Long time no post!

We have been doing the ocean unit and are finishing that up tomorrow. What I have found to be a great resource, now and for the future is The Magic School Bus books. When you are starting a new unit, look into these books, and check them out if your library has them! They are chock full of information, and absolutely fascinating for me and the kids!

I found at Scholastic that they have some Units at Scholastic for some of the books in the series, you can look here. There are videos too, that I hear are great. Our library only has them in VHS, and we don't have a VCR anymore, so I haven't been able to watch them with the kids.

Here is a copy and paste from my Word Pad document. I keep everything I want to do in one Word Pad document labeled - Kindergarten Lessons - Divided by month, then unit.

We found the IMAX to be very informative and the kids really enjoyed themselves. This unit we will definitely be revisiting when the kids are older, because it is such a huge unit, that some of it would be above a 6 year old's level. In general most of the Unit's I found were for 3rd-4th grade.
Here is some of the stuff we used:
- Ocean Theme -

Thematic Unit (science, math, decor, english, all of it) -> http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/ocean.htm
Decorate the wall, facts on animals, oceans, compare 2 oceans, a relief map of ocean floor
make an ocean mobile
*songs, wave bottle & starfish craft -> http://www.angelfire.com/fl/preschoolfunzone/sealife.html
sea life mural painted
tons of themes links -> http://atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/Ocean/
http://www.pickens.k12.sc.us/hesteachers/laboonac/Web%20Pages/ocean_links.htm
http://themes.mrdonn.org/K-2.html
create an ocean scene -> http://www.geocities.com/sseagraves/createanoceanscene.htm
deep sea memory game -> http://www.mbayaq.org/lc/kids_place/concentration/
http://themes.mrdonn.org/TheFishTank.html

::CRAFTS::

Finger paint with shades of blue. When dry, chalk draw different sea life.

Fish Bowls
Find a pattern of a good size fish bowl, and cut it out of a paper plate. Paint it blue like water. Before paint dries sprinkle any color of glitter around the bottom of the bowl. Then after its all dry, glue on one big fish or lots of small fish, now you can cover this with saran wrap but don't have to.