Under The Sea Week: Friday!

Under The Sea Week

Friday

Crafts:

• Crab Paper Plate: Flexible dinner-sized paper plates, scissors, paint, crayons, markers

1. Paint the bottom of two paper plates.  
2. Cut the body from the plate, like an eye shape.  
3. Cut out 2 claws and 8 legs.  
4. Insert these parts between the body plates and staple them rim-to-rim.  
5. Paint on two black eyes.  
6. Your crab can have movable parts if you use metal fasteners to attach its legs.  

• Fish Tank: Box with a clear plastic cover, paints, construction paper, markers, clear plastic drinking straws

1. Set the cover aside, and paint the inside of the box.  Cut fish, seaweed, and other things from paper.  Add tabs to the seaweed and other objects that will be connected to the bottom.  Add details with markers.
2. Fold the tabs back and glue the objects to the bottom.  Cut straw pieces.  Glue one end of each piece to the back of a fish.  Glue the other end to the back of the box.  
3. If you want you can even punch a hole in the back of the box, insert straw and glue fish to the other end and be able to move the fish around.  

• Fish Picture: Cardboard, tape, construction paper, glue, paint, pencil

1. Have your draw a fish picture.
2. Then, have them tear up pieces of construction paper and glue the pieces on their picture.
3. Make a frame with cardboard for their picture.  Paint frame. Let dry.
4. Tape picture to back of frame.

Activities:

• Under The Sea: 1 twin size sheet, preferably blue; precut pictures of animals and mammals that live in the sea.

1. Place the pictures on the floor.  Lay the sheet on the floor on the picture.
2. Have everyone playing sit around the sheet.  
3. Ask the children to pick up their edge of the sheet.  Help the children to move the sheet up and down to create waves.  
4. While you are making waves talk about what they may find in an ocean.
5. Call one or two children at a time to "swim" under the sheet and pick up a picture.
6. When the children surface they should tell the group what they found.  
7. Ask the children what else might they find under the sea.  
8. You can provide goggles and fins for the children when they "swim."

• Motion Of The Ocean: Blue food coloring, water, clear baby oil, a spoon, a few trinkets such as shells, plastic fish, boats, or a treasure chest; one widemouthed container (empty plastic juice bottles)

1. Help your child fill their container halfway with water.  
2. Squeeze a drop of blue food coloring into the bottle, and instruct the kids to stir it into the water.
3. Drop in a few small trinkets and then add baby oil until the bottle is filled almost to the top. Wipe off any drips, and cap each bottle tightly.
4. To be certain curious hands won't open the bottle, line the inner rim of each cap with a few drops of super glue or liquid cement before screwing on the cap.  Make sure to wipe any glue drips to prevent sticky finger nightmares.  
5. Because oil and water won't mix, when the children shake and tilt the container they'll see the liquid undulating like waves in the ocean.  

• How Does A Fish Float? Small plastic water bottle, water, plastic tub or sink

1. Fill the sink with tap water.
2. Half fill the soda bottle with water and put the cap on.
3. Place the bottle in the sink.  Notice that it floats.
4. Remove the bottle from the sink and uncap it.
5. Add water so the bottle is three-quarters full and replace the cap.
6. Place the bottle in the sink again.  What happens to the bottle this time?
7. Buoyancy is the tendency of something to float.  Some fish have an organ called a swim bladder, which is long sac filled with air that lies just above the digestive system.  the fish controls its buoyancy by varying the amount and pressure of the air in its swim bladder.  You reduced the amount and pressure of the air when you added water to the bottle.  The bottle that contained more air floated higher in the water.  

Snacks:

• Tuna Sandwiches
• Tuna and Crackers

Education:

Letters/Words

• Word Of The Day: Index Card, Pen

1. As
2. Work with your child on all their words so far.  How many do they remember?
3. Let them write out each word and try to make sentences with their words.

Numbers

• Dice Game: Pair of dice

1. First player rolls the dice and counts the dots on the dice to see how much many they have.  This is a great time to introduce your child in addition.  5 dots + 3 dots = 8 dots.
2. Second player rolls the dice and counts their dots and see if they have more or less than the first player.  
3. If you want, each player can keep track on each number they roll.  For example: if they roll a 7 with both dice they write down a 7. 
4. After their done playing, look at the numbers and see which number shows up the most or least.  You can even chart them if you want.  

• Ocean Math Printable Worksheet

Music:

• To "The Wheels on the Bus"

The sharks in the sea go chomp, chomp, chomp!

chomp, chomp, chomp!

chomp, chomp, chomp!

The sharks in the sea go chomp, chomp, chomp!

All through the day!

We had the kids tell us different sea creatures and this is what they told us:

The fish in the sea go swim, swim, swim...

The lobsters in the sea go pinch, pinch, pinch...

The octopus in the sea go wiggle wiggle wiggle...

The sea horse in the sea rocks back and forth...

The whale in the sea goes quirt squirt squirt...

The clam in the sea goes open and shut...

The crabs in the sea go click click click...

The jellyfish in the sea go "bloop bloop bloop"!

Song found on perpetual preschool.  There is lots more ocean songs on this site too.  Very cute ones.

Rhyme:

Sea Animals

What do you see in the sea?
Animals moving free!
Snails and whales
Using their tails.
Seals and eels
Looking for meals.
Catfish, flatfish
Chasing fat fish.
What do you see in the sea?
Animals moving free!

Meish Goldish

Books:

• I Was All Thumbs by Bernard Waber
• The Rainbow Fish Book Series by Marcus Phister 

Video:

• Watch a movie from the supply list.

Under The Sea Week: Friday!