Exploring Animals in the Marine Ecosystem

 

A sudden change in weather made us look into the world of marine animals.  Per usual, we use Safari Toob Animal Figures (Safari Ltd Coral Reef Toob and Toob Toobs Sharks Miniatures ), Marine Animal Cards which I created a long time ago, books from the library (see affiliate list for the details) and some paper crafts for our mini project.

 

For books here’s the list:

• Ponds Nature Trails
• Oceans
• Rivers and Streams Nature Trails
• Seashores Nature Trails
• What is an Ocean?

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First things first, we look at pictures of shorelines, tropical oceans and temperate oceans.  As we do, we differentiate the temperate and tropical oceans and mark their location in the globe.  Seen below Mavi trying to draw oceans and the shoreline.

 

Since we seldom go to the beach (once a year?), I am not surprise my son doesn’t know what a shoreline is.  I guess, the next time we visit Philippines, we have to go to the beach everyday (my parent’s house is near the beach!).

 

We talked about animals adapting to their habitat, and this lead to look into aquatic and terrestrial turtles.  As seen below, aquatic turtles have flippers instead of feet.

Take note though, that as we are having this activity, our little Vito is having a good time with our toob boxes LOL.  I will talk about him and his activities next week as I am still finding space for his toys and materials.  You see have a very limited space at home so as much as possible I don’t purchase stuff that much as well.

 

To wrap up our lesson, we created the marine ecosystems in paper crafts (Mavi’s work is on the right).