Stories:
The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires
App activity:
Magnetic Alphabet - Learn your letters. (Consonants and vowels). Listen for today's letter and word. Spell your name, count the letters in your name. Count the letters in words. How many letters are in your name?
MarcoPolo's Ocean app- we build our submersible and we explore the ocean!
MarcoPolo's Ocean app- we build our submersible and we explore the ocean!
Music:
"The Construction Worker Song"
"Dancing Bear" by Bari Koral
Closing song: "I Am a Mountain" (artist unknown)
"Dancing Bear" by Bari Koral
Closing song: "I Am a Mountain" (artist unknown)
Additional Activities for home:
1. Word awareness activities.
Download the Ocean app by MarcoPolo (click on Ocean to learn more) and continue the journey of exploring the sea. Observe and talk about the differences of what you find at deeper levels in the ocean. (Don't forget to rebuild your submersible and name the parts, like "porthole" and "periscope" and materials like "metal". Don't forget to mention how "magnificent" an invention such as a submersible is.
2. Build something at home. Use some of the tools we learned about: wrench, hammer, sand paper...
Here are some ideas from: Intstructables.com
http://www.instructables.com/id/Wind-Up-Plastic-Bottle-Submarine/
and for the more ambitious: http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-Baking-Powder-Submarine/
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