The Ocean: Teach Thematically!
Whether you live near the ocean or not, your students will love learning about it! The ocean is full of many wonders. With books, pictures, and/or hands-on artifacts you can grab your students attention and interest.
As your students investigate the ocean materials, you can play math and reading ocean-related games. Use the theme to develop writing skills. Read books, fiction, non fiction, and guided readers, to learn more about the ocean as well as to practice reading. Sing songs, design a fish, and make a wave bottle to round out this unit.
The ocean and all that is in it will fascinate your students! For games, directions and other materials, check out our Ocean Thematic Unit: Strategically linked to Common Core Standards.
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This Ocean Thematic unit is clearly linked to common core standards.
The Ocean Unit, is divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, worksheets, science, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation.
Table of Contents:
Literacy Activities
The Hungry Sharks: Decoding Words
Ocean Sounds: Blending and Segmenting Words
The Fishing Race: Naming Alphabet Letters Fluently
Diving For Digraphs: Matching Beginning Sounds to Digraphs
Fish Bowl: Reading Sight Words
It Sounds Like: Reading Like Words
Color the Ocean: Reading Color Words
Oceans of Letters: Tracing Upper and Lowercase Letters A-Z
Math Activities
The Diver: Counting Forward From a Given Number
Ocean Graphing: Graphing Objects
Sinking Ships: Counting and Matching Quantity
Fish Numbers: Writing Sequential Numbers
Number Trace: Tracing Numbers 1-50
Fishing For Numbers: Identify and Writing Numbers 0-20
Catch & Release: Identifying and Writing Teen Numbers
Songs/Fingerplays
My Bonnie
The Octopus
Five Little Fishes
Art Projects
A School of Fish
Rainbow Fish: Portfolio Sample
Jellyfish
Science
Wave Bottle: Mixing Ingredients
Guided Reading Books
At the Bottom of the Ocean
Writing
Ocean Word Wall
The Deep Blue Sea
If I Met a Shark
Ocean Independent Writing Activities