Under the Sea

"Take it from me, up on the shore they work all day. Out in the sun they slave away, while we devotin', full time to floatin'.  Under the sea!" 
We are headed to the beach this week to learn all about the different things we might see in the ocean!  The children made turtle, jellyfish, crabs, fish, and more!  One classroom even made scuba diving outfits! How fun!

I think some of our parents were even more excited about this project than the children!  Each child in Pre-K got to make their own aquarium to take home, fish and all (plastic fish, that is)!

Several classrooms made ocean sensory bags where the children could move the ocean water around to find different sea creatures!

Time for some math activities!  The children compared whales and sharks and also sorted out the multicolored goldfish to see which one they had the most of.  Then of course, the "shark" had to come along and eat up all the goldfish!

We have some of the cutest ocean displays in the different rooms!  I love seeing all of the children's work displayed in such a fun way!  The kiddos love it too!

For our cooking project, we made Ocean in a Cup using blue jello for the water and crushed up Nilla Wafers for the sand.  YUM!

Our letter of the week was "o" so all the children made an octopus!  As you can see, there were several different ways that these were made.  One classroom added some math into the activity by having the children put the legs on in number order.  Another group worked on their fine motor skills by stringing noodles on for the legs!

We had a lot of fun this week and it will have to do since we can't take a field trip to the beach!