Book - 1 Fish 2 Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
Movement - Shape Puzzles
Kathryn has a puzzle that has fishes on it and you have to fish for the fishes. On the bottom of the fish she cut out different shapes. When they got a fish they had to name the shape and match the shape to the shapes on the window. The really liked this one.
Numbers -
Take pipe cleaners. On the top tape a piece of paper with a number on it. Then have them place beads on the pipe cleaner. Have them place the number of beads to match the number on the paper.
Arts/craft - Fish
The kids painted the back of paper plates. Then they got to glue on the tail and eyes.
Wednesdays Schedule -
Book - Animals that Live in the Sea by National Geographic Society
This book had lots of words but we spent that time looking at the pictures and naming the animals we say and reading a little about each animal. The enjoyed seeing new and different kinds of animals.
Movement - Sea Animal Cake Walk
I found cute sea animal action cards on this website http://www.toddlerapproved.com/2010/07/ocean-animal-movements.html . On the website it had lots of ideas of what you could do. I decided to do a cake walk kind of game. I put them in a circle and played music and the kids walked around the circle. When the music stopped the stopped on animal they were on or near. Then they had to do the action that animal does. They LOVED this and never wanted to stop.
Numbers -
I found measuring sea animal worksheet on this website http://www.2teachingmommies.com/2011/08/oceans-updated.html . We used goldfish to measure how big each animal was. Then we counted how many goldfish there were. They did real well at this one. Also on that website they had counting cards. You circle the number that matches how many animals there were. This one was great for them because they can count well and need to work on matching the number to what the number looks like.
Arts/Craft - Starfish
I cut out big stars before hand. I had them glue the star fish to blue paper. They then put glue on top of the star fish and each took a turn sprinkling sand on top of the glue. They turned out super cute and the kids loved that we used sand. I did have to explain that we are using sand inside for this activity but that does not mean we bring sand inside any other time.
Game -
I used the same sea animal action cards from the movement activity. I gave each kid three animals. I then drew animals out of the hat. The person who had that animal would stand up and bring it to me. The person who ran out of animals first won. We just played till everyone was out of animals. They really enjoyed this simple game:)
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