Sunday, March 12, 2017

Ocean Creatures!

We had an awesome week exploring the creatures from down below! We also worked on the letter Oo and had a focus on number 8.

Thursday:
After reading, A house for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle we made hermit crabs of our own and decorated their shells.


Who doesn't love glitter glue!

What a great hermit crab. I will add the eyes later!

I think he loves hand prints as much as I do!

A little science on how this sea creature protects itself.
First we watched this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjZ2k1Qm3bA
We also compared it to Hank in Finding Dory.



We learned that the octopus sprays ink so they can move away fast and their predator can't see them!

O is for Cherrio's...well kind of! I didn't have Cherrio's so this other O cereal would have to do!
This is a great grasping skill too!

 Friday:
This week I added wiki sticks to their name bags. This is a great way for them to manipulate and create their letters!
PLEASE...PLEASE remember to keep these in their school folders...I was missing quite a few this week. 

Just check out that M...she looks thrilled! 

Great job sweet girl!


Painting her squid...
These turned out super cute! 



Working on writing her name! WOW WOW WOW!!!!

O is for orange...

great job buddy!

So on Thursday I gave them this activity...but I had made them with yarn. That proved to be extremely challenging...so I took them home and made them with pipe cleaners instead. This was a great way to staircase count and use their fine motor skills!

Always a smile on her sweet face!



Hard at work!

Exploring sea creatures of all kinds...
Discovering they can hear the ocean in the shells!


Exploring lots of different shells...



We combined Mrs. Hannah's class and our to make the layers of the ocean...
This proved to be more challenging than we thought!


We had trouble keeping the layers separated.
Hannah concentrating super hard! 

The kiddos were able to see some of the layers separate.
What a great week learning about the Ocean! Next week is St. Patrick's Day and rainbows!

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