Ocean

This week we learned about the ocean and a variety of animals that you find in the ocean.  We read books, made waves with scarves, sang songs, and played funny fish games with our hands too.  I also included a short video that we watched of ocean animals, the sounds that they make, and the way to spell each animals.  Hope you enjoy a few of the pics from our fun-filled week of learning!


Here are the links to a few videos we enjoyed:

ocean animals for kids video

ocean animal sounds and spelling video

We put white whales in a Ziploc bag with different spots of colored paint and squished it all around...

 ...and this is the cute and colorful whale we ended up with.  They're hanging up in the hallway (as you can tell), and you can check them out next week.  This went along with our story about Jonah and the whale too.

We used letter "O" fruit loops to glue onto our Octopus that you find in the Ocean!  Mrs. Stacy helped us out this week while Mrs. Karen was out for a few days.  It's so nice to have such awesome co-teachers at LAP that can fill-in and love on these kiddos. :)

 These are our finished octopus crafts we made.  Great fine motor practice for strengthening these little hands!

 We also got to do something else with food this week...Goldfish Graphing!  We sorted them by color and then counted them on our graphs to see which color had the most and least.  Then, we got to snack on a few too. :)

Cole got to share his adventures with Gumby from last week. :)

Fun time with puzzles in the classroom.

Working on tracing and using stencils with markers.

We got together with Mrs. Laura's class for an ocean water science experiment.  The goal was to show the different ocean zones that animals live in (the lighter water is toward the surface and darker water is toward the bottom of the ocean).   Look at all these cuties patiently waiting for us to do the experiment.  Great behavior that shows they're ready for Kinder Prep next year!

It didn't turn out quite the way we hoped, but at least you could see a lighter layer and a darker layer to represent the top and bottom layers of the ocean!  That's life with experiments!