Take Me Out to the Ocean!

This is a two week wrap up of Insect week and Ocean week.  I'll keep it simple - a photo and caption post. We'll start with our study of insects from two weeks ago. 

Pretending to be in their cocoons. 

I would bring my blankey in my cocoon because it is tickley and soft.

If I was a caterpillar I would bring a piece of candy.

The Exterminator - a subtraction math workshop

Looking at Mrs. Stout's real caterpillars in their cocoons

Some sight word stations

Owen found that now that he could spell the new sight word, "just" he could spell Justin Bieber's name!

This was our journal prompt after having read The Very Grouchy Ladybug who tried to pick a fight with anything it came across

I fight with my dog because my mom says to put the dog out and he will not go out

Guest readers Emma and Brayden

What insect would you be and why?

As my mom would say, they're cute as a bug's ear.

 Now for ocean week.....

We built words with different ocean animal names as we read and studies them each day.

We recorded facts about them in their Ocean Animals Fact Packets

 

The song we learned and sang all week (to the tune of Take Me Out to the Ball Game)

 After reading A House for Hermit Crab...

I would make my house with the Property Brothers. Their names are Jonathan and Drew.

 After reading Rainbow Fish Saves the Day....

I helped my friend named Ruby put up signs for my dad's home inspections.

I am scared to do my recital but my piano teacher named Katie is going to help me. My recital is Sunday.

After reading Mister Seahorse (a story in which the daddy ocean animals are all

 taking care of their babies)

 Our reading centers, math workshops, and sight word stations

Sorting animals by their habitats

Coloring their ocean book for their personal book buckets

Fine motor center - tweezers to find the ocean sight words, mini clothespins to organize them

Count the room

Fish Race

Spin and color your pattern

Working as a group to make a graph

 

 

New shape activity - Geostix. The kids LOVE them.

 

 The writing 'craftivity' to wrap up the week. The students chose their animal, cut it out, wrote facts about it, then colored an oceanic background using what we call "naked crayons"

We turn the "naked" (unwrapped) crayons on the their sides to make the bumpy texture.