Reading Comprehension About Sea Animals. Pupils will read the passages and answer the questions. This worksheet will help pupils improve their reading and writing skills. It will provide the

Kindergarten reading and writing worksheets on the topic of sea animals. Designed for young learners in preschool and kindergarten. Students will read a short passage on a sea animal and will answe…

Creative sea animal crafts and activities for kids, toddlers, preschoolers and kindergartners to make ocean creatures like turtle, jellyfish

Nature lovers and budding scientists: watch this documentary on seat turtles, and then create your own colorful sea turtles.

Aren't coral reefs beautiful? I love all the vibrant colors that seamlessly blend together. They create a gorgeous ecosystem. This easy coral reef art project allows students to make their own stunning coral reefs with just a little paint and some sponges! Materials light blue construction paperacrylic paint in various bright colorsspongespermanent black markerscissorspaper plates

I have previously used the app Doodle Buddy for children to sort data into a Carroll diagram - I have blogged using the app for data handli...

Journeys First Grade Unit 3 Lesson 11 Sea Animals Scrambled Sentences Print each scrambled sentence on different colored cardstock. Laminate if possible, cut them apart and then put the sets of sentences (1 of each sentence) into a baggie. Students order one sentence at a time and then they write it beside the picture that it matches. This can be used as a center, but also as a whole group activity where students work with partners on the floor with clipboards. During whole group, partners order one sentence and raise their hand for the teacher to check. They read aloud it aloud to the teacher and this gives the teacher an opportunity to ask questions. Questioning can include capitalization/punctuation, subject/predicate, grammar, and comprehension over the basal. Students then write in the sentence in their nicest handwriting, put cards to the side and pick another set to order. Sentences include: Many fish swim in the water. Little crabs dig in the sand. Penguins swim where it is cold. Flippers help a turtle swim fast.

I love the illustrations in Where the Wild Things Are. Mr. Maurice using such wonderful texture throughout the entire book! His monsters are morphs of all kinds of different creatures. I use my zoom on my Elmo Projector to read and show the kids all the different textures and parts combined in each monster. We fill out the worksheet together after reading. It has them observe and practice visual texuture, and then shows them how to create it with colors. I teach the kids about tints and shades of one color (pink is red with white, burgundy is red with black) I also teach them about lighter or darker values of colors that are close on the color wheel (yellow is lighter than yellow orange but they are close in appearance and in the same family). They draw the texture with the darker color crayon of colored pencil and then overlap it with an all over color that is lighter. I caution them not to pick a color too close in value or it will hide all of the texture work. On the back, they sketch out 3 ideas for different monsters.... It also guides then through the creative writing activity. They have to explain what their monster consists of and what they are like. This is a good time to write vocabulary on the board for animal characteristics: Omnivore, Herbivore, Carnivore, Marsupial, Mammal, Reptile, Amphibian, Nocturnal, Arachnid, Insect, etc. These first 4 are mine... sorry, I love drawing monsters! I use them as examples for the kids to look at for ideas. This is the story outline for the monster above.... STUDENT EXAMPLES Faith Larry Brianna Calli M. Morgan G. Rikki S. Carmen S. Angel S. Victoria

Last week was our unit on weather where we learned to observe and record the weather! I used several activities from my weather unit . We...

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Science videos for kids to use in a primary classroom. My favorite YouTube Science channels to find educational videos for kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade!

You can find this full lesson plan in my 4th Grade Curriculum Lesson Pack HERE! I have had quite a few people ask me about the handouts I used to do this color value lesson: So here you go... Sorry that I cut of the word "white" on the left side when I copied it, but the kids still get the idea. You can always just re-write it on the original before copying. I also included a value shading handout that I use for colored pencil and pencil projects. Enjoy! [These are cell-phone photos of copies of the handouts, but they should print fine. I hand-draw most of my handouts and then make copies!]

