfly. And soon he leaves the doll house. This process can be observed with children. Bring home a caterpillar, place it in a clear container with enough food, and soon you will see it become a chrysalis and then a butterfly.
Lesson with multimedia presentation “Insects”
(slide 3)Message of new information: acquaintance with the structure of a beetle
The teacher tells the children about the origin of the name “insects”,
suggests looking at the structure of a beetle and naming its body parts
-What is located on the insect’s head?
-How many pairs of legs does an insect have?
(slide 4)
Didactic game “Where do insects live?”
The teacher suggests naming the habitats of insects based on the image
(slide 5)
Guessing the riddle
The teacher asks you to guess the insect that lives in the house?
(slide 6 )
Message about bees
The teacher reports interesting facts from the life of a bee
(slide 7)
Products of bees' labor
The teacher asks you to name what benefits bees bring?
(Slide
Didactic game “Assemble a bee”
The teacher offers to assemble a puzzle of 8 cards and compare with the sample
(Slide 9)
Physical education lesson
(Slide 11)
Guessing the riddle
The teacher suggests answering who lives in such a house?
(Slide 12)
Message about ants
The teacher reports interesting facts about ants
(Slide 13)
Didactic game “Help the ant climb to its friend”
The teacher offers to help the ant and draw the path of the ant to its friend
(Slide 14)
Guessing the riddle
The teacher suggests answering why she was called that?
(Slide 15)
Message about ladybugs
The teacher reports interesting facts about the ladybug
(Slide 16 - 20)
Didactic game “Whose shadow?”
The teacher offers to choose from 3 insects the one whose shadow is depicted
(Slide 21)
Physical education lesson
(Slide 22)
Guessing the riddle
The teacher suggests answering who will emerge from the cocoon?
(Slide 23)
Message about butterflies
The teacher reports interesting facts about the ladybug
(Slide 24-26)
Didactic game “Who’s the odd one out?”
The teacher suggests choosing an extra picture that doesn’t depict an insect.
(Slide 27)
Protecting insects from enemies
The teacher suggests talking about how insects protect themselves from enemies
(Slide 28)
Insect protection
The teacher asks you to think and answer the questions:
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Do we need to protect insects and why? -What can we do for this?
The teacher suggests thinking about if children had the opportunity to turn into insects, then who would they want to turn into and why?
Relaxation. "The Flutter of a Butterfly"
The teacher invites the children to lie down on the mat, close their eyes and remember the insect they liked.
(music sounds)
Imagine a beautiful summer day. You are lying on a green meadow. You feel warm and comfortable, you breathe easily and calmly. Imagine that you are light butterflies with large and beautiful wings. Your arms are light and light—like the wings of a butterfly. And your body also became light, light, flapped its wings and flew. With every inhalation and exhalation you float higher and higher in the air. You feel good and pleased. But now it's time to return home. Stretch and on the count of three, open your eyes. Smile at each other.
Informational resources:
1. Pictures from the site www.Yandex.ru;
2. S.I. Karpov, V.V. Mamaeva “Development of speech and cognitive abilities of preschool children” 6-7 years old S-P, 2010
3. O.A.Skorolupova. Classes for preschool children on the topic: “Insects.” M, 2006
Ant
These insects are very hardworking, friendly and organized. They are always in a hurry and running somewhere. It is very interesting for children to observe the life of an anthill in nature. Ants are very beneficial insects. They cleanse nature of garbage. One ant is stronger than an elephant. Of course, he will not be able to lift the load that an elephant lifts. But an ant can lift a weight that is 10 times its weight. And an elephant cannot even lift a load equal to its weight.
Ants are excellent builders. Their anthills are complex houses with apartments, well-designed ventilation, storage rooms, bedrooms, children's rooms, garbage bins and toilets. Ants strictly maintain cleanliness in their homes. Inlets and outlets serve to supply air inside. They are guarded by soldier ants.
There is a spacious room right under the roof of the anthill, which is the first to be heated by the sun's rays. Ants bask there in the spring. In the depths of the anthill there is a bedroom in which the ants spend the winter. There are separate storerooms for grain and meat food. There is also a “cow barn” with aphids. Ants exploit these insects by eating the sweet substance they secrete. They protect and protect aphids, carry them to the anthill for the winter, and take them out to new succulent plants in the spring.
In the anthill there is a special “royal” room for the ant queen. She is engaged in laying up to 1000-1500 eggs daily. Worker ants take care of it.
Summary of a lesson on ecology in the senior group. Topic: Insects
Summary of a lesson on ecology in the senior group “In the world of insects”
Author: Natalia Aleksandrovna Kovtun, teacher at MBDOU kindergarten “Teremok”, p. Izhevskoe, Ryazan region. Description of the material: This summary may be useful for educators working with children of senior preschool age. You can use this material during the implementation of pedagogical projects about insects in kindergarten.
Goal: In a fun way (using poems, riddles, games) to introduce preschoolers to the world of insects. Objectives: 1. To acquaint children with the essential characteristics of insects, develop the ability to draw conclusions, and establish cause-and-effect relationships between natural objects. 2. Develop an interest in insects and a desire to learn interesting information about them. 3. Cultivate a love of nature, a caring attitude towards all life on Earth. Materials and equipment: homemade puzzles - butterfly, ant, grasshopper (print colorful images of insects on thick A4 sheets and cut into several parts), pictures with images of a ladybug, caterpillar, ant, butterfly, dragonfly, 3 small tables, magnetic board, magnets .
