Swimming in fun!

This week we had an ocean of fun talking about animals around the sea in the water and on the beach.  We found hidden 'letters' in bottles floating in water around the room and as we opened the bottles we found various letters inside!  Some said A or F or M!  It was great fun sharing these with one another.

We had a blast this week with a variety of under the sea songs as well!  The children LOVE to sing, "Baby Fish," and "Baby Shark," so we have included the links to these songs for you here.  We performed them both a lot this week! 

We read the classic Rainbow Fish book this week as well and then made fish with glittering silver scales (made out of foil) on those paper fish just like Rainbow Fish gave out his scales in the book.

After working on writing words that pertain to ocean animals, we did a lot of acting out of ocean animals like including ocean animal yoga moves too!

 After all the stretching and dancing and singing and giggling, we took a field trip to the Palatine gymnastics room to feel the bouncy floor and pretend we were bouncing on the waves of the ocean!  We went treasure hunting and found all sorts of things as we 'swam' to the bottom of the 'ocean' and collected prizes!

We enjoyed a beautiful Star of the Week poster and were amazed to learn we only have one more to go next week! This school year is really flying by as so many things are coming to an end in the next few weeks!

We made crabs out of our hand prints this week and will be sending them home next week and enjoyed decorating our room more this week when we added starfish to our classroom walls to add to our snakes on the ceiling, lions on the cabinets and jellyfish on our walls.  Our room is looking really fun for the end of our school year for sure!

For some added math fun this week we used our finger prints into fill fish bowls with the amount of finger prints associated with the number written on the fish bowl.  It's always great to watch our older kids count out their finger prints to be sure they have the accurate number of finger fish in the bowls.

 We spelled words this week using our word puzzle games and looked for three and four letter words and spelled them at our tables.  For our younger students or those who are not ready to work on reading whole words yet, we worked on three letter words, then for our children heading off to kindergarten next year, they worked on the four letter puzzles for added challenge.

Our seahorse project this week encouraged the children to show their creative side and use whatever materials they wished to fill in the seahorses body.  Some children colored in the animal and nothing else while others did add additional materials to their horses too.  They all looked amazing and so different from one another too!

 What's Coming Up?
Next week we will be talking about Space and are very excited for all we have planned!

Invitations to the graduation ceremony and party went home on Wednesday too, please let me know if you have any questions and remember you are invite anyone you wish!