A Note From The

Spider Man

To: The Kids on Bus #25

From: The Spider Man

Dear Kids:

Thank you for your nice note and drawing about Halloween. I’m glad you enjoyed passing the spider every day on your bus ride to school. It was fun for us too!

Your note says you especially liked the life cycle. I didn’t realize we were teaching the life cycle. It’s called the law of unintended consequences. We just wanted to put the spider web up early so we wouldn’t have so much work to do on Halloween day. Adding the egg and seeing it start to hatch just seemed like a fun thing to do while we waited for Halloween. I guess you know that a thousand spiderlings should have hatched instead of just one. That might be an idea for next year.

Here’s some more information about spiders written by Mary Ann Hoberman in her poem called, fittingly enough, “Spiders.”

 

Spiders seldom see too well.

Spiders have no sense of smell.

Spiders spin out silken threads.

Spiders don’t have separate heads.

Spiders bodies are two-part.

Spider webs are works of art.

Spiders don’t have any wings.

Spiders live on living things.

Spiders always have eight legs.

Spiders hatch straight out of eggs.

Since all these facts are surely so:

Spiders are not insect, no!

Spiders are really Arachnids. I bet you knew that didn’t you?

Sincerely,

Richard Mulligan

Spider Man

74 Main Street, Newtown                                      November 19, 2007