Monday, September 10, 2012

Ocean unit centers

Ocean Centers!
During the month of August, we studied the ocean!
These are the centers that were on our shelves!
 
Short vowel sort- I made these plates look like "fish bowls" with stickers.  Each fish bowl was labeled with a vowel.  Katy (4) had to match the middle sound of the picture cards to the vowel on the fish bowls.  I got this activity from here and then changed it to match our theme :)
 

Goldfish cracker math from prekinders. Color sorting for Evan (2) and patterning for Katy (4)

Ocean puzzles...The Phineas and Ferb sand caste puzzle was a big Dollar Tree hit!


Again, I used those blue plates to make a counting activity.  Evan (2) placed the sea creature beads on the stickers to practice counting and one-to-one correspondence and Katy (4) practiced skip counting by 5s.

These came from a cute water color painting pack from Walmart.  It featured sea turtles, mermaids, fish, an octopus.....

Pattern blocks from prekinders. A big fish from big sister and a little fish for little brother!

This was the most fun center!  My husband's grandmother brought this pretty dolphin wrap back from Hawaii.  We used it as our ocean.  Each child had his/her own color fish.  The little fish had paper clips on the back and we used a magnetic wand to "fish" for them.  On Katy's (4) fish, there were sight words.  Evan's (2) fish had letters to read.
 
Ocean Writing Center - foam stickers, stencils, markers, writing prompt pictures, and ocean words booklet
 

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