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April 27-May 1 Curriculum & Activity Guide
Monday 3
9:00 Circle activity: Parts of a fish 3 11:00-11:15 Music & movement; 11:15-11:30 activity: Toilet paper roll koi fish 3 3:00 Enrichment: Music 3
Parts of a Fish 4 Toilet Paper Roll Koi Fish 5
Additional activities: 6 How to Draw a Fish 6 Greater Than Lesser Than with Fish 7 Nature Arrangement/Bouquet 9
Tuesday 12 9:00 Circle activity: Lifecycle of a fish 12 11:00-11:15 Music & movement; 11:15-11:30 activity: Jellyfish lunch 12 3:00 Enrichment: Spanish-learn spanish through music & movement 12
Life Cycle of a Fish 12 Jellyfish Lunch 14 Spanish Vocabulary 15
Additional activities: 17 Homemade Bubbles 17 Origami Boat Activity 19
Numerals & Counters 22
Wednesday 23 9:00 Circle activity: Fish that live in Lake Chabot 23 11:00-11:15 Music & movement; 11:15-11:30 Activity: Celery stamping rainbow fish 23 3:00-3:15 Music & movement; 3:15-3:30 Food preparation enrichment: Making homemade goldfish 23
Fish that live in Lake Chabot 23 Celery Stamping Rainbow Fish 25 Food preparation Enrichment: Making homemade goldfish! 26
Additional Activities: 27 Addition with Goldfish Crackers 27 Oatmeal Breakfast Bowl 29 Recycling Activity 30
Thursday 31 9:00 Circle Activity: Ocean Animals 31 11:00-11:15 Music & movement; 11:15-11:30 Activity: Toilet paper roll octopus 31 3:00-3:15 Music & movement; Science enrichment: How do fish survive when the water they live in freezes? 31
Ocean Animals 31 Toilet Paper Roll Octopus 32 Science Enrichment: How do fish survive when water freezes? 34
Additional Activities: 35 SInk or Float in Salt Water 35 Ocean Food Chain 36 Ocean in an Egg Carton 37
Friday 39 9:00 Circle activity: Schools of fish 39 11:00-11:15 Music & movement; 11:15-11:30 Activity: Paper fish art 39 3:00-3:15 Music & movement; 3:15-3:30 Art enrichment: Coloring mixing fish painting 39
School of Fish Art 39 Paper Fish Art 41 Friday Art Enrichment: Color mixing painting 43
Additional Activities: 44 Caring for Fish in our Environment 44 Go Fishing Snack 46 Fishing Sensory Bin 47
Printables: 48 How to draw a fish (1 of 2) 48 Life cycle of a fish 50 Addition with goldfish (1 of 4) 51 Fish that live in lake Chabot (1 of 2) 55
Numerals & counters 57 School of fish (1 of 2) 58 Spanish enrichment: vocabulary words 60 Art enrichment (1 or 2) 62
Monday
9:00 Circle activity: Parts of a fish
11:00-11:15 Music & movement; 11:15-11:30 activity: Toilet paper roll koi fish
3:00 Enrichment: Music
Parts of a Fish Materials:
● Printed cards from PDF link ● Scissors
Directions:
1. Cut the cards from the PDF link provided. 2. Invite the child 3. Introduce the activity and invite your child
to help gather materials. 4. From left to right layout the card labeled
fish. Say “ this is a fish”. 5. Layout another card and tell the child the
name of that part. 6. Continue until you’ve covered all the parts
of the fish. 7. Have the child match the corresponding body part and name label. 8. Return materials to the proper place.
Purpose: The child learns the parts of the fish and increases their vocabulary. Extensions:
● The child can create a booklet and color and label the parts of the fish themselves.
