Down in the Deep Blue Sea!

The children were discussing pirates and pirate ships and it began a discussion about seas and oceans. Some of the children made pirate ships at the art centre out of the boxes and materials. We put out ocean animals at the block centre.  The children brought their pirate ships to the block area and created their own sea.  We discussed what kinds of creatures that they would see in the ocean and we made a chart.  The children printed their own words and I was amazed to see the words shark and fish on the chart paper.

The children went fishing for sea creatures and placed them in the letter pocket that the creature began with.  For example, as I was standing watching them, one student pulled out an octopus and said "o,o,o,o, octopus and put it in the o pocket.