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The Ocean

Yesterday, some of the Pine friends left the classroom in search of materials to build an ocean for our newly constructed submarine. 

"We need a lot of blue paper!"
"Yeah we need to find big paper to make blue and we also need to make fish and other sea creatures!"
"Let's go look!"

V, B, and C went on a hunt to find different materials to use. They returned with a huge blue piece of paper and were eager to get started. 

E joined the group and took charge in what needed to be drawn on the paper. 
"Well, there are a lot of sea creatures in the ocean so we need fish."

E began drawing a lot of different fish and then picked up the color orange. 
"The orange is all the trash in the ocean."



This comment made the teachers stop in their tracks. E didn't say how she knew the ocean was filled with trash, but it was a sad reality. 

What could the Pine class to do to help clean the ocean? 

Although the conversation about the trash in the ocean didn't come up again today, the kids were interested in finding all of the animals that belong in the ocean. 


A group began separating the animals out into groups. 
"Horses don't live in the ocean so they stay in the basket."
"A shark and a dolphin live in the ocean too!"

They continued to talk about which animals belong and which ones simply do not. For the ones that don't live in the ocean they decided they needed to make land and started building up a pile of seashells. 


Can't wait to see our room transform into the ocean! 

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