Fish

To begin this week we have been talking about fish.  In February we learned about ocean animals, and in March we will talk about ponds.  Fish live in both of these habitats.  Today the children listened to the story The Rainbow Fish.  Shining from Rainbow Fish's multicolored body are several shimmering silver scales. All the other fish in the ocean admire him and want to play, but Rainbow Fish is too proud to play with them; nor will he share his sparkling scales. Alone and friendless, Rainbow Fish soon learns that generosity is far more rewarding than keeping everything for yourself.  

At centers the children made a Rainbow Fish of their own.  They cut out its body.  They put their hand in a bubble wrap glove and painted their fish to look like it had scales.  Lastly, they put on a shimmering scale.  At my center the children fished for rhyming words.  When they caught a fish they looked at the picture on it.  They then matched it to the picture it rhymed with on their recording sheet.  At an independent center the children listened to the story Fox in Socks.