In the Ocean

We finished our ocean unit last week and it was a fun one! We studied a lot of ocean life including the coral reef.

We started our unit by reading this story

 

It introduced us to a lot of animals that live in the ocean. We made a huge squid and then wrote about which ocean animal it was bigger than! Such a fun project to get us started.

         (My squid is bigger than a shark.)                                                       (My squid is bigger than a turtle.)

We spent a day talking about different fish in the Ocean. Thank you, Finding Nemo, for giving the students lots of prior knowledge on this subject. We read a series of The Rainbow Fish and wrote about what we would do if we were the Rainbow Fish. Then we made our own!

  

The Coral Reef was our next topic and it was a fun one! We studied all different types of animals in the Coral Reef and watched a Magic School Bus movie about it too. We learned that a lot of the animals in the Coral Reef work together as partners to stay alive. What better to reinforce this concept than to work in partners on our project! The kids worked together in different groups to create lots of different animals in the coral reef.

        

  Working on creating Sea Squirts                              Making the Feather Star

             

  Hard at work making Sponges                                 Adding lots of detail!

                                          Anddddddd…..the finished product!

I love how it turned out  

I missed taking photos of our shark facts and coral reef fan book, but I hope your child showed you and told you all they knew!

Here are some pictures of the kelp we made and the whales we labeled. We finished our unit by making big ocean pictures that should have come home yesterday.

 

 

One week left of school. Oh. My. Goodness. Can’t believe how fast it has gone. I am not ready to say goodbye.

Pictures to come of our last days together!