Progress of the lesson:
(Children sit on the carpet)
Educator: Guys, let's imagine that you and I find ourselves in a forest clearing. Who can we meet here? (animals) That's right, but animals are afraid of people and try to avoid them. But there are people in the forest who are not afraid of us. They are very, very small and there are a lot of them everywhere - in the air, on the ground, on trees, flowers. Who do you think it is? (these are insects) Here is a grasshopper crackling in the grass, (Author - V. Leonov) A butterfly is soaring in the sky, A furry, loud, striped bumblebee is buzzing on a flower. Insects fly, jump, crawl, soar, surprise us with their beauty, and also bring benefits! Educator: Guys, what insects do you know? (children's answers) Well done, right! Now, guess the riddles. (after the children guess the riddle, the teacher attaches the corresponding picture to the magnetic board) 1. She is the cutest of all the bugs, Her back is scarlet. The circles on the back are little black dots. (ladybug)
2. He is a real worker, very, very hard-working. Under a pine tree in a dense forest, he builds a house from needles. (ant)
3. She is bright and beautiful. Graceful, light-winged. She looks like a flower and loves to drink flower juice. (butterfly)
4. Hairy, green, she hides in the leaves, although she has many legs, she cannot run. (caterpillar)
5. She has four wings, a thin body like an arrow, and big, big eyes. They call it... (dragonfly)
Educator: Well done, guys! All the riddles were guessed correctly. (the teacher, together with the children, identifies the essential features of insects - six legs, wings, antennae, a jointed body) Educator: You know, guys, insects are the most ancient and numerous inhabitants of our planet.
They appeared many, many millions of years ago and are perfectly adapted to life on Earth. What do you think insects eat? (children's answers) Each insect has its own food. Caterpillars (butterfly larvae) eat leaves, flowers and fruits of plants. There are harmful types of caterpillars, and there are also those that destroy other insect pests and thereby help people. Butterflies collect nectar from flowers and pollinate plants. Ladybugs eat aphids and also bring great benefits. But mosquitoes feed on plant sap and animal blood. Insects are an excellent treat for birds, frogs, lizards and other animals. You can learn a lot about the life of insects. And you can meet them not only in the forest. You've probably already met them. What insects did you see? (children’s answers) Game “Pick a sign”
what kind of butterfly? (beautiful, light) what kind of caterpillar? (green, slow) what ant? (small, hard-working) What kind of bee? (striped, buzzing)
Game “Make an insect”
(children are divided into groups of several people and assemble homemade puzzles on the tables - a butterfly, an ant, a grasshopper)
Physical education
Raise your shoulders, jump, grasshoppers! Jump - hop, jump - hop, sat down, ate some grass, listened to the silence, Higher, higher, higher! Jump on your toes with ease!
Educator: Guys, you should know that there are dangerous insects and learn the rules of behavior when meeting them: If there is a bee, wasp, or bumblebee nearby, you should not wave your arms. You need to step aside and behave calmly. Exposed areas of the body are treated with special insect bite repellents (with the help of adults). If, for example, you are bitten by a bee, you should immediately seek help from adults (parents, teachers). Educator: Guys, what do you think will happen if insects suddenly disappear? (plants and many animals will die) That’s right, because in nature everything is interconnected - some cannot live without others. Insects are part of nature, just like you and me. Therefore, all life on Earth must be preserved and protected! Listen to the poem: There is a huge house on Earth (Author - L. Daineko) Under the blue roof. The sun, rain and thunder, forest and sea surf live in it. Birds and flowers live in it, the cheerful ringing of the stream. You live in that bright house, you and all your friends. Wherever the roads lead, you will always be there. This house is called the nature of our native land. Educator: Guys, did you like our lesson? What new did you learn today?
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Ladybug
Everyone knows the cute red bug with black dots. Surely every child in the summer put a ladybug on his hand and said the rhyme: “Ladybug, fly to the sky, there are your children.” Children will be surprised to learn that this bug is actually a poisonous predator. Ladybugs destroy aphids, dangerous garden pests. They are even distributed in fields and gardens specifically for this purpose.
The red coloration of the ladybug signals to birds and other enemies that it is poisonous. When attacked, she injects a sharp-smelling liquid from her paws. This smell warns predators of danger. Ladybugs also know how to pretend to be dead to save their lives.
Short stories about insects for preschool children
Advice for parents.
Short stories about insects
Dear parents! Read short stories to children about insects, look at pictures or illustrations in books, and talk after reading. Teach children to love nature in any of its manifestations!
Why do bees dance??
The honey bee has a family. It's called a swarm. Sister bees live together. The bee will find a lot of honey and tell the others.
- She can’t speak! It just buzzes. It’s true, he can’t speak, but he can dance.
Bee dance is simple. She flies in a circle or in a figure eight, buzzes loudly and wags her belly. It's as if he's saying:
— I found a lot of honey! Fly after me quickly.
Questions.
- Why is the bee called a honey bee?
- What is the name of a bee colony?
- How does a bee transmit information to other bees?
- Call the bee affectionately.
- What do you call a very big bee, a very small one?..
- Whose wings does the bee have?
Dragonfly
Dragonflies live near water: rivers, streams, lakes. The dragonfly flies very quickly and dodges deftly. The speed is such that it can catch up with a person racing on a bicycle.
Dragonflies are hunters. They have excellent eyesight. Dragonflies fly like helicopters over a pond in search of prey. Their prey is small mosquitoes and midges. A large dragonfly attacks smaller dragonflies. Doesn't disdain the caterpillar.
