Even more of our Ocean/ Beach theme

This is just a quick list of some of the things we did today.
We played memory while mommy made breakfast.
After reading What's in a shell, we counted shells and sorted them by sizes. We even remembered a few of their names. Then we moved onto a simple boat. Of course we had to see if it really floats and tested out in the fish tank. Poor fish!The kids each got a basket and had to pick out ten things to see if they would sink and float. I wrote them all down and they took turns checking them off on our chart. In the end I had them count again how many sank and how many didn't. It was a tie.

Then they got to play in the water for awhile. Once Cole climbed in I knew it was time to call it quits. After they got cleaned up they moved on to some more crafts. This one was making jellyfish.

Then we made some magnets from our trip to the beach for Aunt Nancy.We also made some jello jigglers and the kids cut out some with fish cookie cutters. The only thing left on my list is a coloring book I have to print out for them - whats in the sea with some practice writing. I tried to get them to practice writing in sand. That didn't go over very well. I'll give it a try again later in the week.

Next week I would like to move onto a Zoo theme because we have a trip planned to the Zoo next week.

More of our Ocean/ Beach theme

I started putting trays out with activities for them to work on. First thing in the morning Cole comes out to color. Then she plows through all the work sheet pages I leave on the table. She will not do any if they are in a book -all pages must be ripped out. Moe will follow at a very leisurely pace. The only thing he likes is mazes ,puzzles oh and glue. After they had enough of the puzzles I dumped their magnets on the table and they matched the letters on their puzzles.

I pulled out our fishing puzzle that I had hidden. This will have to keep us satisfied until we find our fishing poles. I am hoping Ed will be home early one night to go fishing and crabbing with us.

We made octopus puppets.

Our refrigerator is our bulletin board it is covered with pictures of all kinds of sea creatures. Seems I forgot a sea turtle. Thanks Cole for adding this little family of turtles to our frig.

We finished our crabs.

poor thing looks like he's crying
These are some of the books that I have in our book box on the table. We've read them several times but I leave them out for them to look through.

Having fun in the sun

We hit the beach on Sunday with some of the other Koch kids. I really thought the water was going to be to cold for the kids. I should have known better. It was perfectly mild so I didn't have to be on top of them at all times and I could back up a few feet and snap some picture. I have no idea what she was doing yoga?? Just look at the joy on this kids face. He had a such ball running through the water.
We did some kite flying too

Ocean Theme- Rainbow Fish

We are still working on our ocean theme. I don't know if I posted these pictures. I'm bad like that. I know I added them to my flickr account. Here are the kids making their ocean picture. I had them paint glue on the bottom and sprinkle sand on it. They also added shells that we collected from the beach and ripped paper for the seaweed.

Moe's

Cole's

Notice Cole's. She just doesn't want to stop. She just wants to keeping adding things. Today we read rainbow fish and we made paper plate fish.

FOUR HOURS LATER! Yes, that is a Sponge Bob reference not really four hours. Even though it felt like it. Michael and I had ours hanging up already and Cole was still working on hers.

She kept going back to the book. "See Mommy look I need more colors. I don't have enough colors" She was also very unhappy that I only cut the tail fin. "Mommy this fish has five fins. I HAVE to have five."

This baby is going to need a few days to dry before we can hang it up.