This unit is clearly linked to common core standards. The Ocean, is divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, worksheets, science, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation.

Table of Contents:

Scripted Literacy Lessons:
The Hungry Sharks: Decoding Words
Ocean Sounds: Blending and Segmenting Words
The Fishing Race: Naming Alphabet Letters Fluently
Diving For Digraphs: Matching Beginning Sounds to Digraphs
Fish Bowl: Reading Sight Words

Literacy Independent Activities:
It Sounds Like: Reading Like Words
Color the Ocean: Reading Color Words
Oceans of Letters: Tracing Upper and Lowercase Letters A-Z

Scripted Math Lessons With Independent Options:
The Diver: Counting Forward From a Given Number
Ocean Graphing: Graphing Objects
Sinking Ships: Counting and Matching Quantity

Math Independent Activities:
Fish Numbers: Writing Sequential Numbers
Number Trace: Tracing Numbers 1-50
Fishing For Numbers: Identify and Writing Numbers 0-20
Catch & Release: Identifying and Writing Teen Numbers

Songs/Fingerplays
My Bonnie
The Octopus
Five Little Fishes

Art Projects
A School of Fish
Rainbow Fish: Portfolio Sample
Jellyfish

Science
Wave Bottle: Mixing Ingredients

Guided Reading Books
At the Bottom of the Ocean

Writing
Ocean Word Wall
The Deep Blue Sea
If I Met a Shark

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