Glimmercat Education: fish

Today is all about Fish! And we started right in with the little fishy craft from our Letter of the Week packet. Little Miss went back to her standard pink for his eyeballs...

But then she switched it up and went for purple. Way to venture out, Little Miss!

This fish is designed to attach together at the tail. If you stand on a chair, and drop it, if flutters, almost fish-like to the ground. We dropped him a couple of times and then did our Dot to Dot.

This Dot to Dot is a nice, easy one and Little Miss made it all the way to 17 before I reached in to help her with the final numbers. She liked her little fish and wanted to color him in, so we took some time to do that, too.

And for a fun way to incorporate snacks, don't forget "goldfish" crackers! And then, we finished up the day with this silly story, "Don't Eat the Babysitter!" This one from our bookshelf that my kids enjoy because of the tension in the story as a little bitty ocean fish baby-sits a shark, and we're never quite sure she will escape from being accidentally eaten by him until the end.

But the book I'd really recommend for your fish day is, "The Pout Pout Fish", which will put a smile on anyone's face and make your kiddos giggle by the end of it, when the pout pout fish learns that rather than being destined to be "dreary-weary", because of his pouty mouth, his pouty lips are perfect for smooching. It's a cute story with a fun twist.

I know what you're going to say: "Where's 'Rainbow Fish'?" And here is where I admit to the fault of literary snobbery. What can I say? I worked as a Children's Librarian for several years, and it ruined me for poor literature. Yes, even in kid's books. There are a lot of glitzy, beautiful illustrations out there paired with poor quality kid's lit, and "Rainbow Fish" is one of them. Okay, Lit Rant over.

For more letter of the week ideas and suggestions for letter F, check out our previous posts:

F is for Fox: http://glimmercat.blogspot.com/2015/11/f-is-for-fox.html
F is for Frog: http://glimmercat.blogspot.com/2015/11/letter-of-week-for-f-day-2-f-is-for-frog.html
Introducing Letter F: http://glimmercat.blogspot.com/2015/11/introducing-letter-f.html

All of the printables and crafts seen on these posts are from our Letter of the Week Packet for F, that is available for purchase and download at our Teacher Store. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Letter-of-the-Week-F-1992134

Frankly, we had fun with the letter F. It's astonishing when you sit down and think about it, how many delightful nouns begin with F. It was almost a trick to narrow down which ones we'd choose to do.

For instance, "F is for Fox".

One of the activities included in each of our Letter of the Week packets, is this nifty "Match the Big Letter to the Little Letter" Coloring activity. It's good practice for those capital and lowercase letters. My daughter got to use paint for this one.

Then she used our Fox craft page (available in color or black and white for children to color on their own) to make this little guy.

On another day, we introduce "F is for Flower", as seen in one of the Lesson Plans included in our packet:

After completing her Flower Puzzle, she made her little pom pom flowers using the craft sheet:

For the Homeschooling Mom, here's another idea you could include in your F is for Flower day:

We began with the green letter F that makes up the leaves and stems of the flowers below.

Then we cut and folded some toilet paper tubes and had the fun of painting them, too.

We were going for Black-Eyed-Susans and opted for a black puffy center, but you could certainly use a different colored pom-pom for the center if you wished.

Another fun craft is included in our F is for Frog Day.

We decided to have it be a black and white printable that could be printed out and colored.

Yep, F is for Fun, first and foremost!

I have a pre-colored and black and white option so that the kids can color it if preferred.

Our Reading Literacy lesson is all about the book "Fox in Socks", and so foxes were rather important to this week's letter. If you can, watch the portion of "Milo and Otis" where Otis hangs out with the fox. My kids are always giggling at that point in the movie, and I think it showcases foxes really well.