Under The Sea Week: Monday!

Under The Sea Week

Monday!

Crafts:

• Desk Aquarium: 3-liter soda bottle, making tape, colored plastic tape, 42-ounce oatmeal container, black poster paint, light-colored construction paper, makers, string, pencil, corrugated cardboard, felt, green pipe cleaners

1. Cut the bottle in half.  Fold masking tape to create a better gluing surface.  Wrap colored plastic tape around the outside edge to cover the masking tape.
2. Cut a 2 1/2-inch-tall piece from the bottom half of the bottle upside down to form the aquarium.  Put some strips of masking tape over the dome to create a better gluing surface.  Glue the black box over the top of the dome.
3. Fold the construction paper in half.  Draw some fish.  Cut them out so that you have two sides for each fish.  Color the fish on both sides.
4. Cut pieces of string.  Glue the two sides of each fish together with the end of string in between. Use the masking tape to tape the other end of each string inside the dome so the fish hang down.
5. Trace around the open end of the aquarium on the cardboard.  Cut the circle out, and cover it with felt.  Shape some seaweed plants out of the pipe cleaners.  Glue the seaweed to the felt-covered cardboard.  Glue the bottle in place over the cardboard with the fish hanging down.

• Secret Treasure Chest: Shoebox and lid, poster board, yarn, construction paper

1. Cut the top from poster board.  Glue it to the front and back of the lid.  On poster board, trace around the half-circle shapes at each end of the lid.  Cut them out, and glue them on.
2. To attach the lid to the box, cut a slit at each back corner of the lid to make a long hinge.  Put glue on the inside of the hinge,  and glue it to the box.  Decorate the chest with cut-paper details.

• Under Water Mobile: Cardboard tube, craft sticks, yarn, paint, construction paper, lightweight cardboard or foam paper, glue, scissors, plastic-foam ball, gogglie eyes, pipe cleaner

1. Make an octopus from a plastic-foam ball with foam paper tentacles.
2. Make a crab by painting a cardboard and pipe cleaners for the 6 legs. And cut out 2 claws out of foam paper or cardboard.
3. To make a clam make an 8 out of cardboard or foam paper, cut out the 8 and fold in half.  Glue a smaller piece of circle out of foam paper in the middle of the clam.  Glue 2 eyes onto the foam.  Glue clam shut with eyes sticking out. 
4. Decorate tube with paint or paper.  
5. Make 3 holes in the tube.  Make sure the holes go all the way through the tube.  
6. Make three 12"-"15" pieces of yarn and tie each to the center of a craft stick.  Thread the other yarn end through a pair of the holes in the tube.  Pull down until the stick rests on the top of the tube.  Tie a hanging object to the end of each piece of yarn.  

• Critter Keepers: Blue and red felt, red and blue foam paper, 2 gogglie eyes, 2 small plastic foam balls, white pipe cleaners, toothpick

1. Cut a piece enough to cover the lid of an egg carton.  It should be at least 7 inches by 15 inches in size.  Glue the felt to the lid, tucking in the edges s you would gift wrap and gluing them securely. Let the glue dry.  
2. Lobster: to make the eyes, poke a piece of white pipe cleaners into each of two plastic-foam balls. Use a toothpick to poke two holes in the top of the egg carton.  Insert the pipe cleaner into the holes with a little glue.  Cut claws from foam paper, and glue them to the inside of the lid.  Glue on gogglie eyes and a foam-paper mouth.
3. Blue Whale: Fold a piece of blue felt in half.  Cut a tail shape from the blue felt, using the fold as the top of the tail.  Place the pipe cleaner between the felt pieces, leaving about 1 inch of each stick poking out from the bottom of the tail.  Glue the pieces of felt together.  When the glue is dry, bend into a curved shape.  Poke the two ends of the pipe cleaner into the back of the carton, bend them, and add glue to secure.  Glue on gogglie eyes and features cut from foam paper.

• Submarine: Small and smaller box, stapler or glue, pipe cleaner, paint

1. Cut the end-flaps from both ends of a small box.  Staple or glue the ends together.   Turn over.
2. Glue a box on top.  
3. Paint the submarine.  
4. Add a pipe cleaner for the periscope.