Toilet Paper Roll Koi Fish Materials:
● Paper tube ● White paper (for draw a fin and tail) ● Paint + paint palette for mixing ● Glue (suggestion: a hot glue gun or tacky glue for stick
cork to paper tube) ● Scissor ● Black permanent marker
Optional:
● Cork to make eyes (you can make with white paper) ● Staple
Directions:
1. Invite your child. 2. Introduce the activity and invite your child to help gather materials. 3. Paint tubes (fish bodies). 4. Draw fins and a tail on the white paper. 5. Cut out fin shapes. 6. Cut out the tail shape and then cut some details on the tips of your tails. 7. Paint your fins and tail. 8. Insert finished tails inside your paper tube. (You can glue or staple your paper
tube to your tail). 9. Trim the outer edge of your tube to create more of an angled body shape. 10. Insert your fins by using glue. 11.You can make your eyes with whatever you have on hand, but we decided to
make ours out of cork! A little black marker and a touch of paint does the trick and insert to your Koi fish.
12.You can enhance your fish lips with a strip of coral paper.
Purpose:
● To develop hand-eye coordination ● To practice cutting, folding, and glueing
Extensions:
● Use a different color to design a different kind of fish.
Additional activities:
How to Draw a Fish Materials:
● Paper ● Pencil ● Markers or colored pencils or crayons ● How to draw a fish printable *see at end of guide
Instructions:
1. Invite your child 2. Introduce the activity and invite your child to help gather the materials needed. 3. Show them the steps to drawing a fish.
Greater Than Lesser Than with Fish
Materials:
● Scissors ● Fish and alligator cut-outs from both PDF links ● Numeral cut-outs
Instructions:
1. Cut out all materials from PDF links. 2. Invite the child. 3. Invite your child to help gather the materials needed. 4. Decide how many fish to place on each side. 5. Have the child count each set of fish. 6. The child will place the less-than sign, <, greater than sign, >, or equals sign, =
depending on the amount of fish on each side. 7. For example, in photo 1 there are three fish on the left side and two fish on the
right side. The greater than sign should be used because there are more fish on the left side. 3 is greater than 2.
8. In the second photo, there are two fish on the left side and three fish on the right side. The less than sign should be used because two is than three.
9. In the third photo, there are two fish on the left side and two fish on the right side. The equals sign should be used because two is equal to two. There is the same amount of fish on each side.
10.Continue to do this with different quantities on each side. 11.When you are done return materials to the proper place.
Extensions:
● You can use print outs of the numerals to place underneath each quantity of fish. ● You can use numerals only to challenge the child. ● If your child is ready use 2 digit, 3 digit and 4 digit numbers.
Nature Arrangement/Bouquet
Nature Arrangement Materials:
● Jar ● Flowers, branches and tall grasses collected from outside ● Ribbon or yarn
Directions:
1. Invite your child. 2. Introduce the activity and ask your child to help gather the supplies needed. 3. Take a walk and invite your child to collect natural materials outside. 4. Place the materials in a jar 5. Add a little water to preserve the arrangement
Nature Bouquet: Materials:
● Thick paper ● Dry flowers from your garden ● Small dry branches, and dry leaves ● Super Glue or hot glue gun ● Ribbon or yarn ● String ● Foam
Directions:
1. Invite your child. 2. Introduce the activity and ask your child to help you gather supplies out in the
garden. 3. Either make a cone shape with the paper and glue the ends or make a square
pocket with the paper. 4. Let it dry for a few minutes. 5. Cut a piece of yarn or ribbon and glue it to the back of the cone or pocket. 6. Put the foam inside the cone. 7. Put your twigs and dry flower inside the cone or the pocket. 8. Make sure all your findings are secure with the ribbon or yarn. 9. If you like you can make a nice bow and place it on your beautiful bouquet.
ENJOY IT!!
Purpose:
● Teamwork, and spending time with your child. ● Learning about nature. ● Hand eye coordination, fine motor skills.
Extensions:
● Find smooth rock and paint them for the making of a bouquet of flowers.
● Use mason glass and decorate them with lace, glue twigs around.
