Ocean Zones

I've been finding these creatures all over my loft.  

My girls LOVE wikki stix and they've been creating sea creatures with them in the spare time :)

Sea Star 

Sea Horse

Jellyfish

 We started today with a story.

I had words within the story that the girls had to find.

Adelyn and Charlotte both did pretty well with this!

On to the real topic of the day!

We read "Wish for a Fish" today and used an idea I found.

"Wish for a Fish introduces ocean zones.

We used another non-fiction text also!

Using construction paper, I let the girls choose which colors they thought matched which zones.

We glued them together to make a single sheet of paper.

I labeled the zones.

Then, we pulled out stickers that we have and began researching which sea creatures went where.

Charlotte was the expert researching.

Adelyn was the expert sticker-putter-onner ;)

We also put a bunch of our sea creatures into the right zone on our paper.

Then, we moved on to make a 3-d models.

The girls were SO into this!

We chose a few of our sea creates and measured out string 

to see where they would have to hang in our pretzel container.  

We used thread and mailing tape on the lid.

We even placed on few on the bottom that were truly in the "Trench".

Then we filled it with water.

The girls are goggly-eyed over our "aquarium".

Adelyn's big take-aways that she keeps telling us is that it gets darker and colder the lower you go.

That's a pretty good take away, I think!

Miss Adelyn is really getting into school more and more :)  yay!

Charlotte's really good at our routines!

Word sorts aren't Adelyn's favorite, but Panda loves it :)

We've added funnels and the crabshells you get with stuffed crab.