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UNDER THE SEA UNIT

 

March 28 & 29: Music Programs!

April 1 – 5: Spring break, NO SCHOOL

 

Dear Parents, 

           The Under the Sea unit is FUN!  This educational unit has many integrated activities for whole-language experiences. You’ll be amazed at the information your children just soak up like a sponge!

 

About The Unit

This unit has many objectives; 

1. To promote language development through new vocabulary, discussions and new ideas and information.

2. To identify and name many different types of sea creatures.

3. To teach children to identify the different types of whales by visual characteristics and by whether they are baleen or toothed whales.

4. To ask and to discover the answers for questions like:

         a. Are whales deaf?

         b. Can whales drown?

         c. What is a group of whales called?

         d. What is a group of fish called?

         e. Do whales and fish sleep?

         f. What is migration?

         g. What is echolocation?

         h. Are Whales fish?

         i. Does salt water make a difference in how easily things float?

 

The children will learn the answers to these and many other questions. Talk to them. You will be surprised how much they will learn!  We will discuss many other creatures that make their home under the sea and the differences among them.  Some have shells they molt, some have fins, some have no outer body structure at all!  

 

BOOKS USED IN THIS UNIT

Samantha Seagull's Sandals by Gordon Winch 

If I were a Fish DLM teaching resource 

Children's Encyclopedia of Science

Whales  by Seymour Simon 

Whales and Other Sea Mammals Children's Press 

Undersea Giants  

Whales, The Gentle Giants by Joyce Milton 

Whales, Mighty Giants of the Sea a National geographic pop-up book

The Whales Song  by Dyan Sheldon 

Wild Whales by Dr. James Darling 

Whale Song by Troy Johnston 

Humphrey, the Lost Whale Wendy Tokuda & Richard Hall       

Humphrey The Wayward Whale Ernest Callenbach 

A Pod of Killer Whales   

Whale Brother by Barbara Steiner 

Orca! The Killer Whale by S. Lewis 

Orca's Song by Anne Cameron 

Dolphins 

The Manatee 

Manatee

Mary Manatee Suzanne Tate 

Commotion in the Ocean by Andreae and Wojtowyez 

Jenny the Jellyfish -Suzanne Tate 

Our Mysterious Ocean - reader's digest 

Swimmy - Leo Lionni 

I am a little Whale - Francois Crozat 

 

Soundprints books from the Smithsonian Institution used for reference

Beluga Passage

Octopus' Den 

Wings in the Water

Coral Reef Hideaway

Video. Magic School Bus Gets Eaten

 

Your Northside Learning Center Staff

 

 

 

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 PRESCHOOL CALENDAR FOR 2023-2024 a work in progress!
(more dates may be added throughout the school year and changes may be made)

August - first two weeks -

Letters sent to registered children/parents about school start-up by August 15th

 

August 31

 Meet your teacher day. Times will be sent with the letter in August.

September 5 

First Day of school for TTH and 5-day children

September 6

First day of school MWF 

September 28/29

Parents visit music time (a "not a program" event)

 

October 12/13

Fall Festival Days -for the preschoolers 
An "on site" trip to the pumpkin patch

October 26/27

Halloween program for parents to enjoy

 

November 8 & 9

Individual School Pictures Day

November 10

Veteran's Day  NO SCHOOL

November 22/23/24

Thanksgiving Holiday NO SCHOOL

 

 

December 14/15

Christmas Music program for parents 

December 18 through January 1

Christmas/winter break NO SCHOOL 

 

January 2/3

 Back to school

January 15

 Martin Luther King Jr. Day NO SCHOOL

 

February  14/15

 Valentine Parties

February 16

WE WILL HAVE SCHOOL (originally a snow makeup day)

February 19

NO SCHOOL President's Day 

February 20

NO SCHOOL Snow/Wind Storm Make-up day TTH

 

March 28/29

Spring Music program for parents

 

April 1st through April 5th 

NO SCHOOL Spring Break

 

 

May 21/22 

Last days of Classes at school

 May 23/24 

End of year PROGRAM AND PARTY 

May 27 Memorial Day  NO SCHOOL

 DATES WILL BE ADDED OR CHANGED THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL YEAR FOR SPECIAL EVENTS ETC.