Tuesday
9:00 Circle activity: Lifecycle of a fish
11:00-11:15 Music & movement; 11:15-11:30 activity: Jellyfish lunch
3:00 Enrichment: Spanish-learn spanish through music & movement
Life Cycle of a Fish
Materials :
● Life cycle of a fish printable *see end of guide ● Crayons/color pencils
Instructions:
1. Invite your child. 2. Introduce the activity and invite your child to help gather the materials. 3. Explain the life cycle of fish in simple terms pointing out to each stage. Fish are
Ovi-par-ous (oviparous) because they lay eggs to give birth to the baby fish. The fertilized eggs hatch baby fish called “Fry”. Fry develops into adult fish.
4. Have them color each stage. 5. Review the names of the stages.
Purpose:
● The life cycle helps them to understand how life starts from small units.
● It explains how animals develop into stages before they are fully grown.
● It teaches them vocabulary such as “oviparous”, fry, adult, etc.
Extension:
1. Learning about other animals’ life cycle such as bugs, butterflies, turtles help them understand the life cycle better.
2. It provides the opportunity to figure out the difference in each animal’s life cycle. 3. Life cycles can be learned more closely if they can learn watching the life cycle of
fertilized chicken eggs.
Jellyfish Lunch Materials:
● Pita bread or sandwich bread or waffle
● Cheese and /or deli turkey ● A plate
Directions:
1. Invite your child. 2. Introduce the activity and invite your child to gather materials needed. 3. Cut the pita bread (or alternative) into half, to form the umbrella of jellyfish. 4. Cut a slice of cheese or deli turkey into the tentacles. 5. Place on a plate. 6. Eat & enjoy.
Purpose:
● Develop hand-eye coordination ● Develop independence
Extensions
● You can add some vegetables such as celery to form plants under the sea, or add some goldfish crackers around.
Spanish Vocabulary VOCABULARIO EN ESPANOL
ANIMALS ANIMALES
FIRST PICTURE:
● EL PERRO. ● The dog ● EL CERDO AND PUERCO (2 NAMES) ● The pig ● EL RATON ● The mouse ● EL BURRO ● The donkey ● EL GATO ● The cat ● LA TORTUGA --- The Turtle SECOND PICTIRE:
● EL ELEFANTE ● The elephant ● EL LEON ● The lion ● EL TIGRE ● The tiger ● EL TIGRE BLANCO ● The White tiger
● EL OSO PANDA ● The panda bear ● EL PINGUINO ● The penguin ● EL OSO POLAR ● The polar bear
SONG: PASA, PASA, PASA. (Pass it) PARA!!! (stop) Children sit in a circle and I pass animals to the first child one at a time. The children pass the animal to the child sitting next to her/him. When I say “PARA” “STOP”. The children stop passing the animals. I ask each child the name of the animal they cached.
Additional activities:
Homemade Bubbles
Materials:
● 6. Cups of water. ● 2. cups Dawn dishwashing liquid. ● ¾. cup light corn syrup. ● large container or an empty water bottle, milk jug.
Directions:
● Invite your child. ● Introduce the activity and invite your child to help gather the materials needed. ● Mix the ingredients together in a large container. ● Shake everything and let it sit for a few hours. ● Pour Into empty bubbles bottles containers or dishes. ● Use different size wands.
Purpose:
● Hand eye coordination ● Independence ● Having fun
Origami Boat Activity Materials:
● Rectangular piece of paper (any color you want your boat ● Water container ● Blue food coloring ● Ocean toys animals (if you have them)
Directions: Origami Boat Activity Materials:
● Rectangular piece of paper ( different coloured paper to practice will be awesome).
● Water container ● Blue food coloring ● Ocean toys animals
Directions: Practice doing the origami boat yourself. Once you master doing the origami boat invite your child to do it and help him with the steps.
1. Start with the rectangular piece of paper coloured side up. 2. Fold in half downwards. 3. Bring the corners in to the centre line. 4. Fold the uppermost layer upwards and do the same to the back. 5. Pull the sides out and flatten. 6. Fold front layer up to the top, and do the same to the back 7. Pull The sides outward and flatten.
