The weather didn't cooperate with my plans for beach week, but these kids brought the sunshine. We had a great week learning beach style. Thank you Troutmans for the decoration donation. The classroom was set up with all sorts of reading review stations.
The beach theme gave us a fun way to review important skills like context clues, prefixes, suffixes, figurative language, cause/effect, and genre. Students rotated through 7 different reading stations each day. They worked extremely hard. Again, they were so into the theme, I don't think they even realized how hard they were working!
Of course, math was not left out of the theme. During math, we used Starbursts as square units to compare area and perimeter. The students had to build different size and shaped beach towels according to certain given perimeters and areas.
One of the favorite activities was art! We drew a self portrait of ourselves in scuba gear. Then we did a bubble print/paint to stamp on the background of the water. We made a mixture of water, dish soap, and food coloring. The artists used a straw to build up the bubbles in the cup, then put their paper on the top of the bubble mixture. It resulted in a really cool textured background.
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