A Wave of Fun!

This week's theme was oceans, which is exactly where I dreamed of being at! The cold weather lead to two delays, but it was still a fun week!

Monday

We started the day with some extra sleep because of the two hour day. But, when the student's came to school they were hyped up and ready to learn! We started out ocean themed week learning about the octopus! God made an octopus such and amazing creature! Besides having eight legs, we learned about how they can squish into crevices, ink for defense, and even change colors to their environments! The students then got to make their own octopus with eight fun legs.

 Of course they put their octopus on their heads.!Where else would they go?

One thing I learned on Monday, I do NOT know the plural for octopus. Octopi, octpuses? I still don't know!

Sadly, we didn't have time for any extra fun crafts this week with the delay. Hopefully next week will be nice and sunny (wishful thinking?).

 

Tuesday

Our ocean animal for Tuesday was the whale! It was a HUGE deal (hehehe). I asked the students who wanted to go outside and go swimming right then. Surprisingly I didn't have any takers! Then we talked about how whale have to swim when it's cold, but they have blubber. To explain the concept of blubber, we took a tray of ice and put two ziploc bags in it. One had nothing it (like "skin") and the other was filled with crisco (like blubber). They got to feel the bag and say which one colder. It was a fun visual for them!

 Then we practiced some scissor and writing skills by cutting out our own whales, and writing about why we like them.

Thursday

We took a break from our ocean theme on Thursday to talk about Groundhogs Day! A few students had never heard about the day before, and they were amazed at the idea that groundhogs could predict the weather. We decided as a class though that they probably couldn't REALLY predict the weather, but the holiday was just for fun. We learned some about groundhogs with the book Groundhog Gets a Say. 

We also made our own little groundhogs that could peek out of their burrows, and we attached a little poem about Groundhogs Day. 

Most of us decided that we hoped the groundhog wouldn't see his shadow because we're ready for spring!

New Things

New Verse: Keep thy tongue from evil. Psalm 34:13

New Sight Word: Give

New Letter Blends: sh, ch