After your child built the origami boat, invite the child to fill the container with water, add blue food coloring and ocean toy animals and let him explore and play. You can sing row, row, row your boat song and talk about ocean animals and observe how the origami boat floats over the water. Purpose:
● Develop child concentration. ● Eyes and hand coordination ● Encourage child creativity.
Extensions.
● Engage children in origami art. ● Introduce the child into History about paper and origami. ● Discuss with your child about recycling
(Practice doing the origami boat yourself. Once you master doing the origami boat invite your child to do it and help him with the steps).
1. Invite your child. 2. Introduce the activity and invite your child to help gather the materials needed. 3. Start with the rectangular piece of paper coloured side up. 4. Fold in half downwards. 5. Bring the corners in to the centre line. 6. Fold the uppermost layer upwards and do the same to the back. 7. Pull the sides out and flatten. 8. Fold front layer up to the top, and do the same to the back 9. Pull The sides outward and flatten.
After your child builds the origami boat, invite your child to fill the container with water, add blue food coloring, ocean toy animals and let him explore and play. You can sing row, row, row your boat song and talk about ocean animals and observe how the origami boat floats over the water. Purpose:
● Develops hand- eye coordination ● Encourages creativity
Extensions.
● Engage children in origami art. ● Introduce the child into History about paper and origami. ● Discuss with your child about recycling
Numerals & Counters Materials:
● Numeral & counter fish bowl printable *see at the end of the guide
● Scissors ● Counters (small objects your child can count for
example: beans, plastic fish, goldfish crackers or cereal
Directions:
1. Invite your child. 2. Introduce the activity and invite your child to help gather the materials needed. 3. Cut out the fish bowls from the printable. 4. Place the fish bowls in sequence at the top of your child’s work space. 5. Take the card with a 1 and say, “this is one.” Pickup one counter and place it
under the card and say “this is one.” 6. Take the card with a 2 and say, “this is two.” Pickup one counter and say, “one.”
Pick up the second counter and say, “two, this is two.” 7. Repeat until you get to nine or as long as your child is interested.
Purpose:
● Numeral & quantity recognition ● Concentration ● Hand-eye coordination
Extensions:
● Mix up the numeral cards and invite your child to sequence them. ● Practice addition and subtraction using cards & quantities.
Wednesday
9:00 Circle activity: Fish that live in Lake Chabot
11:00-11:15 Music & movement; 11:15-11:30 Activity: Celery stamping rainbow fish
3:00-3:15 Music & movement; 3:15-3:30 Food preparation enrichment: Making homemade goldfish
Fish that live in Lake Chabot
Materials:
● Print pictures of Fish that Live in Lake Chabot from the end of the guide. ● Scissors ● Glue stick
Directions:
1. Invite your child 2. Introduce the activity and invite your child to collect the materials you need. 3. Cut out the pictures of the fish. 4. Match the pictures. 5. Read the names of the fish. 6. Glue them on a piece of paper. 7. Invite your child to write the names of the fish.
Extensions: ● Use the “How to Draw a Fish” instructions and draw each fish to make a book. ● Research fish that live in other lakes your child is familiar with.
Celery Stamping Rainbow Fish
Materials:
● White paper or Printable fish template ● Celery or sponge cut into a half circle ● Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple paint ● Googly eye or you can draw the eye ● Glue
Directions:
1. Cut up one stick of celery into 6 pieces. 2. Put out rainbow colored paints and have the kids dip each one. Starting from the
front of the fish, stamp the celery to make it look like fish scales! 3. The children can also paint the fins and tail if they want! 4. Add googly eye
Purpose:
● Fine Motor Development ● Hand-Eye Coordination and Control ● Color recognition and creating new colours.
