When conducting our ocean research this year, my students and I needed to find a way to record the information we were learning from informational text. I have used Have, Can, Are charts in the past and they worked wonders for this unit! Not only do the students have to recall important details from the text, but they need to decide which category is best for their fact. These charts are wonderful tools for students when writing informational text and compare and contrast writing. Check out…

Your child's imagination will run wild when you make under the sea crafts! With just a few household items your child can be on their own submarine!

My kindergarten class made these "Messages in a bottle" for our "Under the Sea" Open House. They brought in one glass bottle from home and then wrote a message to their parents.

Sea drawing prompts - free printable!

Hi! I'm Teri! I am a first grade teacher and blogger at A Cupcake for the Teacher. On my blog I share classroom ideas, tips and tricks, and K-2 teaching resources. I enjoy writing and crafting, so I love to create activities that tie both together.

Under the Sea Phonics play #LearningIsFun

BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology

Project/Learning Activity: This project is from the June/July 2007 Kindergarten/1st grade Mailbox Magazine Cut a wave out of blue construction paper. Color the top half of a piece of paper with blue crayon and glue the wave to the bottom half. Add sea/ocean stickers to the wave. Write - What Do You See Under the Sea? over the blue crayon. Brainstorm things you see under the sea and write one of the ideas under the wave. Finally, draw the idea under the sentence. Materials Needed: blue…

My kids have spent the last 8 weeks learning about the ocean! I thought I would share some of the fun things that we have done during our ocean unit because they might make fun end of school year activities. I won't be sharing any specific curriculum that my school developed- but I will share things I came up with of that I purchased on TpT. First, I introduce my ocean unit by telling the kids that I came across this help wanted ad for a Marine Biologist. I act just as serious as can be…

Pie Corbett's writing games printed on separate A5 sheets. These are a selection of his best games as published at www.everybodywrites.org.uk and slightly edited to fit to an A5 format....

This one is backwards but oh well. For our under the sea unit. "What I see under the sea" book. Have students cut color the goggles and cut out the inside part. Laminate so it is see through. Next is cover page then on the next pages students draw or use stickers of what sea creatures. On each page they write "I see a ___." staple a bendy straw and voila! They loved it.

Killer whale craftivity. Under the sea, ocean theme writing and craft activities!

$ Report writing can be challenging for students. Use these “Under the Sea Animal” tiered report writing templates with your students as they work through the report writing process.

$ Report writing can be challenging for students. Use these “Under the Sea Animal” tiered report writing templates with your students as they work through the report writing process.