Fish & Farm/Zoo Animals

The past few weeks have been crazy busy, but I managed to capture some fun learning moments during our fish unit and our farm/zoo animal unit. 

OCEAN/FISH

I'll start by showing you my favorite activity during fish week, "fishing for sight words". The kids LOVE it so much! I wrote popcorn words on the fish and they went fishing! They wrote the words they caught on their fish paper. 

We also sorted and graphed goldfish. I've never seen the kids so motivated to get their work done until I say they can eat they goodies when they complete the task! Ha they completed this center so fast, because they wanted to eat their colored fish. 

And one more goldfish eating reward activity. They had to choose two colors and create their own fish addition story on their fish bowl paper. If their math was correct then they got to eat their fish! I started seeing lots of 9 + 9. Those smart sneaky lil kids! Ha 

We used sharks to practice greater than less than. It was so much fun pretending to chomp on the bigger number.

FARM ANIMALS

For our farm unit we did a fun cut & paste subtraction activity. Again, the kids got to come up with their own story to go with it. They are loving coming up with their own word problems. 

"How many pigs rolled out of the mud" was a fun hands on subtraction game. This game really helped my struggling kiddos. 

WILD ANIMALS/ZOO ANIMALS

For our wild animal/zoo unit We started with the "abc monkey challenge". They had to work with their team to hang the monkeys in order on the vine.

We made rhyming/word family snakes. I was impressed with some of the rhyming families they chose to work with. One of my kids came up with words that rhyme with "clock" and even spelled them All by himself! 

We used zebras to come up with our own addition stories. 

We wrote our own math stories and presented them to the class. They were supposed to write stories about zoo animals, but her princess were too cute. 

Then they had to choose words from

The bucket to create a sentence about a zoo animal and then illustrate it. 

Slinky snakes! We use these all yearlong, but they are extra fun when we are learning about snakes. Slinky snakes are great for sounding out words and blending. 

And lastly, we made snake patterns using cut up pool noodles and rope.