Activities:

• Play a game of go fish
• Go fish...for real: Empty wrapping paper tubes with fishing line or string, large paperclip, dry dish sponges, scissors, paint, tape, small paperclips, sequins

1. Paint the paper tubes.  Let dry.
2. Tape a piece of yarn into the top of the tube.  
3. Attach a large paperclip bent into a hook at the end of each line.  
4. Cut out little fish shapes out of sponges.  Glue on a sequin for the eye of the fish.  Hook a paperclip through the mouth of each fish.

• Gold Coin Treasure Hunt: Gold coins, treasure chest that was made from up above, small treasures, white paper, pen

1. Hide gold coins around the house and the treasure chest with small treasures inside
2. Can make a map where to find the coins and treasure.
3. Have your child search around for treasure.

• Sink or Float? Feathers, cork, string, piece of plastic, seeds, money, beans, buttons, pine cones, craft sticks, construction paper, plastic bottle

1. Begin lowering items into a tub of water one at a time.
2. Ask your child what they think the item will do sink or float

Snacks:

• Octo-Dogs and Shells: 4 hot dogs, macaroni and cheese shells, 1 1/2 cups frozen mixed vegetables, mustard in squeeze bottle, cheese-flavored fish-shaped crackers

1. Lay 1 hot dog on side with end facing you.  Starting 1 inch from one end of hot dog, slice hot dog vertically in half.  Roll hot dog 1/4 turn and slice in half vertically again, making 4 segments connected at the top.  Slice each segment in half vertically, creating a total of 8 "legs." Repeat with remaining hot dogs.
2. Place hot dogs in medium saucepan; cover with water.  Bring to a boil over medium-high heat.  Remove from heat; set aside.
3. Prepare pasta according to package directions, stirring in vegetables during last 3 minutes of cooking time.  Drain; return to pan.  Make cheese sauce or add cheese sauce.  Heat over low heat until heated through.  Divide pasta mixture between four plates.
4. Drain "octo-dogs." Arrange one octo-dog on top of pasta mixture on each plate.  Draw faces on "heads" of octo-dogs with mustard.  
5. Sprinkle crackers over pasta mixture.

Education:

Letters/Words:

• Word of the day: Index card, pen

1. For
2. Practice this new word with your child.
3. Have your child say words that rhyme with this word.

Numbers: 

• Laundry Basketball: Laundry basket, ball

1. Decide on a goal of any number from 5 to 10.
2. Stand back a few steps and toss the ball into the basket.  Count each one that goes in.
3. When you reach your goal, make a new goal and start again.  Or, take turns tossing or rolling the ball with a friend.  
4. Try tossing the ball in different ways, such as behind your back or through your legs.  Can you bounce the ball one time and make it go into the basket.  

• What Day Is Today? A calendar that shows the days of the month, paper, markers or crayons

1. Tell your child what number day it is.  
2. On a sheet of paper, have your child draw a picture of all the things they would like to do today.  Things like help mom, hug dog or cat, brush teeth, clean room.
3. Then, have your child draw today's date on the paper.  For instance, draw a big number 5 if today is the 5th.
4. Hang the picture in a spot where you will see it throughout the day.
5. At the end of the day, have your child look at the picture. Did your child get to do everything they drew?

Music:

Washboard: Cardboard, paint, scissors, glue

1. Peel off the top layer from cardboard, exposing the corrugated part.  
2. Cut this part into a square, and paint it.  
3. Cut a larger piece of cardboard in the shape of a washboard, and paint it.  
4. Glue the corrugated square onto the washboard.

• There's a hole in the middle of the sea.
• Five Little Fishies
• For words: www.theteachersguide.com

Rhyme:

If All the Seas Were One Sea

If all the seas were one sea, What a great sea that would be! And if all the trees were one tree, What a great tree that would be! And if all the axes were one axe, What a great axe that would be! And if all the men were one man, What a great man he would be! And if the great man took the great axe, And cut down the great tree, And let it fall into the great sea, What a splish splash that would be!

Books:

• Just Grandma and Me by Mercer Mayer
• Sea Animals by Dorling Kindersley
• The Fish Who Could Wish by John Bush
• Ocean Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta
• When the Tide is Low by Sheila Cole

Movie:

• Watch a movie from the supply list.

Under The Sea Week: Monday!