ocean fun

The summer is going by in a blur. I want time to slow down. The last weeks of school we spend time learning all about the ocean and the animals that live in it. It is one of my most favorite units to teach. It also means the end of another school year is near!

For our poetry journals I used the poems from the book Commotion in the Ocean. My kiddos loved the book and especially enjoyed having their own copy in their poetry journal. 

The patterns for the shark and sea horse are from Deanna Jump. We wrote facts on the back of each animal.

These whales are found in my ocean unit available on TPT.

The jelly fish pattern is also in my ocean unit. We added crepe paper and bingo dotted the body.

Giant paper plate crabs we painted red.

Here is another Ocean poem we added to our poetry journal.

We learned lots of new science words. After we learned a new big word we added this recording sheet to our science journals.

 

whales and sharks

We've been learning all about the orca whale and the great white shark. My kids are fascinated with the great white shark.

our schema chart.
Using the patterns from Mrs. Jump's ocean unit we made orca whales and sharks. Then we used a venn diagram to sort all the new information we learned.

Shark writing sample
We also graphed our favorite ocean animal and analyzed the data.


You can get the graphing activity here.

pirates and ocean

Only 7 more days left of school!! I am so ready for summer vacation. We are still busy learning over here. We had fun with pirates and now we are learning all about the ocean. Today we learned about sharks.
This is my pocket chart station for the week. You can download it here. Just be sure to print 8 sets of the words.

Shark tree map
The pirate activities are from Deanna Jump's pirate unit. We went through the writing process together using a bubble map, story map, and then wrote a fiction story about being a pirate. Everyone came up with some creative stories. Then they made pirates using a glph. They turned out looking just darling. We also made sharks and followed up with non-fiction writing.