This is definitely one of our favorite themes of the year!   

We spoke about the different animals that live “under the sea”, as well as on the shore and were pleasantly surprised to learn just how much our Bugs know about sea creatures. We covered everything from the teeniest tiniest little organism all the way up to the largest mammal on earth! We spoke about sharks and covered quite a few of the different species of sharks including the Great White Shark, the Hammerhead Shark, the Whale Shark and the Tiger Shark, that they are cold blooded and eat other sea creatures. We spoke about whales, like the Blue Whale and the Killer Whale, we spoke about the blowhole and what they use it for, as well as what they eat. We learned that turtles come to the shore to lay their eggs and bury them in the sand, and that they have a hard shell on the back to protect them from predators such as sharks and killer whales. We learned that the proper names for “Nemo” and “Dory” are a clown fish and a blue tang. We learned that Seahorses wrap their tails around seaweed to hold on and that the daddy seahorse carries the babies in his tummy rather than the mommy seahorse! We learned about Crabs and what they use their shell and pincers for, Sea Anemone’s that have poisonous spikes to protect them and Starfish that can regrow their limbs if they happen to lose one.   

We discussed the importance of marine conservation and why plastic is so dangerous for marine animals. We also got to play with our Ocean Sensory Table, which had blue fabric “water”, sand, shells, sands and plastic sea creatures in. The Bugs absolutely loved this activity and where so excited to go “hunting” for things on the table.  

For art for this theme, we made the most scary and adorable sharks. We did this by painting scrap paper blue, cutting a half-oval shape out of newspaper, 4 options of mouth shapes and lots of little paper triangles. The Bugs got to stick everything on exactly where they wanted it to go and create their awesome sharks. 

We also made a collaborative art piece for our amazing student teacher, Teboho’s, assignments. The Bugs each got a turn to paint a giant sheet of paper blue, they leafed through magazines to find pictures of sea creatures and cut them out, coloured in little sea creature pictures, sponge painted white for the clouds and dipped pieces of tissue paper into green paint to make seaweed. This piece was absolutely stunning! 

We hope you all have a lovely weekend, rest well and we will see you back next week for another exciting theme!     

Next Week’s Theme: Cooking and Food (there will be no art next week). 

Next Week’s Show and Tell: Please send something theme related. 

Our Bugs!