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STEM Ocean Tangram Puzzles Set

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Ocean tangram puzzles are great to explore during the summer or while exploring ocean animals. A crab, dolphin, and fish are displayed on free printable mats.

The ocean tangram puzzles are a great way to explore shapes and spatial relations. What fun your children will have flipping and rotating tangram shapes to get them to look the way the shapes in the puzzles do.

Getting the Ocean Tangram Puzzles Set Ready

This set is a PDF.   When you download it, you will need to open it with a PDF reader. Acrobat Reader is a popular reader that you can download to use. You probably have it on your computer already

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If you plan on using the mats and puzzle pieces over and over again you may want to laminate them. Below you will find some laminating supplies I recommend.

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Ways to Use the Set

There are a number of ways that you can explore this set with your children. Below you will see some ways that they can be explored.

  • Children can do a free exploration of the mats and tangrams in a math center. Your children will be working without you in a center. Having another person working in the center will allow them to keep track of each others success.
  • Children can work in a small group with you. This will allow you to demonstrate how to turn and flip the tangrams. It will also help you to see if they are understanding what they need to do.
  • If you have enough tangrams and mats for everyone, you can do this as a whole class activity.

More Ocean Themed Activities

Find, Count and Create a Bar Graph Activity Printables

Find, Count, and Create Bar Graphs with Ocean Creatures

Ocean Life LEGO Building Ideas

Let’s Code Break Ocean Riddles Worksheets

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After sharing the farm-themed code breaking printables with a friend, she asked if I had made more coded breaking worksheets. She wanted to use them with her daughter.  She told me that her daughter doesn’t like to practice reading by reading books. The little girl does like to read jokes. I decided right then and there that I would make a whole week’s worth of code break word and riddles set for her to use. You may have children that are just like her daughter so, I am sharing them with you too. Today’s code break set is filled with ocean riddles.

Getting the Code Break Riddle Worksheets

You can download the Code Breaking- Ocean Riddles Worksheets . There are two code breaking worksheets and one code breaking chart in this set. You can print any of the pages in this set onto a black and white printer. Each of the code break ocean riddle worksheets has an answer key. You can choose to print out the answer key or use it as a reference in its PDF form if you like.

Ocean Jokes Code Breaker Worksheets for Kids - There are two worksheets and code breaking chart in this set. This is a fun reading and coding activity.

 

Before Starting the Code Break Worksheets

Before you children start working on the code break worksheets, you may want to read them a book or two with an ocean theme. That will give them some familiarity with ocean words on the printable. It may also activate the knowledge your children already have about the ocean. Below you will find some of our favorite ocean-themed books.


Breaking Each Code

 

First, you will need to decide if your children can do this on their own or would benefit from working this with you. If you are using this as a reading activity, you will want work on this with them.

Ocean Jokes Code Breaker Worksheets for Kids

Next, you will need to decide if you want to hang up the chart so they can look up at it or have it beside your children. If they have it beside them they can point to the picture when they find it on the chart as well as the letter it represents.

Ocean Jokes Code Breaker Worksheets for Kids - There are two worksheets and code breaking chart in this set.

Finally, when they have broken every code. They can practice reading the jokes and their punchlines

If you like this printable, here are some more ocean themed printables you can share with your children.

Ocean Themed Counting Worksheets with LEGO

What Time is it Mr. Hermit Crab?

Teaching Feelings with Jellyfish

Hands-On Ocean Themed Skip Counting Puzzles

Addition Shark Puzzles

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Reading Dolch Words with Crabby the Crab Printables

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Reading Dolch Words with Crabby the Crab Printables - Your children home or students at school can work on the first 100 Dolch words with this word exploration activity.

The summertime is a great time to explore sight words. This printable crab names Crabby and his lists of the first 100 sight words will give your children at home or students at school the opportunity to work on reading Dolch words.

Exploring Dolch Words with Crabby

Preparing the Activity

Before you can start exploring Dolch words with Crabby, you will need to print out the Reading Dolch Words with Crabby Crab. Both the Crabby word slides and the Dolch words on slides will need to be printed out on card stock. You may want to laminate them. They will be more durable if they have been covered. They Dolch words will also slip more easily through the slot in the Crabby’s slide if they are covered.

Reading Dolch Words with Crabby the Crab Printables Supplies

Ready to Start Exploring the Dolch Words

Once you have your slides covered and cut out, your children can slip the first slide with Dolch words into place. Your children will need to slip the words up so that they can see the first word just above Crabby’s claws.