Food preparation Enrichment: Making homemade goldfish! We will be making homemade goldfish. In preparation for the class please prepare a fish cookie cutter: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Cookie-Cutters-from-Regular-Aluminum-Foil ● 1 cup (120g) plain or whole wheat flour ● 8 oz (220g) sharp/ extra sharp cheddar cheese – shredded (preferably orange ones) ● 60g unsalted butter, cold (cut into cubes) ● ¼ -½ teaspoons salt ● 2 tablespoons cold water
Additional Activities:
Addition with Goldfish Crackers
Materials:
1. Goldfish crackers (blueberries, cereal, grapes etc) 2. Goldfish addition printables *see at end of guide 3. Number cards (print out and cut both 1-10 and 1-20)
Instructions:
1. Invite your child. 2. Introduce activity and invite your child to help gather materials. 3. Present an addition problem that is appropriate for your child. For example:
1+1= _ or 5+4=_ 4. Let your child fill each fish shape with the numbers of goldfish. 5. Have him transfer goldfish from both the fish shapes to the fish shape on the
right side of the equals to (=) sign. (If the numbers you have presented are greater and the total numbers of fish do not fit into that fish shape, you can cut out a fishbowl and have him transfer fish to the bowl to count).
6. Have your child count the total number of goldfish now. 7. Continue presenting the child with repeated addition problems or the newer ones
as needed.
Purpose:
1. Concept of addition. 2. Numeral recognition.
Extension:
● You can print and cut out the fish bowl. ● Have them create their own addition problem and find the
answer. ● As they master the small numbers, children can use 10 digits numbers to solve
additional problems.
Jellyfish Beading
Materials:
● White paper plate (or thick white paper) ● Yarn or pipe cleaners ● A pair of scissors ● A black marker (draw the face) ● Blue and green paint (dots) ● Color beads or pasta
Directions:
1. Invite your child. 2. Introduce the materials and invite your child to help gather the supplies needed. 3. Have your child draw the face on the plate (or decorate the plate as they wish). 4. Punch 6 holes on one side of the plate. 5. Cut the yarn 16 or 18 inch long. Put each through the holes. 6. Make a knot at the ends. 7. Use beads or pasta noodles to put on the string.
Purpose:
● Developing fine motor control and hand-eye coordination Extensions:
● Cut out different fish ● Use cardboard ● Trace and cut out a fish shape, invite your child to sew around the fishes body
Oatmeal Breakfast Bowl Materials:
● A fruit with the similar size and shape of a plum, or an apple, or an orange ● Oatmeal ● Blueberries (cheerios or alternative if you don’t have blueberries) ● Banana ● A bowl
Directions:
1. Invite your child. 2. Introduce the activity and invite your child to help gather the materials needed. 3. Prepare oatmeal. 4. Cut a slice of fruit, such as plum, or apple, or orange to form the fish body. 5. Cut another slice of fruit to form the tail. 6. Add a banana to make the fish eye. 7. If you have blueberries, put one on top of the circle. 8. Put some blueberries, or cereal circles around to form the fish bubbles.
Purpose:
● To learn the parts of a fish. ● To develop hand-eye coordination and concentration.
Extensions:
● You may add some green fruit or vegetables like kiwi, or cucumber at the bottom.
● You may add cereal as the base.
Recycling Activity Introduction: The PDF has a lot of information about recycling, please tailor it to the developmental level of your child. Please reach out and ask if you aren’t sure. Materials: PDF print out on the Hubbli resource page Scissors Directions:
1. Invite you child. 2. Introduce the activity and invite your child to help gather materials needed. 3. Decide how much information will be useful for your child. 4. Cut out the various recycling bins. 5. Cut out pictures for your child to sort. 6. Describe what materials go in each bin. 7. Sort out the materials in the appropriate bins.
Purpose: Learning how to sort recycling Learning the importance of recycling Extensions: Make a poster to attach on the garbage bins in your home.
Thursday
9:00 Circle Activity: Ocean Animals
11:00-11:15 Music & movement; 11:15-11:30 Activity: Toilet paper roll octopus
3:00-3:15 Music & movement; Science enrichment: How do fish survive when the water they live in freezes?
Ocean Animals Materials:
● Ocean animal PDF *see attachment on the Hubbli resource page ● Scissors
Directions:
1. Invite your child. 2. Introduce the activity and invite your child to help gather the materials needed. 3. Prepare “3 part cards” by cutting out the images and labels on the black lines.