When a dragonfly flies, it folds its legs into a house. It turns out to be a trap. A mosquito gaped and fell into the house from her tenacious legs. The dragonfly immediately puts it in its mouth.
Dragonflies are beautiful insects. Take care of them. They decorate nature.
Questions.
- Where do dragonflies live?
- What are they eating?
- How does a dragonfly hunt?
- Call the dragonfly affectionately.
- What do you call a very large dragonfly, a very small one?..
- Whose wings does the dragonfly have?
Ladybug
The small ladybug beetle is known to everyone. She has two hard and durable wings of yellow, orange or red color with black dots. And soft wings hide under them.
Upper wings for protection. Lower wings for flight. The ladybug needs to fly, the upper wings rise, the lower ones straighten, and the beetle flies.
Don't hurt the ladybug. She is a faithful friend and helper. In the garden and in greenhouses, pests - aphids - settle on plants. Aphids suck juices from leaves. The leaves dry out, curl up and fall off.
And the ladybug eats aphids, saving the plants. The ladybug is specially bred and released into gardens. There she fights aphids, helping people
Questions.
- Why does a ladybug need different wings?
- What does a beetle eat?
- How do aphids harm plants?
Ants
During the warm season, you can find ants everywhere. They run back and forth about their ant business. They seem so small and stupid. In fact, ants are smart insects. Their brain works like a powerful computer. That's what scientists say.
Ants are powerful insects. An ant lifts a load 50 times heavier than itself.
The little ant will not allow itself to be offended. He sprays formic acid on the offenders. Formic acid is caustic. It even causes burns.
Formic acid is not scary for people. But you cannot touch the ants or destroy anthills. Ants are beneficial insects in the forest.
Questions.
- What is the name of the ant house?
- How does an ant's brain work?
- What does an ant spray on its offenders?
- Call the ant affectionately.
- What do you call a very big ant, a very small one?..
- Whose head does the ant have?
Fly
Everyone knows the fly. She is harmful and annoying. Buzzing, buzzing.
A fly has six legs and four wings.
The wings are transparent. Two front wings for flight. Hind wings for balance in flight. They are called halteres.
The fly has Velcro on its legs. They help the fly to crawl even upside down.
The fly carries various diseases. She crawls everywhere, and dirt and germs stick to her paws. A fly will crawl through a clean place and leave germs on it.
Questions.
- Where does the fly live?
- What kind of wings does a fly have?
- Why can a fly crawl upside down?
- Why does a fly carry various diseases?
- Call the fly affectionately.
- What do you call a very big fly, a very small one?..
Butterflies
Butterflies are the beauty of nature. There are many of them around. The colors of butterflies are different. It pleases our eyes.
Butterflies are small and large. Their body is covered with small scales.
Butterflies feed on the nectar of flowers. They drink it with their proboscis. In the spring, when there are still few flowers, butterflies drink birch or maple sap.
Questions
- What color are the butterflies?
- What size are they?
- What is the body of butterflies covered with?
- What do butterflies eat?
Mosquito
Guess the riddle: “Grey. With two wings. It flies and rings. It bites painfully." A mosquito has a mustache and a proboscis on its head. The mosquito makes no sounds. The ringing comes from mosquito wings. A mosquito flies, and its wings rattle subtly. It turns out to be a ringing sound.
We don't like mosquitoes. A mosquito lands on a person or animal, pierces the skin with its proboscis and drinks blood. Poisonous mosquito saliva will get under your skin. Because of this poison, the bite site itches for a long time. Mosquitoes fly into the heat. It is easier to find warm animals in the evenings and at night. Only mosquitoes bite us. And mosquitoes drink flower nectar. Their proboscis is very thin. They will not bite through thick human skin or animal skin.
Questions
- How many wings does a mosquito have?
- What sound does a mosquito make when it flies?
- Where does this sound come from?
- What do mosquitoes eat?
- How do mosquitoes find someone to bite?
- Why does the bite site itch and itch for a long time?
- Call a mosquito affectionately.
- What do you call a very large mosquito, a very small one?..
- Whose wings does a mosquito have?
Bee
Hardworking bees provide humans with tasty and healthy honey. Their shaggy body is covered with villi and has a striped color. Bees use their long proboscis to suck nectar from plants. They process it and turn it into honey. Bees store honey in honeycombs. In the cold season it serves as food for them. To ensure a well-fed winter, bees work tirelessly all winter and summer.
Bees live in large hive families of several thousand insects. Each family member has his own responsibilities. The “queen” lays eggs, builders build honeycombs, workers collect nectar, deal with larvae and guard the hive. Bees build their houses from wax. They make honeycombs out of it with cells in the shape of regular hexagons. The cells are connected to each other and are all the same size, as if the bees were using a ruler.
People obtain honey in a way that does not harm the bees. They only take a small portion of the honey from the hive. Previously, bees were only wild. To get honey, people had to look for bee houses in the forest. It's difficult and long. Then they came up with the idea of cutting down trees with hollows inhabited by bees and placing them in a convenient place. And after that, people began to build special houses for bees - hives - and populate them there. A bee city of hives is called an apiary.
Bees have a stinger and they bite very painfully. But they always do this only for protection. There is no need to be afraid of bees, but you should treat them with caution and respect.
Summary of the integrated lesson “Insects”
This summary was developed by me for the final lesson. The purpose of this integrated lesson is to identify the level of development of children in the educational program of a preschool educational institution in accordance with age characteristics.
