Monday:
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| A week with Gumby... |
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| He had a blast with this pretty girl! Wow...has he done some fun things! |
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A house for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle. What a way to introduce the ocean theme. Hermit had a plain house and he used things in the ocean to decorate his shell. We also learned that hermit crabs outgrow their shells and they need to find new ones to fit in. |
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| Then we decorated our own shells |
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| and used our sweet hands to make the crab itself. |
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| Awesome work girls! http://tippytoecrafts.blogspot.com.es/2011/12/handy-hermit-crabs.html?m=1 |
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| O is for an orange...orange. Let's paint! |
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| Great job sweet buddies. Remember to encourage them at home to hold their writing utensil at the base (instead of at the top) to give them more control in their writing/painting. |
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| O is for Owl http://www.pinterest.com/pin/84794405458613763/ |
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| Letter match! http://www.pinterest.com/pin/84794405458572505/ |
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| tricky...they had to locate the letter in this bin and match it up. The first day I did this (picture shown) proved to be a bit challenging. So on day 2 I modified it with less letters so they would be easier for their little eyes to locate. This made them feel more successful! |
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| Team work...block building...and of course knocking them over! |
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| We read this book and learned some cool information about some ocean life! |
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| This is the actual size of a squid's eye...it is the size of our head!! |
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| The size of a saltwater crocodile's head.. |
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| Just look at the size of those great white sharks teeth! His face says it all, "Yikes!" |
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| A humpback whale is the biggest creature that has ever lived...even larger than the biggest recorded dinosaur! |
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| This jellyfish is the longest creature. |
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| We then did a sort...which animals live in the ocean and what does not. |
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| Where does this one go?? She knows! |
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| Great work guys! http://www.pinterest.com/pin/84794405458595495/ |
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| Let's explore so ocean life! |
We opened the day by reading Swimmy by Leo Lionni
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| They created their own Swimmy illustration by painting bubble wrap that I cut out in the shape of a fish. |
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| We then helped them press the bubble wrap down on the paper... |
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| We can't forget Swimmy himself...the black eye! |
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| Awesome work kiddos! http://www.freekidscrafts.com/bubble-wrap-fish/ |
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| Working on the letter O...They added Cherrio's...the kicker....they had to use plastic tweezers to pick up the Cherrios! Now that is hard work! But they did awesome!! |
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| If you could be 1 ocean creature and only 1 what would you be? You will have to wait to see these answers! I am putting them in their portfolios! |
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| Why does an octopus spray ink? Let's find out! |
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| drop it into water... |
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| each child got to add some black paint (mixed with water) using a syringe. |
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| What do we notice? |
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| We can't see the octopus! It sprays ink to protect themselves against predators in the ocean that may try and have them for a snack! http://www.learnplayimagine.com/2013/02/mfw-kindergarten-oo-octopus.html |
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| Math time! 1 octopus has 8 legs...let's cut its legs out! |
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| Not only are they using great fine motor skills to cut the yarn...they are also using 1-1 correspondence to count the strings of yarn they are cutting. |
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| Awesome! |
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| Perfect work sweet buddy! |