See the example below:
4. Sort the cards into 3 piles : the cards with the pictures & labels together, the
cards with just the pictures and the cards with just the words. 5. Lay out the cards with the pictures & labels together and say the name of the
animal. 6. Ask your child to match the pictures. 7. Ask your child to match the labels.
Purpose: ● Learn the names of animals that live in the ocean ● Graphic matching ● Language enrichment
Extensions:
● Make a book of ocean animals ● Paint an ocean and glue on the cards ● Sort fish from non fish cards
Toilet Paper Roll Octopus
Materials:
● A toilet paper roll ● Materials to decorate the octopus ● Paint & a q-tip ● Scissors
Directions:
1. Invite your child. 2. Introduce the activity and invite your child to help gather the materials. 3. Cut slits in the toilet roll all the way around to create arms. 4. Dip a Q-tip with glitter or paint to add "suckers" to the octopus' arms.
Purpose:
● Develop fine motor skills & hand-eye coordination. ● To develop the sense of reuse materials and protecting the environment.
Extensions:
● You may use construction paper to make the octopus instead. ● You may have your child decorate the octopus by painting the paper roll etc.
Science Enrichment: How do fish survive when water freezes? We will be learning about how fish breathe and how they can stay alive when the pond or lake they are living in freezes over. If you would like to follow along with the experiment you will need:
● Water in a small pitcher or glass ● A paper towel or coffee filter ● Some soil or dirt from your backyard or planter ● Ice cubes ● Water frozen (about one inch deep) in a small flat bottom dish like a small pyrex
dish or small baking pan ● A larger container (like a larger tupperware) half filled with water
Additional Activities:
SInk or Float in Salt Water Materials:
● Two cups or deep bowls ● Salt ● Two uncooked eggs ● Water
Instructions:
1. Invite your child. 2. Invite your child to help gather
the materials needed. 3. Fill the first cup halfway with water. 4. Label it, plain water. 5. Fill the second cup halfway with water and mix 3 tablespoons of salt. 6. Stir until dissolved. 7. Label this cup, saltwater. 8. Ask the child if they think the egg will float or sink in the cup labeled plain water. 9. Gently place the egg in the plain water cup. 10.Ask the child if they think the egg will float or sink in the cup labeled saltwater. 11.Gently place the egg in the saltwater cup. 12.Observe and talk about why or why or not the egg floats or sinks. 13. When finished remove the eggs and dry before placing them back in the
refrigerator. 14.Empty the water from the cups and dry. 15.Return the rest of the materials to the proper place.
Purpose:
● To learn about density. ● Learn how to create a hypothesis and test it.
Extensions:
● You can use different objects to see if they float or sink. ● You can test sugar water and baking soda to see if objects sink or float.
*Fun Fact: Salt in the ocean comes from rocks on land. The rain breaks down the rocks on land and carries the mineral, salt, to nearby streams that eventually lead into the ocean. How cool is that!
Ocean Food Chain
Materials: ● Printable PDF file ● Scissors
Instructions:
1. Cut the cards out from the PDF file. 2. From left to right place the Orca card down. 3. The next card to be placed down is the shark. 4. In this order, barracuda, moray eel, octopus, hermit
crab, zooplankton, and phytoplankton, should be laid out.
5. Go over each name and explain what creature they eat and who eats them.
6. Return the materials to the proper place when done. Purpose: Learns about food chains and how each sea creature is important to one another. Extensions:
● You can print out two sets of the cards and have the child match them. ● You can use the second PDF link to print and cut out the ocean Russian dolls.
Tape or glue each cut out into rings so that they stand up by themselves. Use these to explain what each creature eats and who eats them.
Ocean in an Egg Carton
Materials:
● Egg carton ● Blue paint ● Glitter glue (optional) ● Small shells or pebbles from your yard ● Colored paper or card ● Tissue paper ● Plastic gems (Optional) ● Colored foam sheets (optional) ● Glue and scissors
Directions:
1. Paint the egg cartoon with blue paint.
2. While the paint was drying, draw and cut out some little fish from colored paper.
3. Cut some seaweed from green paper or foam.
4. Glue shells, pebbles, fish, and seaweeds to decorate your ocean.
Purpose:
● Develop hand-eye coordination & fine motor control
Extension:
● Create different biomes.