As they read each of the words, they can pull up the slide until the next word is showing. Your children will continue this process until they have read all the words on that slide.

Reading Dolch Words with Crabby the Crab Printables Word Slide- Ready to Read

If they miss any words, you can have them move those words back to just above Crabby’s claws one at a time and try them again.

Making Reading Dolch Words Fun

Some children may think that just reading Dolch words for a list is boring. After reading through each of the word lists once or twice, you can offer your children the opportunity to say them in fun ways.

You could ask your children to try to come up with a voice that a crab might use to read words. If they have trouble coming up with a voice, you could suggest that they read them like one of the voices listed below.

Fun Voices

  • A crab might talk like a pirate.
  • It might have a very grouchy voice.
  • The crab might talk in a soft whisper so predator might not find him.
  • A loud voice might be used because he loves words.

Working with More Words

Once your children have mastered the first 100 Dolch words, you can easily create more word slides on tagboard that are the same size and shape as the slides in the set.  You could even place vocabulary words from ocean themed books on words slides for your children to explore.

Crab Themed Books

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A House for Hermit Crab

Crab Moon 

Clumsy Crab

If you like this ocean themed printable, here are some more you will love:

Reading and Building Words Under the Sea

Find, Count and Graph Ocean Objects

Ocean Themed Counting Worksheets with LEGO

What Time is it Mr. Hermit Crab?

Teaching Feelings with Jellyfish

Reading Dolch Words with Crabby the Crab Printables - Your children home or students at school can work on the first 100 Dolch words with this word exploration activity.

 

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Preschool Reading – Reading and Building Words Under the Sea Printable

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Preschool Reading Under the Sea Printable with Letters - Your students at school or children at home can build words and word families on an under the sea work mat.

Whether you want your children at home to explore word families, short vowel sounds or build words this fun reading and building words set will be fun to explore. While this was designed as a preschool reading activity, you can totally use it with older children.

Preschool Reading Activity- Build and Reading WordsReading Under the Sea - This activity was designed as a preschool reading activity. Students at school or children at home can explore and read word families and vowel sounds as they build words on this ocean floor printable.

Before you can start this preschool reading activity, you will need to download a copy of Reading and Building Words Under the Sea Printables. Since your children will want to use this activity over and over again, you may want to print this activity out of card stock.

Consonant Letter Fish Printable

 

Exploring This Preschool Reading Activity

There are a variety of ways to explore this preschool reading activity. While I am going to share a few of the ways I have come up with, you will probably be able to come up with much more to do with these printables.

One Vowel at a Time

Your children can explore one vowel at a time. They can try to make as many words as they can with just one of the vowels on the mat. You may want them to read as well as spell each of the words. Then they can move on to another vowel.

Make a Word for Each Vowel

This preschool reading activity invites children to come up with one word for each of the vowels using the fish letters available. When each vowel has a letter in front of and behind each vowel, they can read the words.

Word Family

Children are asked to place a letter behind one of the vowels. They are then to create as many words as they can that are in that word family by placing fish letters in front of the vowel.

Adding Just Two Letters

Just two letters will be used in this activity. Your children are asked to place one consonant letter in front of the letter a and one after it to make a word. Then they will slide the two letters down to the letter e to see if they make a word. They will continue to slide the letters down the rest of the vowels to see if they make words.

It will be fun to see how many words those two letters make. Once they have tried making words with those two letters, they can select two more letters to try to build words with.

If you like this ocean themed preschool activity, here are some more ocean themed printables you will want to explore:

Ocean Playdough Counting Mats

Hands On Shape Sorting Fish

No-Prep Ocean Themed Addition Word Printables

Find, Count, and Create a Bar Graph Ocean Activity

Ocean Themed Counting Worksheets with LEGO

What Time is it Mr. Hermit Crab?

Teaching Feelings with Jellyfish

 

Preschool Reading Under the Sea Printable with Letters

 

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Find, Count and Create a Bar Graph with Ocean Objects Printables

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Find, Count and Create a Bar Graph Activity Printables

This week I will be sharing ocean themed math printables with you. Today’s activity invites your children at home or students at school to find and count ocean objects. Then they are asked to create a bar graph using the data they have collected. Later in the week, I have a printable ocean counting book to share with you. We will end the week with ocean themed number bingo boards. It should be a fun week.

