Ocean theme

I thought I'd put some pics up of what we're busy with this week with our Ocean themed lapbook.

Andy loves the ocean and it's creatures and I'm continually amazed at the amount of detail and information he absorbs and remembers. Reading theme related library books as well has armed him with everyday phrases such as 'porcupine fish are very ugly' and 'dolphins jump up out of the water to breath through their breath hole' and his favourite breed of shark is specifically the Tiger Shark. As a stroke of luck we spotted an article about Tiger Sharks in one of the diving magazines while house-sitting for my mother-in-law this past weekend and Andy really enjoyed the pictures.

Here is a few pics from our Ocean Lapbook that we are working on...

Accordion book - colouring each creature a different colour...


This is a cut and paste layer book activity on Sea Gulls - I read it to Andy and he cut out and paste the pictures...


This is collection of Ocean poems and songs in a layer book - each one has a picture and Andy really enjoyed singing the songs and listening to the poems...


A colour and paste activity to make your own sand castle...


Some counting star fish cards...


A mini book recording the theme related books we borrowed from the library and how Andy liked them...


A few variaties of different sharks - Andy loved hearing about the different sharks cause sharks are the best creatures in the whole world according to him...


And a previously blogged about 'fishy emotions matching game' that Andy pasted at the back of his lapbook...


This is a jelly fish craft which Andy made today and which he thoroughly enjoyed...


A paper lobster hand puppet... the orignal craft is made out of a toilet roll but that would be rather difficult to fit into the back pocket of a lapbook so we made it out of red card which works just as well but can become completely flat...


We'll still be doing the Ocean theme for another week so I'll be putting up some more ocean pics soon. We got most of our templates for our Ocean Lapbook from Homeschool Share.