Leapz and Boundz : Ocean floor and Coral-MGT

The ocean floor is amazing! It is made up of sand, rocks,plants & coral. Did you know that Coral is a living thing? Many fish hide and live in coral. Coral can be found in many colors and shapes. Ocean plants grow in the more shallow waters because they too need sunlight.

Today, for art, we made our own coral with plastic grids and variegated colored yarn.

We cut the plastic into coral shapes and the children used a PLASTIC needle to sew the yarn
through the squares.

It was hard to pull the needle through, so the kids came up with an easier way-Teeth.

What ever works-right?

I think I spent more time rethreading needles the the kids actually used to

do their projects.

I'm not complaining though. The kids had a blast.

Some finished projects.

We worked in our little journals.

Traced the letter 'O' and colored the triangle.

Learning Centers...

For centers, I put the children in two's or threes and we rotate to each center. This way

they are working together in small groups and still get to do all of the learning activities.

I give them directions as a whole group for each center and help them out when needed.

1st center,

the children choose shell cards that had numbers on them. They then choose that amount of real sea shells out of a basket and placed the on the table next to the card.

They repeated this until all cards were gone.