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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

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.

 Yusuke Yonezu has done many drawings of animals. When I shared these images from his we talked about how animals are natural shapes.When we looked at his blue whale I traced the whale shape with my finger and the kids saw that it was an oval shape and when I traced the spray they identified the triangle. The students were able to tell me that the spray was above the whale.The whale is below the spray in this drawing,








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.
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  1. UnknownApril 25, 2014 at 9:19 AM

    We are also working on an ocean musical! Sonshine is awesome!

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