Children LOVE to study oceans and the life inside of them. Shells, fish, whales, coral, water...especially the octopus! In all my years as lead "awakener" here at Woolsey Academy, the octopus ranks right up there in preschool land with the dinosaur. It has 8 arms or tentacles, it has a squishy body, it squirts black ink it has suction cups!!! What isn't to LOVE about these amazing creatures of the deep? This month our educational partners at Mother Goose Time paid homage to this amazing ocean dweller with this sweet study and craft. They provided a math study counting it's arms by adding and subtracting to make 8. We added another lesson to that curing our S.T.E.A.M. project by adding these fun round stickers to create "suckers" on the tentacles as we counted how many we added. We then brought a little introduction of multiplication as we stated that, "If I have 2 suckers on each arm (8 arms total), how many do I have all together?" We counted by 2's and then we observed that we had 16! After reading the book, "How To Hide An Octopus", we pretended to be an octopus and find camouflage to hide in, on, and under. We practiced using these positional words (pre-math and language comprehension) as our older children assisted our littler ones in performing the task. |
Life is made of moments..."There isn't anything more full of hope, joy and peace than a child's smile... It captures the mundane and makes it extraordinary." - LaDonna Woolsey I am a Mother Goose Time Blogger. I decided to become one after trying their products because I they are comprehensive and serve my mixed age group well. I do receive products to review from Mother Goose Time and do so with my own honest and thorough opinions. For more information, please contact me at Ladonna@woolseyacademy.com
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