Chromatography: Is Black Marker Really Black? The very important scientific technique of chromatography (separation of colors or parts in a mixture) can easily be introduced to kids by testing whether black is it's own color, or a combination of many. Cut strips of either coffee filters or paper towels (I used both) Have kids draw a line with a black washable/non-permanent marker. I used crayola. Make sure the line is at least a little higher up than the edge. Place strip in water. Make sure you do not immediately submerge the marker line. Watch as the water is absorbed and travels up the paper. What happens when it reaches the marker? The colors begin to separate. The color black is actually a combination of many colors (ROYGBIV). These colors travel up the paper at different speeds. With our markers, the separation of blue and red was clearly visible, with red moving further up the paper than blue. Depending on age and curiosity of kids, you can go deeper into explaining this process, why it happens, and what it is used for in science and forensics. Talk about chromatography paper and other professional equipment. Usually other solvents are used instead of water, like rubbing alcohol or other liquid chemicals.. many of which would probably produce better results than our run. Or keep it simple- black is actually a mixture of many colors and an simple experiment can prove that to us. I also used a "mystery ink" which nothing happened to when placed in water... I had kids compare and deduce why. Some thought it was a different paper or water or technique, but eventually (and some quicker than others) realized this was a permanent marker and the markers we used were water-based. Few tips: water travels up paper towels faster than coffee filter, obviously. Keep that in mind for impatient kids If you dunk the marker line into the water immediately, the experiment won't work. Boys especially didn't listen to directions and did this on their first try (see some in 2nd photo below) The steadier and still and longer you hold your paper upright in the water, the better results and better separation of colors you will get. If for some reason the water is taking a long time to reach the marker (most likely because a child put it too far up) you can help it along... don't submerge the line, but slowly dip the strip further into the water to speed up the process. Gravity I did a few simple gravity demonstrations. First, I asked my kids if they could explain to me what happens when a ball is thrown up in the air. Why does it fall to the ground? Why do all things we throw fall to the ground? Is there a name for this process? Is there anywhere we don't experience gravity? Then I used simple items: book, feather, piece of computer paper (flat), crumpled up paper, small ball..etc to test which items fall faster to the floor and why? (weight and/or surface area) Second experiment was learning how water travels from high places to low places because of gravity. We learned about a special tool, a siphon. When filled with water completely, you can place one end of the siphon in a bucket of water and the other end in an empty bucket of water (at a lower elevation than the full bucket). Water will move from the full bucket into the empty bucket. We don't have our fish tanks yet but I spent time explaining that the siphon is used often during water changes for very large tanks- it is much easier than scooping water out! Having two cups or buckets of the same size would be much easier. When the cup at the bottom was full of water, we stopped each end of the siphon simultaneously (by putting our thumb over it). Then we either poured out the bottom bucket or switched the places of the two buckets. Then put the siphon back into position and released our fingers. If the siphon is not completely filled with water at all times the process won't work and you'll have to stop and refill the siphon. The end that is pulling the water needs to be submerged in the water the whole time. At the other end, we held it a little above the cup so that everyone could see the water coming out.

This post contains affiliate links of products I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Did you know female sea turtles return to the same beach where they were born to lay their own eggs? They do! Learn more about their nest building and what happens to hatchlings once they're born with these fun sea turtle

FREE French Brain Break Dice: get your students moving like sea animals and insects as an energy-boosting activity. Brain breaks help your kiddos re-focus!

We are currently starting our final projects of the year. [I can't believe it!] But for now, let me catch you up on what we just finished... 5th and 4th grade have been working on the same concepts for the past two projects. Both grades participated in a school wide Egyptian art unit by creating Egyptian sarcophagi. They reviewed SYMMETRY, and learned about hieroglyphics. After that, they learned about creating TINTS and SHADES by making an undersea painting. You can find these handouts here- http://www.teachandshoot.com/2015/02/art-room-handouts-round-3-value.html I would have let the students have more freedom with other colors, but I really only had blue left, and underwater came to mind. Thanks for visiting! 3rd grade also participated in the Egyptian art unit by creating Egyptian PORTRAITS! This might be my favorite project from this year. What a wonderful job the students did! After that, 3rd grade made ORIGAMI frogs, but I forgot to take photos! After origami, 3rd grade started creating ASSEMBLAGE art like the artist Louise Nevelson. They are just starting to paint their sculptures this week! 2nd grade created a fun pyramid COLLAGE as part of the Egyptian art unit! After that, 2nd and 1st grade both created ABSTRACT Picasso PORTRAITS. 1st grade and kindergarten created Egyptian necklaces and learned a little bit about PERSPECTIVE by drawing the pyramids. Kindergarten just finished learning about weaving by creating some alligator WEAVINGs!

This cute paper plate pufferfish craft is a fun kids craft for summer. Toddlers and preschoolers, as well as older kids, will enjoy making this sea animal craft.