At the end of each post, I will be sharing with you wonderful ocean themed learning printables from 3 Dinosaurs and Royal Baloo. I know you are going to want to check them out.

Find, Count and Create a Bar Graph Activity

Getting Ready for the Find, Count and Create a Bar Graph Activity

Find and Count Ocean Themed Printable

The first thing you will need to do is download the  Find and Count Ocean Activity. You will find four different find and count sheets with matching graphing pages.  Then your children or students can do some or all of the activity sheets. If you are not yet working on graphing and just want to work on counting, you can just print out the find and count sheets.

Create a Bar Graph Printable

Using the Find and Count Sheets

The directions invite children to find out how many of each object is displayed on the page. Then children are asked to record how many they have found at the bottom of the page.

If you are worried your children may lose count, you can have them cross out, color, or place a number of each object as they count it.

Using the Create a Bar Graph Pages

While these pages were designed to record the date children have gathered on the find and count sheets. You could have your students come up with their own data and graph it.

How to generate different data?

Your children could roll a die for each ocean object. Then they could record the number on die by filling in bars on the bar graph.

 

Other Ocean Themed Printables

Ocean Themed Counting Worksheets with LEGO

What Time is it Mr. Hermit Crab?

Teaching Feelings with Jellyfish

Hands-On Ocean Themed Skip Counting Puzzles

Addition Shark Puzzles

 

Find, Count and Create a Bar Graph Activity Printables - Your children at home or students at school can work on counting and graphing with this set of four counting and four graphing sheets.

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Ocean Themed Counting Worksheets to Use with LEGO

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Ocean Themed Counting Worksheets to Use with LEGO

Last week I started sharing some ocean themed printables with you.  Today I have some ocean themed counting worksheets to share with you. They were designed to be used with LEGO, but you could easily use a variety of counting materials with them. You will find a list of counting materials listed later in this post.

Ocean Themed Counting Worksheets

Getting the Ocean Themed Counting Worksheets Ready

The first thing you will need to do is print out the Ocean Themed Counting Worksheets. You don’t have to print out the whole set. If you like you can print out just a few number mats at a time.

The mats are really colorful! You will want to print out the ocean themed counting worksheets on a color printer.

Ocean Themed Counting Worksheets to Use with LEGO- This set includes worksheets for numbers one thru ten for kids to explore. Counting with one to one correspondence and tally marks.

Gathering LEGO

You will need to a variety of different types of bricks for these worksheets. The long bricks work best for the Tally Marks section.  You can use any type of bricks you like in the Number of Bricks section.

Other Counting Materials

If you would rather not use LEGO for this activity you could use any of the following:

Tally Mark Materials

  • Small Popsicle Sticks
  • Sections of Pipe Cleaners
  • Crayons
  • Toothpicks

Number of Bricks Materials

  • Buttons
  • Pom Poms
  • Bottle Caps
  • Beads

 

Exploring the Counting Worksheets

Ocean Themed Counting Worksheets to Use with LEGO- This set includes worksheets for numbers one thru ten for kids to explore. Counting with one to one correspondence and tally marks. This is an example of the counting worksheets.

You will want to have your children read the sentence at the top of each worksheet. Then you will want them to count the ocean pictures displayed. The mat for the number nine doesn’t say how many strands of seaweed are displayed. I thought it would be fun to have one of the counting worksheets ask children just to count the pictures.

Ocean Themed Counting Worksheets to Use with LEGO- This set includes worksheets for numbers one thru ten for kids to explore. Counting with one to one correspondence and tally marks. This is in the mystery number worksheet.

After figuring out the number they are exploring on that counting worksheet, they will need to put the right number of narrow LEGO in the Tally Mark section. Then they can put the right number of bricks in the Number of Bricks section.

Ocean Themed Counting Worksheets to Use with LEGO- This set includes worksheets for numbers one thru ten for kids to explore. Counting with one to one correspondence and tally marks. There is a fun way to check your answers.

Children can check their work by placing the LEGO from one section at a time onto the ocean pictures.

Here are some more LEGO-themed activities I know you will love:

LEGO Fraction Games

Ocean Life Building Directions and mat

Graphing Ocean Animals with LEGO

LEGO Minifigure Knock Down Game

LEGO Design Drawing Machine

Simple STEM Design Project- Can  You Build a LEGO Boat?