Cognitive development:
- generalize and consolidate children’s knowledge about insects, introduce them to the distinctive features of their appearance.
- generalize and consolidate children’s knowledge about the seasons and their main features.
- consolidate knowledge of ordinal counting, color, size; consolidate the ability to compare objects by superposition (more, less, the same).
— to cultivate a desire to take care of nature, to treat the surrounding natural world with care.
— instill rules of safe behavior in the natural world.
Speech development:
— strengthen children’s ability to answer questions and correctly coordinate words in a sentence.
- promote the development of speaking and listening skills.
- promote the development of coherent speech and enrichment of vocabulary.
— to promote interest in the literary word, the development of a poetic ear, and the ability to convey one’s attitude to the content of a poem using intonation.
- promote the development of memory, thinking and imagination.
Physical development:
— promote the development of physical qualities: coordination, flexibility, speed of reaction.
- promote the formation of positive emotions and activity in physical activity in children.
Material: pictures on the theme “Spring”, pictures “Insects”, stencils of flowers (on a magnetic board) and butterflies (before class, place in the group in “visible” places: door, walls, shelves for toys), bell.
Progress of the lesson.
(Children sit on chairs in a semicircle, with “Insects” cards placed in front of them.)
- Guys, today we will go on a trip to a magical land, to a magical meadow of Flowers. But to get to this magical land, we must hear a magical ringing. And for this we need to answer the questions correctly.
— Tell me, please, what time of year is it? (Spring.)
- What time of year was it before spring? (Winter.)
— How does winter differ from other seasons (Cold, frost, snow.)
— What happened to the snow in spring? (Melted.)
(After the children’s answers, pictures are placed on the magnetic board: 1. Melting snow. 2. Emerging grass. 3. Blooming leaves on trees. 4 Flowers.)
- What happens to the snow then? (The sun is heating up more, the puddles are drying up.)
— What happens next to nature? (Grass appears, leaves bloom, grass appears.)
Let's remember the poem about spring:
The grass is greener, the sun is shining,
A swallow flies towards us with spring in the canopy.
— Guys, who is the poem talking about? (About the swallow.)
- Why did she come in the spring? (Because she spent the winter in warm regions and flew to us when it became warm.)
— That’s right, in the spring, when it gets warm, everything comes to life. Grass appears, leaves on the trees, flowers, birds fly in and fill the forest with their singing. And guys, insects appear in the spring. After all, most insects are food for birds. Insects are very small, and often we don't notice them. But today we have a magical day, and with the help of a magic wand I managed to make the insects in my pictures large, and now we can look at them.
(Pictures with images of insects are examined, children name them in order.)
When looking at a ladybug, children remember the poem, repeating the movements after the teacher.
Ladybug (palms pressed together, forming a “boat”, sway from side to side)
Fly to the sky (hands rise up and spread apart)
Bring us bread:
Black and white (showing right palm, then left)
Just not burnt (with the index finger - “no”)
Grasshopper - remember the song, first verse
- Why is a grasshopper compared to a cucumber? (Showing a dummy cucumber) Are they similar? (No. They are different. A cucumber is a vegetable. And a grasshopper is an insect, they are just both green.)
Bee.
As a rule, most insects cannot harm humans. Small, harmless insects. There is no need to crush them, collect them in jars, or catch them with nets. It's part of nature. They serve as food for birds and animals, and participate in soil formation and pollination of plants. And the bee benefits humans. After all, people get tasty and very healthy honey from bees. A bee can bite a person. Its bite is very painful.
- What should you do if you see a bee? (Do not wave your arms, move away from the bee without attracting attention.)
Insects have a head, chest, abdomen, antennae, wings and legs. Let's count how many legs a ladybug, dragonfly, or fly have. Insects have six legs.
(The picture with the butterfly is considered the last one.)
Guys, this is an unusual butterfly - but a magical one. She flew to invite us to a magical land, to a clearing of the most beautiful flowers. Can you hear the ringing of the magic bell? We have answered all the questions, and now we can get into a magical land. And we will sail on a magic boat. (Children get up and remove their chairs.)
I will press two palms,
And I will sail across the sea. (Press both palms together, without connecting your thumbs.)
Two palms, friends,
- This is my boat. (Make wave-like movements with your hands - “the boat floats.”)
I will raise the sails, (Hands joined together in a “boat” shape, raise your thumbs up.)
I'll swim in the blue sea. (Continue wave-like movements with your hands - “boat”.)
And along the stormy waves (Wave-like movements with the hands, first with the right, then with the left.)
Fish swim here and there.
(The teacher unfolds the magnetic board, there are flowers on it.)
Look, we found ourselves in a magical clearing. And here are the most beautiful flowers. And you and I should turn into very beautiful butterflies.
In the morning the butterfly woke up
She stretched and smiled.
Once - she washed herself with dew.
Two - she spun gracefully.
Three - she bent down and sat down.
At four, it flew. (Children, imitating the smooth movements of butterflies, move in different directions.)
A strong wind blew and our butterflies flew away. Guys, let's find the butterflies and return them to the magic meadow. Look carefully where our butterflies hid from the wind. (Children find butterflies. Each child names a color and uses a magnet to place the butterfly on the flower.)
Well, all the butterflies have returned to their beautiful flowers. Guys, do butterflies sit on all flowers? (No.)
— How many free flowers are left? (Two.)
- What more? (There are more flowers, but fewer butterflies.)
