Posted in Creation Study

This week takes us under the ocean to learn about all the creatures God made that live in the water! FUN! I've been sitting here doing my weekly printing and jotting down of ideas...here is what I have so far. There are a few places I haven't looked yet...so I may be adding a few more little things, but overall this is our upcoming week!

Good Books

*Crinkleroot's 25 fish every child should know by Jim Arnosky

*Manatee Winter by Kathleen Zoehfeld

*The Seashore a Scholastic First Discovery book

*Where Am I? by Moira Butterfield (a cute book with clues for the girls to guess)

*Gentle Giant Octopus by Karen Wallace -- GREAT book!

*Fabulous Fish a "What a Pet" book

*Mister Seahorse by Eric Carle

*How Many Fish? An "I Can Read Book" that Hannah can read on her own this week.

*About Fish - A Guide for Children by Cathryn Sill

*What's It Like to Be a Fish? by Wendy Pfeffer - a Let's Read and FInd-Out Science book

*One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss - we will probably do "goldfish math"  with this book!

*Dolphin Adventure by Wayne Grover - this will be our read aloud this week, Aunt Lissa said this one was a good one!

Fun Activities & Crafts

*I bought the girls their first "paint by number" of fish and ocean life. I think they will LOVE it as they love anything to do with paint!

*We will label the parts of a fish and color it for our creation journal.

*we are going to work on animal classification a little this week. I have had to do my own research on this...as I don't seem to remember ANY of it! Invertebrates (octopus!) Mammals (whales, dolphins, walrus, sea lion, seal, manatee) Fish (sharks, sea horses, other fish) Crustacean (crabs) reptiles (turtles) the ocean has LOTS of different types of animals!

*We will make a paper plate fish one day. Take a large paper plate and cut the mouth out, then staple that part you cut out onto the back of the fish to be the tail! I probably will let the girls water color this.

*Lots of fun fact sheets from www.learningpage.com

Field Trip

*Friday we are going to the AQUARIUM with Daddy, Aunt Melissa & kiddos, Aunt Valerie & boys, Grandmama and Nana! What a FUN day that will be!