Fidget Spinner Math Challenge

 

The ocean is a fun themed to explore in the summer. Here are some more ocean themed activities:

Five Ways to Use Sensory Bottles to Learn

What Time is it Mr. Hermit Crab?

Teaching Feelings with Jellyfish Printables

Fun at the Beach Easy Reader Book

Fun Beach Money Games Using (U.S Money)

Ocean Themed Counting Worksheets to Use with LEGO- This set includes worksheets for numbers one thru ten for kids to explore. Counting with one to one correspondence and tally marks. There is even a fun way to double check your answers.

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5 Ways to Use Sensory Bottles to Learn

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Five Ways to Explore Sensory Bottles

Children love to explore sensory bottles.  They can spin, shake and stare at the objects that they contain.  I have come with 5 Ways kids can use sensory bottles to explore a variety of learning concepts and skills.

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Supplies for the Sensory Bottles

 I started with La Looks Gel blue hair gel (I found it at Walmart for a really cheap price.), a VOSS Artesian water bottle,  green and blue glass gems,  and Safari Ltd Coral Reef TOOB Set. Then I dug a chopstick out of my junk drawer.

Constructing the Sensory Bottles

You will need to fill the bottle about 1/3 of the way up with gel . Then add a few gems and the coral figure. You can push them into place with the chopstick. You may want some gems on the side of the bottom and some in the center.

Next, you add more gel so that the bottle is filled up 2/3 of the way. You will add more of the coral reef objects and some more gems. You will push them into place with a chopstick just as you did the first layer of objects.

Finally, you will finish filling up the bottle. You will also place the final coral reef objects and gems into the bottle.

Ways to Explore Sensory Bottles

I Spy

Five Ways to Explore Sensory Bottles- I Spy

Children will be invited share what objects they see in the sensory bottle. If you want to take pictures of each of the objects and place them on a chart or make a written list, you certainly can. Children could then look for all the objects on your list or chart.

Tell Me a Story

Five Ways to Explore Sensory Bottles- Tell Me Story

You can invite your children to tell you a story about the objects in the bottle. They could tell the story from the perspective of the diver or one of the animals in the jar if they like. The fun thing about this activity is that the story will be different each time it is shared by your children.

Up Close

Five Ways to Explore Sensory Bottles - Number Concepts

 

It can be hard to see the objects in the center of the bottle unless the bottle is held up close. This activity with sensory bottles invites children to see what can’t be seen on the surface. You could give your children magnifying glasses to use for this activity.

Number Count

Five Ways to Explore Sensory Bottles - Counting Objects

Children  can be invited to count the number of gems and coral reef objects they see. You could invite them to count only the objects at the top, center or bottom of the bottle. It would make it easier for young children to focus on the objects.

Math Concepts

Five Ways to Explore Sensory Bottles - Number Concepts and More

Children can be invited to add the number of creatures to the number of other coral reef objects. They could also subtract the number of blue gems from the number of green gems. (I added more green gems they blue.) You could also have them skip count them!

More Sensory Bottle Activities

Exploring Shapes 

Making Waves

LEGO Man Sink and Float


Five Ways to Explore Sensory Bottles - Stop by and see how to put this ocean themed sensory bottle together and fun ways to explore learning concepts with it.

 

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Teaching Feelings with Jellyfish Activity Printables

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Teaching Feelings with Jellyfish

I am joining 3 Dinosaurs and Royal Baloo in sharing collections of ocean printables.  You are going to love the wonderful printables that we all are going to share with you. Today I have a fun jellyfish themed activity that you can use when you are teaching feelings.

Teaching Feelings with Jellyfish

Getting Ready

The first thing you are going to need to do is print out the Teaching Feelings with Jellyfish Activity. While you could print out this teaching feelings prinable set in black and white, the jellyfish sure do look cute in color. You will probably want to print them out on cardstock. It will make the cards easier for your children to work with.

Once you have them printed out, you will need to cut out the feeling cards and the jellyfish cards.

Teaching Feeling Activities

Exploring the Feelings

The first activity you will want to do with your kids is to have them read you each of the feeling words or read them to them. Knowing what the words on the cards are is important.

Next, you will need to have your children look over the jellyfish cards. You will need to have your children tell you what each jellyfish is feeling.