This fall, we've had some fun with the higher reading group doing some non-fiction animal activities. These have been in a pile to share, so we apologize. :) We don't have any pictures, but we will do our best to share. We started with learning about sharks while we were learning the 'ar' sound. Sharks seem to be one of those things that really just grab the kiddos attention. They couldn't get enough of reading about sharks, looking at pictures of real sharks, and even watching a fun video. We began by reading several books about sharks, and made a chart of all of the cool and interesting facts that we learned. Next we completed this shark activity. We then read this little sheet that the kids loved, since it had such great pictures. They also loved that the got to take home a little mini-poster to teach their families about sharks. We read over this several times, and by the end, the kids were able to read most of it by themselves. (Keep in mind this is the high reading group, so we have several reading at a second grade level.) Last we each did a shark report to really share what we had learned about sharks. These turned out sooo cute, I wish I would have remembered to photograph them. Next time! {Also, I apologize that the jpeg cuts off the side of the picture. Drives me all kinds of crazy! The actual document is ok though.} Click below for copies of all of these for yourself! SHARK ACTIVITIES Later on, we learned all about whales when we learned the 'wh' sound. This came right after the sharks, which the kids loved. It was really fun to compare and contrast whales and sharks, and to discuss the similarities between the two. We followed the same basic pattern by starting with reading several books about whales. We also found some really great videos on you tube. HERE is a great one of whales breaching. Of course there were few if any of our kids who had seen this, so it was really fun to watch the kids watching them. We also watched a great video of Beluga whales singing, which was another really exciting idea for the first graders. Unfortunately when I went to link it, it had been removed. But I recommend sharing something similar if you're learning about whales. We then completed this whale activity. {Sorry, it doesn't seem to want to rotate for me. } The kids loved this whale text that we read together, and loved reading about different kinds of whales, and looking at their different pictures online as well. At the end of our whale activities, we also created whale reports. We had a great bulletin board of our reports up that turned out so cute! As mentioned before, we wrapped up by comparing and contrasting whales and sharks, and made this Venn diagram. Make sure to grab copies for yourself! WHALE ACTIVITIES WHALE & SHARK VENN DIAGRAM We hope you find some of these useful! Tune in later this week for some bat and owl activities. Have a great night! Some clipart courtesy of Scrappin' Doodles.

Download the worksheet for free at HERE The reading comprehension skill gained in the primary school years affects all of the student’s learning in a positive or negative way throughout his/her life. While this effect reflects positively on the lessons of individuals with advanced reading comprehension skills, it reflects negatively on the lessons of those whose reading comprehension skills are not developed. Bloom revealed that there is a relationship between reading comprehension power and students’ success in mathematics, science, language, and literature courses. Reading depends on both word recognition skills and reading comprehension skills. Readers with advanced word recognition pronounce

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My first graders used oil pastels and cake/puck tempera paints to create these beautiful sea turtles drawing and painting project. Using just tempera paint,

During "M" week Pilot mathematicians had an opportunity to graph M&M's! First we had to sort all of our M&M's by color. Then we used markers to fill in our graph. We discussed which color we had the most of, which we had the least of, and looked to see if there were any colors that tied? We also counted how many total M&M's we had. What a delicious treat!

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Gyotaku literally means FISH-RUBBING in Japanese. This is a super fun lesson and can be a primary or intermediate lesson. Last year I t...

My groups first created their Alaskan snow-capped mountains using oil pastels, blending with baby oil and cotton swabs. As an added bonus, the room smelled great when we were done! Skies and seas were painted with watercolors and tempera. After these were dry, they added a splattering of white paint for their breaching whales. Orcas were drawn on a separate paper and then glued to their backgrounds. You can find another orca project here.

Matching Pictures and Words, Pictures Words Worksheets to teach children matching words to pictures, Worksheets to match words to pictures of fruits, sports, colours, animals, birds,insects, vegetables and more..

Creative sea animal crafts and activities for kids, toddlers, preschoolers and kindergartners to make ocean creatures like turtle, jellyfish

Learn the five ocean layers & which sea animals live in each zone with this colorful science experiment and habitat project for kids, tweens & teens!

Did you know that whales blow air out of their blowholes, not water? So why does it look like water? Find out as you mix science and art with this fun whale art project for kindergarten and first grade. 'Whale', That's Interesting! Whales force air out of their blowhole when they come to the surface

This Blubber Experiment lets kids experience for themselves how blubber keeps an animal warm in cold temperatures.