This is a sponsored post as part of my Brand Ambassadorship with Teach Starter.
Teach Starter regularly offers great freebies, just like this Jellyfish craft. This would be such a great activity to do for the day (or week) you are learning about the letter "j"! Although we basically finished our alphabet work last term, this fun jelly fish craft looks like a lot of fun to tie in with our ocean theme. Miss M was keen to try it out for me (like she often does!). It looks so pretty with water colours and glitter! All it needs now is to have some scrunched up paper stuffed in the middle to give it that 3D effect and staple around the edge.
I'm always looking for ways to integrate several subjects and lessons together which is where theme learning can work really well. Such as with a simple sheet like this one, the children can practise their counting, recording (either as a tally or a numeral), create a graph from their data, label the sea creatures, explore which creatures live under the sea, on the land or both, and obviously colour it in! A possible four subjects integrated into one lesson (and a super easy one to leave for a relief teacher) or in maths rotations when you need a small group of children to work independently. I'll be sure to share Miss M's finished product over on Instagram.
We used these coloured fish as part of a sensory activity with ocean coloured rice in our tuff tray. The kids absolutely loved it and it was a great way for them to practise reading each colour! We're also planning to place a paper clip on each one and use a magnet want to play a fishing game. Once played with we'll add them to our discovery table or use them for a colour matching or sorting task.
For small group work, it's always fun to tie in the group names with the term theme. These group posters would be perfect for group organisation! There are 11 different sea creatures in this set, and there's also matching desk name plates too. You'd be the most organised teacher ever if the students desk name plate matched their group! (We love to be organised!!).
Is "Under the Sea" one of your themes this year? Let me know below or leave me a comment on Instagram!
Lauren xx
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