Ocean Life

Kid's choice week began with exploring the ocean and sea creatures. Today we read The Tide  by Nik Pollard and talked about low and high tide. Two of our students just returned from a vacation on the east coast and brought back seashells for us to check out. We also read Goodnight Ocean and Under the Sea.  We used our big atlas book to look at where the oceans are around our country. Some of us have been to visit the ocean!

After talking about the kinds of animals that live underwater, we made pet lobsters! Miss Carey played us a silly "Rock Lobster" song while we worked.

One of our new pet lobsters! Thanks for the recycled egg cartons!

Here's a peek at our math centers this week. We're working on Go Fish, pattern block templates, more or less, and phone number practice. We're working really hard to not only recognize our numbers, but also to write them and compare them.

Pattern block templates help us explore shapes and patterns.

More or less. We put our hands in the can and pull out unifix cubes. Then we count how many cubes of each color, write the number under the correct column, and circle the number with more.

Go Fish!