Partnership in the Coral Reef: Clown fish and Anemone

Pictured above an anemone fish in a bubble anemone.The boys knowledge about the Coral Reef before we began our study on Australia's Great Barrier Reef was from the movie "Finding Nemo." They knew that the Clown Fish lived in an anemone but not why or how.The Clown Fish (also called Anemone fish) are small fish that live in the warm waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans, including the Great

Australia's Great Barrier Reef

Two week's ago, we began a study on Australia as part of our Geography: Learning about our World studies. We took a break from it last week to learn about Earth day and this week we are looking at the Ocean life and Coral reefs of Australia as well as Animal life on the continent. Photo courtesy of Lanmark PhotosToday we took a closer look at Australia's Great Barrier Reef which is the largest

Ocean Creature Cards

Last week I made some Ocean Creature cards for the boys to use for our F is for Fish theme. I am sharing with my readers! Feel free to download and print the cards by clicking on the thumbnail image below.There are 9 pages shown in this set with 6 cards on each the Ocean creature pages. There are a 18 Ocean creatures shown with a matching picture card. I have included word cards provided for each

My Felt Clown Fish

I made felt Clown Fish bean bags to my sons to play a Clown Fish Toss game for our F is for Fish week. I am showing you how I made these cute Felt Clown fish bean bags for my sons.I wanted to share my crafty idea for making a bean bag for the boys to play a Clown fish toss game. I like making felt crafts for the holidays and I wanted to use my skills in making felt crafts with our homeschooling.

Book of the Week: RAINBOW FISH (Activities and Craft)

We read the book "Rainbow Fish" by Marcus Pfister during our F is for Fish theme.Book Summary:The Rainbow Fish, with is shimmering scales, is the most beautiful fish in the ocean. But he is proud and vain and none of the other fish want to be his friend--until he learns to give away some of his most prized possessions.Group Discussion:We went over the importance of friendship with others, and

F is for Fish

We had a fun two weeks learning about the letter F, Fish and Ocean animals. The boys want to continue another few days on the letter F with some Frog activities so I said YES! We are going to do a mini Frog unit on Monday. We will be reading the Book "the Frog Prince" by by Eric Blair. On Tuesday we will be starting our T is for Train (a two week unit on Trains). I have our books on hold ready to

Octopus Art Activity (for fine motor skills)

This week we are doing F is for Fish week and we did some fun crafts earlier in the week. Toddlers are developing their motor skills and this one is great for fine motor skills. My oldest son (with special needs) has done these activities to improve his motor skills as well. While we know that an Octopus isn't a fish, he is the prefect Ocean Creature for his activity.Here's what you'll need:

Coffee Filter JellyFish

When it came to make some Ocean Animals crafts for our F is for Fish week, the boys wanted to include one of their favorite Ocean Creatures.. the Jellyfish.For ours, I recycled and used some items we had already in the home:Instead of a plastic cup I used the drink holders you get from fast food restaurants. We had some leftover paper Cupcake liners so we used those to make smaller jellyfish!

Stainglass Fish Art

This week we had fun doing crafts for our F is for Fish week. I had so many photos that instead of having them all, in one post, I am posting each art day we have done separately!Here are our Stain Glass Fish that we made earlier this week!This craft is easy enough for a toddler to do. Mine enjoyed sticking the little pieces of tissue paper to the contact paper to his fish. You can hang your