Ocean Animals: Week 2

We finished up our Ocean Animals theme this week! Monday morning for our morning work the students practiced cutting with scissors. I gave them each two strips of paper to cut. One student cut a piece off and said “Look I made a trapazoid!”. Such a smart boy!

During our lesson we read the book Octavia and Her Purple Ink Cloud by Donna and Dorreen Rathmell. This book is about a little octopus who watches her friends practice hiding from enemies. She tries to practice too but can’t seem to make her ink cloud the right color. After reading the book we discussed animal adaptions and why they are important. In the back of the book it had some riddles and the kids had to guess what animal when with what adaption. During centers the students got to make their own octopus! They painted a cup purple, added some eyes, and gave them eight streamer legs. We hung them from the ceiling to make it feel like we were in the ocean!

Tuesday we learned about sea turtles! We read the book Sea Turtles by Carol K. Lindeen. We learned some new vocabulary words: shell and reptile. During centers the students made a sea turtle out of a paper plate. They painted it green and then added some spots to the top. 

We had bowling in another center!

We also had our ocean sensory bins again.

Her baby sea horses!

Tuesday night we had our preschool program, which went great! The kids did an excellent job singing and dancing! Here are two of the pretty girls waiting backstage!

Wednesday was Howards birthday! That morning we all made him a birthday card.

During our lesson we read the book Crabs by Carol K. Lindeen. We learned the vocabulary word “pincer” after reading the book. During centers the students made a crab using their hands! I painted both hands and had them stamp them onto a blue sheet of paper. They turned out really cute!

We had our water bin and ocean sensory bin again. They loved this center!

Some gem counting!

After lunch it was raining so we did some folder games!

Thursday we read the book Sea Stars by Carol K. Lindeen. We learned the vocabulary word “ray”. During centers we made a sea star using glitter and cheerios!

The students got to fish for letters during one of our centers!

Friday morning the students counted and added some ocean animals!

For our lesson we read the book Pout Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen. I love this book and so do the kids! It is about a little fish whose mouth is shaped like a frown so he always pouts. That is until one day a girl fish comes along and gives him a kiss on his pout. He then decides that he is a kiss kiss fish! This week we have been working on the letter X so during centers the students did an X dauber page. They then got to decorate a pout pout/kiss kiss fish.

We had our fishing for letters center again!

We also had the grocery store open again!

It was a fun two weeks learning about ocean animals!