F is for Fish

Last week we studied letter F for preschool, but I'm a little bit slow getting it posted. We did a fish theme. I couldn't find any way that I like to turn the actual F into a fish, so I improvised, and I thought it turned out really cute.

We played a couple of different math games with goldfish crackers. In the first game the kids had to put the corresponding number of goldfish into the goldfish bowls. And in the second game we sorted goldfish crackers by color. We also played Go Fish, the card game, a couple of times.

The kids' favorite activity, by far, this week was our fishing game. I made a bunch of fish out of different colors of craft foam and stuck a paper clip on the end of each. On one side of each fish I wrote a three letter word that Ivan could sound out, and on the other side I wrote a word with a vowel combination (such as ea, ai, oa, ou) for Lincoln to read. When Adelia fished, she had to tell me the color of the fish she'd pulled out. The boys had to read their word. They all had a BLAST.  The fishing pole we used was made out of Trios by Lincoln and had yarn attached to it with a magnet tied at the end of the yarn. We put the fish in the bathtub to add a fun water element to the game, but you could easily play it off the floor.

And for a snack we had blue Jell-O with Swedish Fish floating in it. Not my personal nominee for favorite snack, but the kids liked it.

Here are the books we read this week:

Also, at the beginning of the week, I thought it would be fun if we adopted some real fish to observe for our fish week. I took the kids to WalMart and they each got a $0.28 goldfish. Lincoln named his Pinta, Ivan's was 32, Adelia's was Gub-gub, and we got a fourth one just in case, named Squirt. The kids were really excited about watching their fish, but unfortunately, all four of them died within the week.