Let's imagine that our chairs are flowers. Butterflies return to their flowers. (The outdoor game “Day and Night” is played.)
Hear the magic bell ringing. Which means it’s time for us to return home. And we will return by train. (The children line up behind the teacher, and the “locomotive” rides through the group to the words: Steam locomotive, steam locomotive, it has a lot of wheels. Chug-chug, Tuuuuu, Chuh-chug, Tuuuuu.
Our journey to a magical land to a wonderful meadow of flowers and beautiful butterflies is over.
Wasp
Wasps are similar to bees, but they are completely different insects. They also love sweets and feed on flower nectar and fruits. But they don’t know how to make honey. Sensing something sweet, the wasps immediately fly away. Therefore, when relaxing in nature, you need to be careful. A wasp sting is very painful. The insect stings if you accidentally crush or step on it.
Wasps hang their houses on tree branches or in attics. They make them from paper. Wasps scrape wood with their jaws and mix it with their saliva. From these lumps they make thin strips of paper, from which they build multi-layered, durable and warm houses. The female wasp lays eggs in them. And the rest of the wasps take care of the larvae that emerge from them. Under no circumstances should you touch wasp housing. The insects immediately rush to their defense and attack.
Developmental tasks
A task to develop fine motor skills of the fingers. Learning to cut.
Print out the insects page for kids and have them cut along the dotted lines.
Introduce your child to the insects in the picture, discuss which ones fly, which ones crawl, which ones live underground, which ones live in the sky and on the ground, what these insects eat, what benefits they bring to people, etc.
Learning to count with insects for children.
Learning to count by tens. Cut into cards and count with your child.
Logical game with insects for children.
Build a logical chain of beetles. Cut out cards with beetles separately and invite your child to continue the logical chain with insects for children.
Here you need to circle the dotted lines.
A game to develop fine motor skills of a child's fingers.
We compose a story based on pictures about insects for children. Poems and stories about insects can also help here.
A game to develop speech in children.
Insect cube for children. Creative task. Print, cut the cube and glue it together with your child. Now you can play. Throw the dice and name the insect that the child comes across.
A game to develop fine motor skills of the fingers. Here you need to draw a dotted line and help the insects get to the leaves.
Creative activity with a caterpillar for children. These are coloring pages where you need to paint a cute insect caterpillar for children. Coloring pages are very useful: they develop fine motor skills and prepare the hand for writing.
We teach the correct use of prepositions with children. Card game with insects for children.
We learn prepositions FOR, ON, NEAR.
Learning to sort insects.
Montessori sorting game. Cut the cards and sort insects and flowers into 2 columns.
Here you need to find geometric shapes hidden in insects and plants.
A game to develop mindfulness. Here you need to find the extra object in each line.
Mathematical and attentive game: “Where is the dragonfly hiding?”
Print out the material, cut it into cards, hide, for example, a dragonfly under a piece of paper with number 1, so that it is slightly visible, and ask the child what number the dragonfly is hiding under the piece of paper with which number, etc. If the child does not yet know the numbers, you can simply hide the dragonfly and find it yourself and say under which leaf it was hidden. A very good, exciting game for developing mathematical abilities.
Puzzles
They will help develop ingenuity and intelligence. Riddles are a description by which you need to guess about an insect.
Interesting Facts
encyclopedia. Here is a collection of fascinating information about insects. A children's encyclopedia and fun facts will be useful for children's erudition.
Poetry
They will help to interest the baby and promote speech development.
A selection of good riddles about insects for children.
Fairy tales
Many fairy tales have been invented about insects, among the most famous are “The Cockroach”, “The Cluttering Fly”, “How an Ant Hurried Home”, “Luntik”, “The Tale of a Little Boat” and others.
Here is a modern fairy tale about a snail:
Videos and presentations
It can be used both in a lesson at school and in kindergarten.
Presentations about insects:
- bloodsucking,
- homemade,
- bees and ants
Coloring pages
Coloring page with insects in English.
How to mold from plasticine?
Detailed instructions on how to make insects from plasticine - a grasshopper and a beetle (step by step):
Crossword
Grasshopper
It is not easy to spot a green grasshopper in the grass. You can only hear its loud chirping. Grasshoppers have a slender body, long antennae and powerful legs, with which they can jump very high. Their ears are located on their legs. And grasshoppers “sing” using their wings. They rub them against each other, like a bow against the strings of a violin, and the result is a loud chirping sound. Grasshoppers, seemingly harmless at first glance, are predators. They hunt butterflies, flies, and insect larvae. Grasshoppers escape from their enemies with the help of protective coloring and dexterity. In summer, females hide their eggs in the ground. In the spring, larvae will emerge from them, which will soon become grasshoppers.
Lesson 49 "Insects"
Today I tried to do a themed day for the first time. Our theme was “Insects”.
1. First, we looked at insects in the book “I Play and Learn” and in the SSG magazine “My First Dictionary” and laid out cards with insects.
2. Bee and mosquito (from 2-3 years old)
You can depict a mosquito in the same way, only you should not “buzz”, but pronounce the sound for a long time: “Z-z-z...” When portraying a mosquito, read the rhyme to your child: A mosquito is flying above me, Squeaking right in my ear. He won't miss the opportunity - he'll sit down and bite. Pretend that the mosquito wants to “bite” the child. To do this, touch the baby with your index finger and continue to “ring.” Let the child also pretend to be a mosquito and try to “bite” you. Next time, ask who you are impersonating, a bee or a mosquito. To do this, show a finger game and pronounce the sound Z or Z for a long time. Let the child determine what kind of insect it is
Ilya didn’t want to portray a mosquito, he liked the one about the bee better, but he rotated, of course, not with his finger, but with his whole hand.