Friday
9:00 Circle activity: Schools of fish
11:00-11:15 Music & movement; 11:15-11:30 Activity: Paper fish art
3:00-3:15 Music & movement; 3:15-3:30 Art enrichment: Coloring mixing fish painting
School of Fish Art Introduction: Some fish swim in schools to protect themselves from predators. Materials:
● Fish shape printable * see at the end of the guide
● Push pin ● Carpet square or foam mat ● Markers or crayons or colored pencils ● Card stock (optional) ● Large piece of paper (optional) ● Blue paint (optional)
Directions:
1. Print out fish shapes on card stock if you have it. 2. Invite your child. 3. Introduce the activity and invite your child to help gather materials needed. 4. Cut out the squares with the fish images. 5. Using a push pin and a mat to poke on, poke out the fish image on the line. 6. Decorate the fish. 7. Paint a large piece of paper blue (optional). 8. When the painting is dry, glue the fish onto the paper. 9. Talk to your child about why fish swim in schools.
Purpose:
● Learn about schools of fish ● Development of hand-eye coordination
● Development of fine motor skills Extensions:
● Share images of fish swimming in schools with your child: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/schools-fish/
Paper Fish Art
Materials:
● 2 different colored construction paper ● Scissors ● Glue stick (or tape) ● Googly eye (if you don’t have googly eyes, you can draw the eyes or make them
with white paper)
Directions:
1. Invite your child.
2. Introduce activity and invite your child to help gather materials. Fold the paper into a triangle.
3. Cut excess paper off the bottom.
4. Fold both sides of the paper to the middle line and then unfold.
5. Fold the paper back in half.
6. Cut along the side of the paper. Cut to the middle line of the paper.
7. Open up the paper. Glue the two uncut sides together (or use tape).
8. For the mouth, cut out a half circle and glue onto the fish.
9. Use different color paper to make fins and tail
10. Add googly eyes, draw or make eyes out of paper.
Purpose:
● Development of hand-eye coordination ● Fine motor coordination and control ● Development of scissor skill
Extensions : You can make more than one fish and hang it with a stick to create a mobile.
Friday Art Enrichment: Color mixing painting This week we will be exploring primary colors and how to make secondary colors. Following the color mixing activity we’ll be painting a fish. Materials:
● Color mixing printable (at end of the guide) ● Fish picture printable (at the end of the guide) ● Red, blue and yellow paint ● A cup of water ● Paint brush ● A paint palette or recycled piece of plastic to pour paint onto
Additional Activities:
Caring for Fish in our Environment
Materials: ● A sponge cut into the shape of a
fish. ● A deep bowl ● Dirt, bottle caps, small pieces of
paper, green water. Directions:
1. Invite the child. 2. Place the sponge in the bowl and
introduce the fish’s name, Freddie the Fish.
3. Tell the story of Freddie the fish who swims down the stream and encounters some obstacles.
4. “One day Freddie went for a morning swim down the stream he lives in. Freddie noticed colored circles floating up ahead.”
5. As you say this you can put the bottle caps into the bowl. 6. “Freddie didn’t know what they were but it was a little hard to swim without
bumping into the bottle caps. Then Freddie saw a brown cloud up ahead.” 7. Pour in the dirt into the bowl. 8. “Freddie could hardly see but he tried his best to keep swimming. Up ahead was
a pipe that transferred water that comes from the drains in the street. Except the water looked green!”
9. Pour the green water into the bowl. 10. “ Freddie tried to swim faster to get through this cloud of yucky green. Then he
saw white fish. He felt relieved.” 11.Put in the white pieces of paper. 12. “ When Freddie approached the white fish he realized they weren’t fish. Freddie
swam faster to get through these pieces of trash. He made it to the end of the stream and realized he was covered in all kinds of pollutants”.
