Ocean Life

Tavion & Taylor's ocean art.

Today we explored a new habitat, the ocean. We read Smiley Shark, written and illustrated by Ruth Galloway, and the children learned about ocean life: coral, seaweed, sharks, angelfish, starfish, jellyfish, puffer fish and the octopus. Then I showed the children pictures from my visit to Cancun and passed around some shells, fossilized coral, and a piece of gorgonian (sea fan) that I found on the beach near the ocean.

We continued to play the conductor game with percussion instruments in music, and each of the children had a chance to play some maracas that I brought back from Mexico.

In art we looked at Paul Klee’s The Golden Fish once again. The children made their own ocean pictures using oil pastels and tempera paints in the style of Klee.