Ocean Week II

 Painting an Octopus may not sound like much of a task, but our friends "dove" into the experience.



We used a simple picture of the creature and taped it to our easel for reference.



Our goal was two part: 1) paint a circle for the head, 2) paint eight tentacles

 More paint followed as we painted our palms and fingers (no thumbs) to make a funny little octopus with eight legs. We counted each one.

 

We glued two eyes on our hand-print octopi because we could see in our informational books that thatWe is the number of eyes a real octopus has.

At group time we read/sang a wonderful counting book filled with sea creature mommies and babies.

After reading about Sea Turtles, we measured (using our bodies) and taped off the area that would hold a Loggerhead Sea Turtle.



We counted off to see how many friends could ride on his back.

Impressive!





We discovered that a sea turtle egg is the shape of a ping pong ball, round, instead of oval like a bird egg.

We practiced our sign-language for three different Ocean animals.










A great recycling project used "bubble wrap" to create frothy ocean water.





It was a print-making project, the first one we've done this year.



















The best thing about making a print is pulling back the paper and seeing the surprise!

 

We added more prints with sea animal sponges.