Littles Learning Link Up: Under the Sea Unit: Sea Turtle Lesson

   

Each month you will find:

• Posts where I share what I have been up to with my elementary-age children and the preschoolers I work with at our homeschool co-op (including occasional highlight posts where I share how we used ideas that have been linked up here on Littles Learning Link Up).
• The occasional round up post.

Each week, I will host a link up, where you can share either what you have been up to recently, or old posts that may go with the theme.  Feel free to link up more than one post.

Each week I will continue to feature a couple of posts from those that have been linked up. 

I hope you will continue to share your wonderful posts, and I hope you will find something new to try with your child(ren).

It would be great for everyone to stop by and visit the other linked-up posts as well. Check them out, leave some comments, pin those that interest you. Let's make this a real party and socialize with each other.

Here's a peek at what we have been up to in our homeschool.

We've mainly been keeping busy with our review products. When it comes to our My Father's World curriculum, I've sort of put that on pause. Tabitha has been reading on ahead in her history lessons, but seeing as we are in colonial times and have been learning about George Washington with our YWAM Publishing book and unit study, and Benjamin Franklin with our Home School in the Woods lapbook, I figured that was great for now. Both of those reviews will be posted this week. 

They have continued using Let's Go Geography during their computer time to learn about countries they are interested in. Though they haven't done any of the hands-on projects. 

We have also continued math on the computer with CTCMath, plus Harold likes using Matific Galaxy. Additionally they have been getting extra practice with riddle worksheets from Math Galaxy. That is another review that will be posted this week. 

We are missing being able to go to co-op. However, as I am behind in my postings, I still have two prek/k lessons to share with you. We had continued our "Under the Sea" unit, and I still had more lessons planned. I do not know if co-op will start up again or if we will be waiting until next school year. I'm not sure what I will do when it comes to this unit if it waits until October to start back up. We'll see.

Moving on to our preschool lesson:

We moved on from seahorses to learn about sea turtles.

We read this book:

We looked at the map in the book to see where the sea turtle spend her life.

Then we started our Paper Plate Sea Turtle Craft.

You'll need:

Paper plates

Green construction paper

Wiggle eyes

Green paint

Yellow paint

White paint to make the yellow a light yellow

Paint brushes

Black marker

Glue sticks

School Glue

Stapler

Scissors

Prior to class you could cut the green construction paper into small hexagons for the scutes on the carapace, plus front flippers, back flippers, heads and tails. However, as the children are getting older, I had them cut them out themselves.

First they painted the carapace green. Make sure to paint the bottom of the paper plates for this craft, so when you staple them together the turtle isn't flat.

We set those aside and then painted the plastron light yellow.

While those dried the children worked on cutting out the scutes and other body parts.

When the children came back from snack and gym, the paper plates were dry, so they were able to glue the scutes to the carapace.

Then they glued the head, flippers, and tail to the unpainted side of the plastron.

Then we stapled the top to the bottom and added wiggle eyes and a mouth.

Paper plate sea turtles:

Then we made a sea turtle snack out of rice cakes, peanut butter, apple slices, kiwi slices, grape halves, and raisins.

First the children spread the peanut butter on the rice cakes.

The grape halves were the scutes and tails, the kiwi slices were the heads, apple slices were the flippers and the raisins were the eyes.

Of course, we also sang our Under the Sea songs.

"One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Once I caught a fish alive." 

Plus a song that goes to the tune of "The Wheels on the Bus." We found a video for this song online, but I don't have signal at the camp, so we didn't watch it. I just wrote down the words. There were five different ocean animals. And, of course, I added motions.

The shark in the ocean goes chomp, chomp, chomp, 

Chomp, chomp, chomp

Chomp, chomp, chomp

The shark in the ocean goes chomp, chomp, chomp

CHOMP....CHOMP....CHOMP!

Same pattern for the following:

The turtle in the ocean goes snap, snap, snap...

The crab in the ocean goes click, click, click...

The jellyfish in the ocean goes wibble wobble wibble

The fish in the ocean goes swish, swish, swish (though the one girls wanted to do, The fish in the ocean goes swimmy, swimmy, swimmy...)

The seahorse in the ocean rocks back and forth...

We were supposed to continue the under the sea unit for a while, but our final lesson was about sea turtles. No clue when we will get back to co-op.

Here are a couple of things I would like to share with you:

Fishy Under the Sea Literature and Craft Round Up

Butterfly Fun Round Up

Butterfly Metamorphosis/Life Cycle Fun Round Up

Now onto:

Littles Learning Link Up Features

On my last Littles Learning Link Up post, there was 1 wonderful post linked up. 

Please, don't forget to stop by other posts that are linked up. See what catches your eye, stop by, pin the post to a relevant board, and perhaps leave a comment to let the author of the blog know you have been by for a visit. I know I appreciate others commenting and letting me know they have read my posts, so I am sure others do too.

This week's featured post is:

Gale from Imaginative Homeschool shared INDOOR GAME: Laundry Basket Ball

Join the Party!

I would love to have you join in this week! What sort of activities do you do with your young children? Do you have some favorite activities you would like to share? I invite you to link up below. I will be pinning posts on one of my relevant boards, and I would love to feature some of the activities each week from what is linked up.

Please know I may share a picture from your post and link back to it, along with sharing how we used your idea in our school time. By linking up you are giving me permission to use a picture from your post. I will ALWAYS give credit and link back. Additionally, if you choose to try out any of the ideas with your child, please make sure you give credit where credit is due.

Linky will be open through Monday night, to give me time to check out all the posts and get the Features organized. Please take the time to visit some of the other wonderful posts linked up.

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