Ocean Week 2

Mondays Schedule

Book - My Very Own Octopus  (read on youtube)

Movement and Numbers - Fishing for Numbers
The kids were giving fishing poles with magnets on the end.  the would fish for numbers.  When they got one they matched the number to the numbers on a poster board.

Arts/craft - Octopus
Cut the legs on the octopus and put "dots" on their legs representing suction cups.  They watched a video of an octopus and talked about how they used their legs and suction cups on their legs.

Game - Cutting
They cut up pieces of paper.  The kids loved this.  Simple but fun:)

Wednesday Schedule -

Book - The Playful Dolphin by National Geographic Society
This book has a lot of words so we did not read a lot of it, but mostly looked at all the pictures and talked about what was going on in the pictures.  The kids really enjoyed looking at the pictures and learning a little about dolphins (and I enjoyed sharing my love for dolphins with them).

Movement - Crab Racing
My kids love racing do this was perfect for them.  They struggled with crawling like a crab but enjoyed it any way and laughed every time they feel down.  We would race from one side of the yard to the other.  They could have done this for hours!

Numbers - Puzzle and Counting Cards
I found a picture you cut into strips and have a number at the bottom at this website http://www.2teachingmommies.com/2011/08/oceans-updated.html .  They helped me put the puzzle together and helped count and make sure they were in order.  This was a little over their heads but good for them.
We also laid number cards that I found on the same website above.  I wanted to use fish but we at them all so we used raisins.  They helped me count out how many raisins should go on in each number card. They did great at counting but still do not recognize their numbers yet.

Art/crafts - Shells
We collected shells on the bay last wednesday.  I kept them and cleaned them out.  For crafts today they choose a few shells they wanted and painted them.  Then we glued eyes on the shells that where whole.  They turned out super cute and the kids loved it.

Game - Bay Trip
It was another beautiful day in Washington so we so went the rest of the afternoon on the bay exploring:)