Ocean in a Bottle, Animal Art Projects, etc.

Of course this week we had another busy week! First we did a whole class science experiment in order to make an ocean in a bottle. We have been learning about the 3 different zones in the ocean: sunlight, twilight, and midnight and we wanted to make our own zones in our bottle. 

In the bottom of the bottle, we put water and colored it blue. Then we added oil on top of the water. The middle picture showed what it looked like after we did that. The final picture shows what our 'ocean' looked like after we shook it up. It  represented the lighter sunlight zone on the top, the darker twilight zone in the middle, and the darkest midnight zone at the bottom. 

 We have also been learning about which zone various animals live in.

 The students wanted to make their ocean animals that they have been studying in order to display on our bulletin board. I put out many different materials for the students to be able to explore and create with. Take a look at all of the different materials we used! In all of the mess and chaos I only took one picture of the students working and you can see Elizabeth working with my mom below.

Here are what the animals look like displayed on our bulletin board, they turned out so great!

 We have continued to practice reading books full of our sight words in literacy lab. We have been really focusing on story comprehension and discussing what we have been reading.

We also read another book called, "Birds in a Tree" and practiced recognizing our number words. After we read the book, we went through and highlighted all of the number words in our books and colored our books. 

Here is an example of one of the reading comprehension pages we have done.

 The students practiced reading their All About books with their group that they worked with to write about the ocean animal they focused on.

 We shared our sight word books that we have read this week along with our All About Ocean Animals books with our preschool reading buddies this week! 

 We also had some student nurses from Kettering Hospital come talk to our class about personal hygiene and cleanliness on topics such as hand washing and teeth brushing.

We had a busy week and I look forward to another busy week next week! Thanks for checking in. Please don't forget to vote for issue 20 on Tuesday to support West Carrollton Schools! 

Have a great week!

Mrs. Brittany Garrabrant