3. Catching mosquitoes
The child stands straight with his arms down. Now tell us that mosquitoes have flown up to you, we will catch them. We clap our hands alternately in front of ourselves and above our heads - 3-4 times.
4. Stickers were applied. First, I let Ilya glue the sun, then flowers on the grass, and then insects. Along the way, she told me that flowers grow in the grass, and insects fly in the sky.
5. Playing with clothespins. Catch a bug
Take colorful clothespins and attach them in different places in the room - on tablecloths, on the sofa, on curtains, etc. Tell your child that bugs have arrived. But they decided to play hide and seek with us. Let's find them together and put them in a box. If the baby didn’t see where they sat, tell him with the words “hot - cold.”
I read a lot about the benefits of clothespins, but somehow I never got around to it before and we didn’t play with them. In the summer, I showed Ilya on the street how to attach a clothespin to a rope. And today my son became so interested and caught them everywhere.
6. Fly, butterfly!
Target:
development of prolonged continuous oral exhalation; activation of the labial muscles.
Equipment:
2-3 bright paper butterflies.
Progress of the game:
Before starting the lesson, tie a thread 20-40 cm long to each butterfly, attach the threads to the cord at some distance from each other. Pull the cord so that the butterflies hang at the level of the standing child’s face.
The teacher shows the child butterflies and invites them to play with them.
- Look how beautiful the colorful butterflies are! Let's see if they can fly. The teacher blows on butterflies. - Look, they're flying! How alive! Now you try to blow. Which butterfly will fly farthest?
The child stands near the butterflies and blows on them. It is necessary to ensure that the child stands straight, does not raise his shoulders when exhaling, blows on one exhalation without taking in air, does not puff out his cheeks, and slightly pushes his lips forward.
You can blow for no more than 10 seconds with pauses to avoid dizziness.
The son did not want to blow on the butterflies, but simply pulled them and tore them off.
7. Fairy tale on flannelgraph. “A fungus grew in the clearing”
The board is still not ready, so I wrapped flannel around the sofa cushion. Ilya didn’t want to listen to the fairy tale and we just clicked on the pictures and I showed and named the insects.
8. From our treasure box, I chose insects and we looked at them, putting butterflies to butterflies, ladybugs to ladybugs.
9. From our game “Where is whose house?” I chose insects.
10. We made butterflies from halves.
11. Charging “Butterfly”
In the morning the butterfly woke up, smiled, stretched, once - it washed itself with dew, two - it circled gracefully, three - it bent down and sat down, four - it flew away.
Ilyushka didn’t want to show it. Then we just started running with him and flapping our arms like a butterfly's wings. Sometimes I would say, “The butterflies landed on a flower,” and we would squat and then run again.
We also jumped on the sofa cushions. I decided that they were like grasshoppers.
12. Big-small. I printed some insects in two sizes. I just didn’t have time to color it. I placed two cardboard sheets A4 and A5 in front of Ilya. She said that large insects live in a large house, and small ones in a small one. I gave my son one pair each. He laid out three pairs, and then he got tired of it.
13. We made an applique “Bugs” from an album on creativity
I sculpted almost all the plasticine, as my son quickly got tired of it, but he pressed the cereal on his own.
Dragonfly
Dragonflies are very ancient insects. They appeared about 350 million years ago. Swift and fast, they are created by nature to hunt and attack. They fly incredibly fast and are able to change the direction of their movement with lightning speed. This can often be seen in the summer. Dragonflies land anywhere very rarely. They spend almost their entire lives in flight; their legs are not at all adapted for walking. And they fly at the speed of a car - up to 14 km/h! Dragonflies can control their two pairs of wings independently. They can fly forward, backward, sideways and hover in place. Dragonflies have simply huge eyes, which consist of 28 thousand individual eyes. These insects are very voracious. In just an hour they can catch and eat up to 40 flies!
Mosquito
These biting flying insects are familiar to every child. Not a single summer is complete without itchy bite marks, which cause a lot of anxiety for children. It is interesting that only female mosquitoes bite. Males are absolutely harmless and feed on plant nectar. When a female mosquito bites, it injects saliva into our skin, which contains special substances that slow down blood clotting. It is this that causes redness, swelling, itching, and in some, a severe allergic reaction.
The squeak of mosquitoes is created by the rattling of their wings. Mosquitoes live only 1-2 months. During this period, females drink 5-7 times more blood than their own weight and lay up to 300 eggs. Eggs develop in stagnant water. Air-breathing larvae emerge from them. That's why they float on the surface of the water. The larvae then turn into pupae, from which mosquitoes then emerge.
Firefly
The flashes of these bugs on a summer night give a feeling of magic and wonder. The glow is produced by a special chemical reaction in the firefly's body. Their light comes in red-yellow and green shades, of varying duration and brightness. And they can glow in different ways. The glow can be continuous, intermittent, pulsating, or flashing. In different species, males, females, or both glow. Fireflies are predators and hunt other insects.
Bugs and spiders: the life of insects in children's books
Gnomes and fairies are not the only small creatures about which children eagerly read fairy tales. Bugs, worms and spiders also become objects of close attention and interest. While many adults are uncomfortable with the idea of landing a caterpillar on their hand or studying a huge fly on glass for a long time, children look at the world of insects without prejudice.
