Under the Sea

This week we focused on the theme Under the Sea. We began our week by listing all the things we can find in the ocean.

 The children then each chose a sea creature from our list that they wanted to learn more about. They then went home to do research and returned to school with the knowledge of three different facts about their creature. It was so great to watch the children stand up, in front of their friends, presenting what they had learned. Everyone had a captivated audience and we all learned so much!

Research Board:

For a fun exercise we pretended to be different ocean animals practicing walking/moving around like they do. For example, we practiced a crab walk, a fish swim, and octopus arm movements. We also made our own ocean waves in a bottle. We put food coloring, water, and oil in a bottle and gently rocked it back and forth, and watched the waves form and crash from side to side.  

As a math activity we played an octopus counting game. The arms were numbered 1 to 8 and the children had to place the correct amount of unifix cubes on each arm.