Ocean Visitors

We had some visitors today!

I bought 3 beta fish and borrowed a hermit crab from another teacher to study during our ocean unit. ( See old post here).

 The kids named the fish: Redman, Bobbie "The Blackout" Beta and Rainbow Sparkle. The hermit crab was named Hermie! Aren't those cute choices?


Last week when we learned about fish, we completed our fish report writing on this cute writing paper. (I have this stationary as a freebie on my TPT preview of this unit. Download here if you're interested!) We also read Rainbow Fish and made our own sparkly versions.



I let the kids outline all the scales with glitter. They look amazing when finished!

Today we sang this crustacean song and highlighted the facts, read A House for Hermit Crab and made these adorable hermit crabs!

The songs and craft templates are included in my ocean unit. I can't wait to study dolphins and whales next!



 Hope you all are having a great week!

Under the Sea! Ocean Freebies

Goodbye, Pond Life ... Hello, Ocean animals!

We have finished with Frog and Toad and will be beginning our Ocean Habitat Unit.

I love, love, love this unit because it is so arts integrated in dance, drama, music, and visual arts. It has a huge science emphasis while remaining literacy based.  Our first grade usually puts on a performance after the unit to showcase the students learning. I included many of our ideas in the unit for the performance if anyone is interested in an end of the year performance. It's so fun and makes the last month go by fast! It also includes all the foldables and materials to make a lap book at the end.

Here is the preview! It's so big I had to make a preview of the preview!!! It's 68 pages!
These are kind of hard to see but you can get a better look by opening the preview on my TPT listing. Click the picture to go to my TPT store.

I also used many of the resources I had so I was able to include lots of freebies for you!!

Just open the preview on the TPT listing for the freebies. I hope you can use this unit in your classroom. I'm so excited for our trip "Under the Sea".