How is everyone doing? I hope you are all have a wonderful day.
Yesterday, we continued on learning about ocean animals, which included a sea star, a sea horse and a jellyfish. We learned that stars fish are more commonly being referred to as sea stars because they are less like fish and more like sea urchins or sand dollars. We also learned that they have no blood (their blood is filtered ocean water!). Sea horses look very much like horses (except much smaller!) and do not have a stomach so they need to keep eating and eating in order to be healthy. We also discussed facts about a jellyfish, learning that they do not have heart, blood or brain... interesting!! They also make a good meal, which is a delicacy in certain restaurants. In fact, Miss H. tried jellyfish at a dim sum restaurant this past weekend! Tasty!
Today's focus was on two other sea creatures... a dolphin and an octopus!
We learned that dolphins are extremely smart animals who depend on echolocation. They are also very good jumpers (is there a dolphin olympics we don't know about?). Dolphins are so cool that they even have their OWN language and no dolphin sounds the same. They do this through squeaking and whistling. Similar to us, don't you think?
We learned that an octopus has eight arms and NO bones. That's why they can fit into teeny, tiny holes and places, which is a good escape tool. We watched a clip on an octopus, showing its flexibility. We also learned that they need three hearts in order to get enough oxygen. That's why they live in such cold, oxygen-filled waters!!!!
We made octopuses using purple balloons and blue tissue paper. I'm sure you have all seen them after school. We also made some ocean memory cards. I encourage parents to play this game with their children!!
We worked on the letter Jj and also did some shapes worksheets. At the end of the day, we had story time and read about pandas. The book was called Little Panda.
We had french and music.
I hope everyone has a great day!!!
Miss H.
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