Memorizing the Moments: May 2024

Friday, May 31, 2024

Shark Counting Spinner Game

I wanted a counting game to go with our ocean tot school theme, so I made this shark spinner game. The idea is that you spin a number, and then find a card with that number of fish on it to feed to the shark.

I printed onto cardstock and laminated the pieces. I taped the shark to a cube made out of magnatiles. I taped one of these spinners to a CD case and then can just switch out the spinner inside.

Print the Shark Counting Spinner Game HERE

Find other Ocean Resources here:

Thursday, May 30, 2024

Oceans Unit

We wrapped up the end of our Around the World Homeschool Curriculum and Biome Units, with a couple of weeks focusing on oceans.

Beneath the Waves: Celebrating the Ocean Through Pictures, Poems, and Stories

I Wonder Why Whales Sing

I Wonder Why The Sea is Salty

What if There Were No Sea Otters?

The Sea Below My Toes

The Big Book of the Blue

First Big Book of the Ocean

Just Ask: What is a Wave?

Extreme Planet: The Deep

Looking After our Oceans

Just Ask: What is the Ocean?

If Sharks Disappeared

Over and Under the Waves

Ocean Animal Adaptations

The Truth About Dolphins: Seriously Funny Facts About Your Favorite Animals

Look Inside Seas and Oceans

The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor

Ultimate Ocean Rumble

The Magic School Bus and the Shark Adventure

Magic School Bus: Ocean Adventure

Sea Turtles

Lift-the-Flap Sharks

Sharks!

Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist

Who's Afraid of the Light?

Just be Jelly

The Ocean Gardener

Sunny the Shark

Magic School Bush Rides Again: Sink of Swim

Humpback Whales page from Maps for Penguins

Octopus and Seahorse pages from Life Cycles

Atlas of Adventures: World Wonders

Deep sea creature page from The Big Picture Book of Planet Earth

He spent a lot of time with these activity books:

Puzzle Ocean

National Geographic Kids Ocean Animals Sticker Activity Book

Ocean Sticker Facts

Ocean animal suncatchers

Ocean animal seek and find puzzle

Under the sea transfer book

One of the ocean pages from the World Atlas Sticker Book. It had several pages.

Ocean foil fun activity.

Jellyfish watercolor project from Art Projects for Kids. It turned out neat, but the baby tore it from the wall before I got a picture.

We ended the school year with a road trip to the Shedd Aquarium.

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Tot School - Squares

We have been working on a shape a week, as well as doing other themed activities.

These are the shape related activities. Juniper was about 23 months.

This was her little area on our play room wall. The poster is from The Learning Effect. The rest is her completed work for the week.

Coloring some squares. (Printable found here).

Practicing tracing in her dry erase center. She still needs a lot of help, but she enjoys it. (Printable found here)

Do a Dot markers for her square dot page.

Play dough included some fondant cutters, cookie cutters, a roller and a stamp.

We practiced matching with some Qwirkle pieces

Q-tip painting

Playing with some pentominoes with her brother. They spent some time "building" and then we made colored paths for her little sorting people.

Sorting cars and garages have been a huge hit lately.

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Tot School Farm Theme

Lately we have been doing a shape a week, as well as a fun theme for Tot School activities. Most recently, we did a farm theme. Here are some activities we did.