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Ocean in a Bottle

Summer Lesson Plans

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Lesson plan developed by Ms. Erika Geelhoed, BA Ed

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Activity:  

Ocean in a Bottle

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Age Groups:

Young Infants

* Lesson plan objective and assessment can be adapted to use this activity with mobile infants, toddlers or preschoolers.

Ocean in a Bottle

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Objectives:  

• Child will develop their sense of sight by focusing on small items in the bottle
  
• Child will develop communication skills by practicing back-and-forth dialog 
  

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CDA Competency Standard:   

II.6.4b

• Candidate’s interactions encourage children’s communication skills
  

b) Interacts with children, listening and responding appropriately

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Materials: 

• Clear and clean bottle
  
• water
  
• blue food coloring
  
• oil
  
• glitter or sand
  
• small shells
  
• ocean themed foamies or plastic sea creatures
  
• glue gun with glue

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Procedure: 

Fill bottle 2/3 full of water and add 5 drops of blue food coloring. Add as much sand, glitter, shells, and foamies as you would like. Cover bottle with lid and gently shake up. Remove lid and add oil almost to the top of the bottle. Apply glue to the inside of the lid and screw onto the bottle tightly. Present the bottle to the child and show them how to turn it on its side and gently rock and forth to create ocean waves. As the child is exploring the bottle, talk with them about what they are experiencing. Practice back-and-forth exchanges with them. 

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Assessment: 

Record how many exchanges were made between you and the child.  Make any anecdotal notes and put all the information in the child’s portfolio. 

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Online Early Childhood Courses

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Stages of Social and Emotional Development in Infants $10.50

Stages of Physical Growth and Development in Infants $10.50

CDA Payment Plan Online * Meets the training requirements to apply for a National Child Development Associate Credential.

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Sand and Sea Lesson Plans

SAND AND SEA Poems, Songs and Action Rhymes

SAND AND SEA  Gallery

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Online Early Childhood Education

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Deep Blue Sea Classroom Fun!

Fishy Pokey 
Author Unknown
Sung To: 'Hokey Pokey'

Put your left fin in, take your left fin out
You do the fishy pokey and you turn yourself around that's what its all about
Put your right gill in, take your right gill out (etc.)


Catch a Fish
Sung to: "Row, Row, Row your boat"

Catch, catch, catch a fish,
Hook it on your line.
Reel it, reel it, reel it,
This one will be mine.


Fish Are Swimming
Sung to: "Frere Jacques"

Fish are swimming, fish are swimming,
In the sea, in the sea,
A-splishing and a-splashing,
A-splishing and a-splashing,
Look and see, look and see.

Suggested Books
Available from Amazon

1, 2, 3 in the Sea
by Sue Dicicco 

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See The Sea! (Googly Eyes)
by Allia Zobel Nolan

 

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