Author: Pam Munoz Illustrator: Mark Astrella ISBN: 0881069884 Lapbook created by Robin Diedrichs

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Library List
The Underwater Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta
The Seashore by Gallimard Jeunesse and Elisobeth Cohat
The Deep by Tim Winton

Objectives
Counting by ones, fives, and/or tens depending on the child’s developmental level.

Matching Uppercase letters to Uppercase letters and matching Uppercase letters to lowercase letters depending on the level of the child.

Explore the five different senses ("I'm here with the five of me again") and be able to give examples of each from Hello Ocean.

Discover which type of liquid an egg would float in – fresh water or salt water using scientific investigation.

Learn what ocean/beach words begin with the letter O.

Enjoyment of ocean/beach poems and songs.

Identify circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, and stars when using them to “build’ a sandcastle.

Hello Ocean Pre-reading Ideas

1. Feel Bag: Put some beach objects in a bag or empty tissue box one at a time – starfish, shells, sea sponge, sunglasses, or other appropriate items. Have your child feel reach into the bag/box for each item and predict what is in there without looking.

2. Sensory Walk: Fill three dishpans or tubs with water, sand, and canned spinach. The spinach is to represent seaweed. Have your child step into each of the tubs with their bare feet. Small shells could be added in the tub with sand that your child could dig up with their toes.

3. Have child predict what he/she thinks you will be reading about based on the “Feel Bag” and “Sensory Walk”.

Additional Activities:

Art -

1. Fish: Make a fish by taking a paper plate and cutting a triangle out of the paper plate to form the mouth of the fish. Attach the triangle on the opposite side of the paper plate to form the fish’s tail. To decorate the fish have your child tear different colored pieces of paper and glue to the paper plate.

2. Starfish: Using the star fish in the lapbook components, apply glue to the inside of the starfish shape and then sprinkle with dry oatmeal. Let dry and remove excess oatmeal.

3. Sea Scented Play-doh Recipe:

            3 cups of flour

            1.5 ounces cream of tartar

            ¾ cup salt

            3 tbsp. cooking oil

            3 cups water

            1 tbsp. coconut extract

            Yellow food coloring

            Gold glitter

Combine the first five ingredients in a large pot. Whisk together until free of lumps. Stir in the coconut extract and yellow food coloring. Stir the mixture constantly over medium heat until it pulls away from the sides of the pot and forms a large ball. Knead the ball lightly on a flour board until the dough is smooth. (Be careful it is hot.) Knead in the desired amount of glitter. After cooled, store in airtight container.

Science:

1. Wave bottle:  Fill a small water bottle with a little more than half water and add two or three drops of blue food coloring. Mix well and then fill the rest with mineral oil all the way to the top. Put the lid on tightly hot gluing it in place. When the bottle is held sideways and tipped back and forth it will form “waves”. If desired, add a small amount of sand, shells, and sequins before adding the oil and water.

Food –

1. Fun Fish Snack: Put some softened cream cheese which has been tinted blue with a few drops of food colored on Melba toast. Add a few goldfish to the top.

2. Edible Aquarium: Make blue Jell-O following the directions on the box. Pour the Jell-O into clear plastic cups and let them partially set – approximately one hour. Then use gummy fish, Swedish fish-Aqua Life, or fruit snack sharks to push into the Jell-O. Refrigerate for the remaining time and then enjoy!

Bible – Teach the days of creation by reading the creation story to your child. Talk about when oceans were created (day 2), the beach (day 3), the plants and trees (day 3), sun (day 4), fish and birds (day 5), animals (day 6), and people (day 6). Make a creation book.

Relate this to the book Hello, Ocean as a follow-up by looking through the book and having your child tell which day the different things in the book were created. For example, on the first two pages you have people, the beach, the ocean, shrubs, and seagulls pictured.

Just for Fun

1. Spy Jar – Fill a 2 liter empty plastic bottle with sand. Drop small objects in the bottle that relate to the ocean/beach. Glue the lid on the bottle. The child will be able to see different objects as he/she turns the bottle. Have the child name the objects that he/she sees or give clues for a certain object and have the child find it. You could make up a check-off sheet for the child to check as the find the items. For children not reading, put a picture clue next to each word on the check-off list.

2. Five senses game

3. Explore this website-- http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/efc/exhibits.asp