The desire to look at macro photography of frighteningly big-eyed dragonflies or spider legs covered with tiny fibers comes at an older age. And kids enjoy listening to “The Tsokotukha Fly” or reading about the adventures of an ant, and their attention is not at all focused on the appearance of the heroes. Moreover, illustrators smooth out the corners: they depict insects as looking like little fairy-tale folk.
So why do insects turn out to be heroes, interesting on a par with lions or animate toys?
First of all, they are incredibly small. The biggest bumblebee will still fit in a matchbox! The world of insects is completely different; it is not so easy to see with your own eyes. The beauty of the adventures of Karik and Valya, as well as the incredible transformations of Barankin and Malinin, is that they personally see the world around them the way a spider or butterfly sees it. Incredibly huge and full of quirky little details.
Small living creatures and insects become a fertile background for talking about respect for nature, as in Eduard Shim’s story “A Beetle on a String.” For the hero Viktor Dragunsky, a firefly in a box turns out to be more valuable than a favorite toy, because it looks like a miracle, a little star. And also because, unlike a plastic dump truck, it is alive and glows.
Roald Dahl turns the usual course of history about the interpenetration of the human world and the world of insects. Usually people get tiny and get to know the insects better, but in James and the Wonder Peach it is the insects that grow to enormous sizes. It turns out to be fun to be friends with them: the main character can settle a centipede on the sofa or talk with a huge grasshopper... The main thing is that his life certainly can no longer be called boring!
Secondly, they are mysterious. An anthill or a beehive is arranged according to a strict pattern, and each member of the insect society copes with its tasks easily and confidently. The authors play on the inherent traits of certain insects and tell stories about sports competitions (“Report from the Jucamo Stadium” by V. Bianchi) or about hardworking ants constantly engaged in some active activity (“Ants Don’t Give Up” by O. Secor). Eric Carle makes the caterpillar's gluttony an occasion for a story about flowers, various vegetables and fruits, about the life cycle of a butterfly, and at the same time about the fact that overeating is harmful.
In the fairy tales of Yuri Dmitriev, the inquisitive young Mushonok gets acquainted with many representatives of the insect world, studying which legs, wings and eyes are which. On his way he meets water striders, spiders, butterflies and beetles. They all look different, behave differently, and the structure of their bodies is directly related to their habitat and main activities.
Thirdly, whatever one may say, spiders and insects are very creepy creatures, and this trait also turns out to be attractive to those who are gradually exploring the world. An ominous spider destroys the idyllic holiday of the Fly-Tsokotukha (and is defeated by the brave Komarik), the same eight-legged villain kidnaps Bibigon from another fairy tale by Chukovsky (and is also left with his nose). The queen bee from the fairy tale of the same name by Grigory Dikov retains her sharp, stinging character. A strange meeting took place with Kuzma: it so happened that he, without knowing it, promised to marry the queen of the bees, but in fact he loves someone else. But Kuzma, like a real hero of a Russian fairy tale, defeated her with cunning and knowledge of bees’ characteristics and habits.
Of course, heroes do not remain in one role. The spider Charlotte from the book by Alvin Brooks White cares about her friends and tries to help them in every possible way. And the red-haired and mustachioed Cockroach, whom all animals were afraid of, is now not necessarily a negative hero. In Arbenin’s book “On Cockroach Paths,” Cockroach is one of the main characters, along with Bedbug. Insects, which we rightly dislike in everyday life, evoke empathy in the reader, because their journey through the apartment is fraught with many dangers! And these characters are endowed with the most human qualities and character traits.
Be that as it may, the world of insects can bewitch. In Tatyana Mavrina’s illustrations for Yuri Koval’s stories, golden and blue swallowtails and soft blue wrens resemble flowers in their beauty. But they are still lighter and more airy, which is why they flutter over the field, not tied to the ground. And here is a caterpillar of a female bear crawling along a sandy path. Very soon she will become a beautiful night butterfly, but now she is enjoying the silence of the forest. Mavrina’s drawings are incredibly picturesque, and large colored strokes convey the features of the pattern on the wings so accurately that not a single insectologist will find anything to complain about.
Classic children's stories about insects - like many fairy tales, in fact, are about people and the relationships between them. About how important it is to be honest, kind, and responsive. Modern stories also find little heroes, and the moral side remains just as important in new stories.
“Superworm” by Julia Donaldson is a tribute to popular heroes with incredible abilities, however, his main superpower is the desire to help his neighbor. It saves bugs and frogs thanks to its length and elasticity, and in its free time it can easily turn into a jump rope for little bees. He has many friends - and they come to the rescue when the superworm cannot free himself from the spell of the evil lizard witch.
Modern beetles can also be artists, like Marvin from Alice Broach’s book “Masterpiece,” and solve fascinating detective mysteries along with their great friends - eleven-year-old boys.
Chafer
In the spring, in May, large beetles appear in the green forest. Their backs look like smooth brown acorns. They are called May beetles or beetles. They live only one month, during which they lay eggs. Khrushchi are dangerous pests. Their larvae live in the ground, large, with powerful jaws. They feed on plant roots. The larvae live in the ground for 3-4 years and during this time they eat everything around them. Where there are many larvae, the plants dry out and die. The larva turns into a pupa, and in the spring into an adult beetle. He breaks his way and flies up to freedom.
stick insect
Amazing and unusual insects. They live mainly in the tropics and are exotic for our area. They really look like sticks in appearance and color. But there are species that look like pieces of bark and leaves. They are even classified as a special class - ghosts. Stick insects can range in size from 2 cm to 35 cm in length. These insects are ideally suited for camouflage. Even when moving, they slowly sway to the sides, like branches swaying in the wind. And at the slightest danger they freeze in place. A frozen stick insect cannot be distinguished from the surrounding nature at all. Predators do not perceive it as prey and leave. Stick insects feed on plant leaves, fruits, and berries.
