Welcome back to another week of “Ocean Exploration: Under the Sea!”
This week, we dove into ocean-themed stories including “Commotion in the Ocean,” “Sunshine in the Sea,” “Mr. Seahorse,” “Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea,” “Big Little Fish,” “Ocean Life,” and more. These books helped us learn about sea creatures and sparked curiosity about life underwater.
We made jellyfish from paper plates, “rescued” ocean animals from ice, and fished with pipe cleaners. Using nets, we filtered and cleaned “ocean water,” which led to meaningful conversations about pollution and how we can help protect marine life.
Additionally, we crafted shiny sea stars and seahorses and painted jellyfish bodies while adding pipe cleaners for tentacles. Throughout the week, we also made colorful ocean-themed headbands. As part of practicing our fine motor and early math skills, we sorted pom-poms by color to match different seashells and worked together to create an underwater seascape using paint, crayons, and stickers.
In our weekly cooking class, we chopped up strawberries, bananas, apples, and kiwis to create a fresh and tasty fruit salad.
We also played outdoors with our friends throughout the week and joined Coach John for soccer class on Wednesday.
Next week, we will wrap up our ocean unit with a swashbuckling pirate adventure!
Students colored a paper plate and threaded pipe cleaners to make tentacles.
Students honed their fine motor skills through practicing adding stickers to each sucker on an octopus’s tentacle.
Students pasted pieces of shiny colored paper to decorate sea stars.
Students matched each pom-pom "pearl" to its correspondingly colored oyster shell.
Students colored, cut, and attached several fish onto string to create their own collection of fish.
Students used mallets and hammers to break the sea creatures free from the ice.
Students cut strawberries, kiwis, apples, and bananas to make a fruit salad.
Outside, students played with bubbles, tunnels, and balance beams. On Wednesday, Coach John led our soccer class and taught the students a new game.
