Dallas World Aquarium Field Trip 2013

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One Is Snail Ten is Crab Math

We read One is a Snail Ten is a Crab and used creature counting cards from scholastic.com to create our own addition problems by counting feet.

Mister Seahorse

We read Mr. Seahorse and a non-fiction book about seahorses. Then we created a sea horse with watered down glue and tissue paper. We also wrote sentences about seahorses.

Ocean Research

We read non-fiction books from the pebble book series. I have found that these are the best non-fiction book for Kindergarten students because they are not too hard to read and they have quite a few word wall words in them. Then we used a pre- writing sheet made by Deanna Jump to collect 3 facts about our animal. We painted our hand prints to create our animals and used crayons to create the setting. I worked with the students in small groups to create sentences about their ocean animal.

Ocean Nouns and Verbs

We read the big book A Splash in the Ocean and learned that a noun is a person place or thing and about action verbs. We made a list of nouns and verbs from the story and then we made our own sentences using a ocean animal as the noun and an action they could do as the verb.

Commotion in the Ocean

In honor of the letter O, we read the Big Book Commotion in the Ocean and found rhyming words. We also made crayon resist pictures of our favorite ocean animal in the book and dicated a fact about the animal.