Ocean/Sea Creature Week

This was a super fun week, Sea Creatures! 

Team building

Show and tell a piece of brain coral

Fine motor and name practice

Doing addition and subtraction with pearls in seashells

Cutting Shark Teeth

Once the boys finished cutting, gluing and coloring their shark hats we went outside to the “Ocean” where they had to “eat” the fishes as I called out the letters. 

Snack time, ‘fishing’

Sensory Bins filled with Sea Creatures

These were a huge hit, the boys wanted to do this over and over.  I would have them identify which sea creatures where mammals and sort them into which get their oxygen from the air or from the water.

The second day I read to them a book about coral and how it is an animal. Here is James examining the coral to see where the animal part lives.

We read a book about whales and the boys each painted and made their own whale

Sea Shell dig. This was also a hit.  The boys loved inspecting their shells and “trading” with each other.

Boat snacks

Finally we read Mr. McElligot’s Pool and they all made up their own “Crazy” fish.

Art Week

This week feels like forever ago, I hope I can remember most of what we did

Learning Odds and Evens the boys picked this up quickly!

Self Portraits using Picasso style Cubism

Painting with different materials

Sculpting

Rubbings with quarters for the letter Q

Blowing Paint for fall trees

It was a busy, messy and fun week.  I know we did a lot more than what I captured here. The first day I focused on different famous artists, Picasso, Rembrandt, Di Vinci, and Michelangelo. Then we made an art project after their style. The next day I read various Children’s books and Then we did art projects that resembled the art or style of art in those books.