In a cruel world where all insects fight for their lives, stick insects have chosen their path. They are not aggressive, they do not have sharp teeth or claws, and they cannot run fast. Their only method of defense is to be invisible and live a quiet life in the surrounding vegetation.
Draw children's attention to the world around them, to the insects that exist in nature. And such as stick insects, butterflies, large beetles can be seen in special zoos with insects - insectariums. Watching them is very interesting and educational. Children learn to understand and protect nature and treat every insect, even the smallest one, with respect. After all, every insect is needed on our planet for some reason.
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Conversation for older preschoolers “Journey to the world of insects”
Our big planet Earth is very hospitable.
It contains millions of creatures, including not only humans. Let's tell children something interesting about insects. Tell me, is it possible to imagine our life without insects? They were one of the first to appear on our planet, and this was several thousand years before dinosaurs! Regardless of what feelings they evoke in you, they surround us everywhere: in nature, and even at home. Let's go out to the park or maybe the forest. Many insects hide from us under the leaves of trees, in the bark of a tree, or underground. Who are insects There are countless insects on earth. This is the most numerous and diverse class of animals. These include hard-working bees, bumblebees, wasps, grasshoppers, all kinds of beetles, flies, dragonflies... Insects have a number of distinctive features, the presence of which classifies them as their species. Conventionally, they can be divided as follows: • The word “insects” itself comes from the word “incise” and literally means “an animal with notches.” All insects have notches. It looks as if the insect's body is divided into separate joints. • The body of an insect consists of three parts - head, thorax and abdomen. • All insects have 6 legs and wings. Attention: centipedes and spiders are NOT insects. There are about three million species of insects in nature, but scientists have studied only about a million. The number of insects exceeds the number of all animals and fish on earth and even people. Can you imagine how many there are? Let's talk about some of them separately. And it is best to introduce children to insects through their pleasant representatives. Butterfly
Let's start with the most beautiful species - Butterflies. Butterflies feed on the nectar of flowers, thereby pollinating plants. The butterfly is known for its amazing metamorphoses. In the summer season, they lay eggs in the ground or on plants, from which the caterpillar hatches; after a while, the caterpillar enters the pupa stage (this is a small cocoon in which the future butterfly develops). The cocoon hangs practically motionless until the fruit ripens, and then a beautiful butterfly hatches. Dragonfly
The dragonfly is an equally beautiful insect in nature. You can meet a dragonfly in the summer, on the shore of a reservoir. They come in different colors: black, white, blue and green. The dragonfly has 4 wings, two of which are slightly longer; they serve as its controls, literally like a steering wheel in a car. The eyes of a dragonfly are facets, shimmer with all the colors of the rainbow and occupy almost the entire space of the head; they consist of small eyes. There are approximately 28 thousand of them! Ladybug In nature, it is not difficult to recognize this insect. Even the smallest child is friends with the ladybug. Probably, each of us said: “Ladybug, Fly to heaven, There your children eat candy, They give it to everyone, but they don’t give it to you.” It turns out that the ladybug is not so harmless. She is a predator, feeding on aphids, crickets, spiders and other insects that harm plants. This type of beetle brings great benefits to our nature. Ant
One of the social insects. The ant's head, chest and abdomen are connected by a thin stalk; it has six legs and a pair of jaws, which are used for grinding food and protecting it from enemies. Ants live in flocks, each of them is divided into castes that perform their own functions: they build a nest, get food, breed offspring, and some types of ants have their own castes of soldiers, they are distinguished by especially large jaws. Bee
This is one of those insects that bring invaluable benefits to humans. They are loved by many... And internationally recognized as the most hardworking insects. The bee's body is painted in black and yellow stripes, there are wings and a proboscis, with which they collect nectar (and, with the help of special saliva, turn it into honey). Every bee has a stinger, which is located in the back of the body; it serves for protection. When a bee thrusts its sting into an enemy, the sting remains in the victim, and the bee dies. Wasp The wasp is a close relative of bees. Wasps are slimmer than bees and are lighter in color. Unlike a bee, a wasp can sting many times without sacrificing its life. Wasps also live alone, mainly in burrows on the ground, in tree trunks, or under the eaves of buildings. To reproduce, the wasp pushes a fly or spider into the nest, paralyzes it with its sting and leaves a larva on the victim, which eats this victim as it develops. Fly
This is the insect that most often flies to visit us. The fly is black or brown with a blue or green tint. She has two large eyes, which are divided into 4 thousand facets, and small fluffy antennae that serve her to detect food. Flies taste food with the help of their paw; it is with their paw that they feel the taste and understand whether the food is edible or not. In fact, flies are very dangerous for people; they carry a bunch of infections (typhoid, anthrax, tuberculosis and much more). They can carry the infection 20-25 kilometers. Grasshopper
These are green insects that hide in thick grass. They have large paws that allow them to jump high. It is noteworthy that the grasshopper’s legs contain a hearing organ. Grasshoppers feed on grass and fruits. But there are species of grasshoppers that eat small insects. Author: Lyudmila Potsepun
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