Wednesday, March 14, 2007

March, Week One and Two, Whales and Dolphins

Discovery Time: painting whales, whale puppets, pin the tail on the whale, paper bag whales, baleen experiment, blubber experiment

Circle Time: Comparing and contrasting whales and fish, comparing and charting whale sizes, teeth versus baleen, learning about whale tails, discovering how whatles stay warm (blubber and migration)

Small Group: subtraction word problems, math workbooks, phonics workbooks ( beginning sounds -f and -g), journal writing

Story Time: As Big as a Whale, A Symphony of Whales, Baby Beluga, The Whales, Big Blue Whale, Amos and Boris, Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?


Week Two More Whales and Dolphins
Discovery Time: dolphin hand puppets, dolphin pod collages, rainbow fish, identifying and coloring whales and dolphins

Circle: Understanding whale dolphin families, communication and echolocation, identifying different types of dolphins

Small Group: recognizing and creating 2-D and 3-D patterns, math workbooks, phonics workbooks (final consonants -m.-d, -f, -g), journal writing

Story: Friendly Dolphins, The Rainbow Fish, I Can Read About Whales and Dolphins, The Magic School Bus and the Ocean Floor, dolphin/whale video excerpt

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