13.Ask your child “What can we do to take care of Freddie Fish? 14.Have a discussion with your child about properly disposing of trash and recycling. 15.Say, “Freddie fish is a healthier and happier fish because of you and your ideas.” 16. Talk about pollutants in the water and how that makes Freddie sad. 17. Invite your child to help clean up.
Purpose: To teach children how to take care of the environment and the fish that live in the ocean. Children will learn different ways to keep fish like Freddie safe. Extension:
● Use different objects to see how it affects Freddie the fish. ● Recycle the bottle caps by using them in an art project. ● Use the sponge to stamp fish shapes on paper.
Go Fishing Snack
This snack can be made with hummus, carrots & goldfish or nut butter, celery and goldfish. Materials:
● Celery ● Nut butter ● Goldfish crackers
OR ● Carrots ● Hummus ● Goldfish crackers
Directions:
1. Invite your child. 2. Introduce the activity and invite your child to help gather materials needed. 3. Wash and cut carrots or celery and put onto a plate 4. Scoop nut butter or hummus onto a plate or in a small bowl 5. Pour goldfish onto the plate 6. Dip the celery or carrot into the nut butter or hummus and “fish” for the goldfish.
Purpose:
● Snack preparation ● Fine motor control & hand-eye coordination
Extensions:
● Use different vegetables
Fishing Sensory Bin
Material:
● Blue colored rice
● Clean Bin With lid (easier to store)
● Craft foam or cardboard
● Scissors
● Paperclip
● Stick
● Ribbon
Directions:
1. Prepare the rice.
2. Add the rice to a bin with a lid (your child can use a small plastic pitcher to help
fill the bin).
3. Cut fish shapes out of the craft foam or cardboard (invite your child to help).
4. Add a couple of paper clips to the fish.
5. Tie a ribbon onto a stick to serve as a fishing pole. To the end of the ribbon tie a
magnet. Show your child how to tie the ribbon and ask to try.
6. The assembly is done! Children can now choose to go fishing!
Purpose:
● Develop hand-eye coordination & fine motor skills
● Develop concentration
Extension:
● Introduction of magnetism for older children
● Extend the different kinds of fish species and their features.
● Add letters or numbers and attach a paper clip
Printables:
How to draw a fish (1 of 2)
How to draw a fish (2 of 2)
Life cycle of a fish
Addition with goldfish (1 of 4)
Addition with goldfish (2 of 4)
+ =
Addition with goldfish (3 of 4)
Addition with goldfish (4 of 4)
Fish that live in lake Chabot (1 of 2)
crappie
catfish
largemouth bass
rainbow trout
Fish that live in Lake Chabot (2 of 2)
crappie
catfish
largemouth bass
rainbow trout
Numerals & counters
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
School of fish (1 of 2)
School of fish (2 of 2)
Spanish enrichment: vocabulary words SPANISH VOCABULARY
VOCABULARIO EN ESPANOL ANIMALS
ANIMALES
FIRST PICTURE: ● EL PERRO. ● The dog ● EL CERDO AND PUERCO (2 NAMES) ● The pig ● EL RATON ● The mouse ● EL BURRO ● The donkey ● EL GATO ● The cat ● LA TORTUGA --- The Turtle SECOND PICTIRE:
● EL ELEFANTE ● The elephant ● EL LEON ● The lion ● EL TIGRE ● The tiger ● EL TIGRE BLANCO ● The White tiger ● EL OSO PANDA ● The panda bear ● EL PINGUINO ● The penguin ● EL OSO POLAR ● The polar bear
SONG: PASA, PASA, PASA. (Pass it) PARA!!! (stop) Children sit in a circle and I pass animals to first child one at a time. The children pass the animal to the child sitting next to her/him. When I say “PARA” “STOP”. The children stop passing the animals. I ask each child the name of the animal they cached.
Art enrichment (1 or 2)
Enrichment: Art (2 of 2)
red yellow
yellow blue
blue red