Fish

Last week we focused on fish. I thought about getting the kids a pet fish, but I was concerned about Ethan attacking it with too much love. (Think about that girl from tiny toons, Elmyra...that would be him for sure).  We'll wait until next year.

Goldfish Graphing

As always, we like to play and learn with our food.  

Brielle even requested to do this again another day, probably because she wanted to eat goldfish crackers, but still.

Fish Puzzles

Ethan LOVES to do puzzles.  It is one of the only things I can get him to hold still for.

Pattern Fish

Brielle has finally grasped the concept of patterns, and has been very excited about it.  I laminated this sheet and she picked different patterns to color over and over.  We still need to work on coloring inside the lines. :)

Number Fish

We went fishing.  Which the kids loved and requested to do again and again.

After catching a fish I had them identify the number and then 'feed the fish'. They had to clip on the number of clothes pins to match the number on the fish.

Books

Favorites:
The Deep Blue Sea by Audrey Wood
Ten Little Fish by Audrey Wood
We've gotten these books a few times and my kids love them every time.  They like a lot of Audrey Wood's books.  Brielle requests them quite often.  She has them memorized so she now 'reads' them to Ethan (which makes my job easier!)

We had Dr. Seuss's Red Fish Blue Fish on CD to listen to in the car.  Brielle loves to listen to books and read along.

We also played a lot of Go Fish, and went to the Japanese Garden at City of Hope to feed the fish.

Resources:
Fish Worksheets
Ice-Fishing
Goldfish Graphs