Angel's Place
Ocean Reading Lesson
DIGGING FOR SIGHT WORDS AND ABC LETTERS
If you already read the Ocean Sensory portion of this site, you will know about the beach sand sensory box that was in my classroom during our Oceans And Beaches week. I knew that my kids were fully engaged whenever they played in the sensory box, so I decided to add it to a lesson.
It was very simple. First I bought a package of sea shells. I looked for the kind that have a sort of flat surface... I think they're called Lion Paws. They look like this.
On the smooth inside part of the shell, I wrote either sight words that some of
the kids were working on learing, and letters of the alphabet on the others for the kids who were still working on that. I had two boxes of sand, so I buried the sight word shells and the alphabet shells in the other. I divided the kids into two groups and told them they got to dig for sea shells! If they found one, they had to read the word or letter before they could put it into their pile.
The kids loved it, and they didn't even want to stop for snack time!
FISHING FOR SIGHT WORDS
I've used this one for years with kids, and it is kind of a classic, but I'm putting it here anyways. I cut out fish shapes from lots of index cards. If you want to get creative, you can even color them and give them fishy faces! I wrote a sight word on each fish, and clipped a paperclip wear the fish's mouth would be. I rigged up fishing poles by taping pieces of string to the ends of unsharpened pencils, and tying small horseshoe magnets (bought at the dollar store) on the ends of the strings. Placing the fish into a bowl with the word sides down, I had the kids try to catch the fish by getting the magnetic "hook" to snag the fish's paperclips. Once they caught a fish, they had to read the word on it in order to keep it.
You could do this game for letter recognition, number recognition, or math facts, as well.
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