Matching the Face to the Feeling

Teaching Feelings with Jellyfish - Card Match

Your children will need to pick a feeling word or you can pick one for them. They can place in on one of the boxes on the work mat. Then they will need to find a jellyfish whose face is displaying that feeling. Once you have agreed that the word and face match, they that work on matching feeling words to jellyfish faces.

Pick One Feeling

Teaching Feelings with Jellyfish- Feeling Choices

Some of the jellyfish faces look like they could be expressing more than one feeling. You can have your children pick a jellyfish. Then you can pick a couple of feeling words you think could fit that face. Finally, you can have your children explain which one they think is the best fit.

You could even have them make that face for you and give a real life example of a time they had that feeling.

 

If you like this focus on teaching feelings activity, here are some more wonderful printables I have created.

This set of teaching feelings with jellyfish printables includes feeling cards, jellyfish cards with various facial expressions and a work mat.

 

 

 

 

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5 Days of Ocean Printables and Worksheets for Kids

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Ocean Themed Printables for Kids

I am joining 3 Dinosaurs and Royal Baloo in sharing collections of ocean printables.  You are going to love the wonderful printables that we all are going to share with you.

Please stop by each day this week to see what new ocean printables have been shared. Your children will enjoy getting to explore them. This series will have activity pages for children in preschool all the way through third grade. You are sure to find it hard to decide which one to do first.

A list of each day’s activity pages will be posted on my Facebook page. If you don’t currently follow JDaniel4’s Mom, you will want to start following so you will see the new printables when they are added to my feed. I will be sharing the worksheets and activity pages from Royal Baloo and 3 Dinosaurs too.

Ocean Printables

Day One

Teaching Feelings with Jellyfish

Fun at the Beach Easy Reader Book

Day Two

What Time is it Mr. Hermit Crab? Worksheets

Fun No Prep Beach Themed Dice with Math Facts

Day Three

Ocean Themed Counting Printables to Use with LEGO

Beach Themed Gross Motor Dice

Fun Reading Practice with Beach Silly Sentences

Day Four

Beach Math Logic Puzzles

Beach Themed Addition and Subtraction Mats

Ocean Themed Roll and Cover Mats

 

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STEM Projects with Blocks- Hermit Crab House

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This week I have been I have been sharing with you activities that go along with the book A House for a Hermit Crab. The first activity I share with you was a calendar sequencing printable set. Then I shared with you a fun fine motor inspired paper plate crab. Today I have a fun STEM projects mat that can be used with a die and blocks to build a hermit crab house.

Getting Ready for the STEM Projects

STEM Projects with Blocks- Hermit Crab House Supplies

The first thing you are going to need to do is print out the STEM Build a House for a Hermit Crab House work mat. While you could print this out in black and white, it really looks nice in color.

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Then you will need to gather the rest of the supplies for the STEM projects. First, you will need a die with numbers or dots on it. You can really use either. Then you will need a set ofbuilding blocks. (If you don’t have blocks available, you could use magna-tiles  or tangrams.)

Conducting the STEM Projects

Free Exploration

You can give your children the opportunity to free explore the STEM project by just putting out the blocks and the work mat. If you work with young children you may just decide to do this project.

STEM Projects with Blocks- Hermit Crab House : Free Exploration

Roll and Build Crab House

This second project will have your children rolling a die and using that number of blocks to build a house for the hermit crab.  The goal of this STEM project is to use the correct number of blocks. If a small section of the crab is left showing it is totally okay. The house can be build up as well as across. This will give the house three dimensions.

STEM Projects with Blocks- Hermit Crab House Four Blocks and Die

Roll, Build and Cover the Crab

Children will need to decide how much of the crab needs to be covered with the blocks. Then they will roll the die. Next. they will need to build a house with blocks using the number on the die. Finally, children will need to create a house with the right number of blocks that cover the right amount of the crab.

STEM Projects with Blocks- Hermit Crab House Five Blocks

If you like these STEM projects, here are some more STEM activities you will love doing with your kids:

Building a Basketball Hoop

Cardboard Tube Marble Run

Build a Dino STEM Activity

Owl Eyesight STEM Exploration

Build a Snack Machine

DYI Rubberband Racer

Counting Sheep Pulley Activity

Spider Web Hanger Challenge

You will also find a number of STEM projects on my Early Learning- Science board. Please take a moment to explore that board.

STEM Projects with Blocks: Building a Crab House -There are three STEM project your children can do with this printable building mat. They can engineer a crab house that goes across the crab or builds up from the crab.

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