Ocean unit

We just finished up our month long ocean unit. We explored all the different oceans, coral reefs, Oceanographers, and Blue Whales. We did so many fun things! Here are some of the fun things we learned about.

The students estimated how long a Blue whale  is, and then we measured how one really is.

These are painting of a blue whale from the artist Yusuke Yonezu.

 

We visited the Portland Aquarium

Water color painting of a coral reef

Anchor Charts

coffee filter fishees

Ocean Journal from 1st-Grade-Is-Wienerful and Reagan-Tunstall. I combined their two packets to fit what I needed.

This little light of mine

This is a cute little craft we did this week to go along with the song this little light of mine. This song is one of the students favorite (I work at a private school). Here are the materials I used.

• Cups for the Dollar Store
• Little lights from Party City (normally $20 for 20 but I had a half off coupon, sometimes the Dollar tree has them.)
• Tissue paper
• Glue

I had the students glue on cut pieces of tissue paper and then we took our craft into the bathroom where we could get it completely dark. They loved it! I talked about how sometimes the world is dark and sinful, but God gives each of us a light to make the world a prettier and happier place to live. My kindergartners are beginning to get this concept, we always talk about ways to shine our lights. One student even prayed "Father, thank you from my friends, and teachers. Please help us shine or lights today for everyone. Thank you for forgiving our sins." It was pretty precious! Here is a picture of a students completed cup.

This is a super easy and fun craft that my students loved!

Valentines crafts

Valentine’s Day crafts

There are so many fun art projects you can do for valentine’s day, but here are a few we picked.

For this project I used one back piece that was 4x4 then I cut out two smaller pieces to lay over it. I thought this was a good way to practice cutting. I did some practice scratch paper before I let the students do it on their final piece. Some students were able to do it themselves, and I had to trace hearts for some students.  

Confetti Hearts

This project was inspired by Jim Dine. Next year I would love to do an art unit on him during valentines! Though they didn't turn out perfect it was fun for them to try a new material, and they made it their own. We used markers for the confetti, and black charcoal for the heart.

Valentine’s Day Bags

Found this idea on pintrest, was easy and turned out very cute!