Description
Ocean science for summer: Shelly the Sea Turtle hatches from an egg buried in warm sand, crawls to the sea as a hatchling, hides in floating seaweed as a juvenile and grows into an adult. This sea turtle life cycle unit for preschool, pre-K and kindergarten, ages 3 to 6, includes ocean worksheets for sequencing, counting eggs and helping the hatchling.
Plan a beach or ocean animals week in the classroom, homeschool or daycare with a 5 day lesson plan, a wall poster that grows one stage a day and a Life Cycle Wheel craft. No prep summer activities save you prep time.
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This unit is part of the Life Cycles Mega Bundle, 12 science units for the whole year. Get the bundle and save big: CLICK HERE
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WHAT'S INCLUDED
► You will get 60+ pages, including: ⤵
▴ Preschool & Pre-K and kindergarten black and white worksheets: ⤵
→ Sea Turtle Life Cycle, cut and paste (4 stages)
→ Sea Turtle Life Cycle, cut and paste (3 stages)
→ Trace the Word
→ Trace the Words
→ Color and Label
→ What Comes Next?
→ Parts of a Sea Turtle
→ Count the Eggs
→ Help the Hatchling
→ Small to Big
→ Draw the Life Cycle
→ My Sea Turtle, draw and write
▴ Teacher Guide with a 5 day lesson plan and assessment pages
▴ Shelly the Sea Turtle, a read-aloud story in color
▴ Wall life cycle poster to build with the class
▴ Mini poster, flash cards and a chant with motions
▴ My Sea Turtle Life Cycle Book (emergent reader)
▴ Pattern coloring pages
▴ Life Cycle Wheel craft with a finished example and templates, plus a color teacher wheel to laminate
▴ Headband and certificate with a handprint turtle
► Pages in US Letter size (8.5 x 11 inches). For A4 paper, choose Fit to Page when printing.
WHY TEACHERS LOVE IT
The story keeps ocean science accurate: the mother sea turtle returns to the beach where she hatched, digs a nest with her back flippers and lays up to 100 eggs, the eggs stay in the warm sand for about 60 days, and the hatchlings dig out together and follow the light on the water to the ocean.
A 3 stage cut and paste lets younger children join the same lesson with a smaller step.
Bold lines, large pictures and short directions make every page easy to read, including for children who use visual supports.
✥ PERFECT FOR
◆ Homeschool ocean science
◆ Preschool, Pre-K and Kindergarten classrooms
◆ Daycare and childcare programs
◆ Science and learning centers
◆ Summer, beach and ocean theme weeks
◆ Small groups
◆ Independent practice
◆ Early finishers
★ SKILLS PRACTICED
◆ Sequencing the 4 stages of the sea turtle life cycle
◆ Science vocabulary: nest, hatchling, juvenile, flippers, ocean
◆ Listening and retelling with the ocean story
◆ Counting eggs and matching numerals
◆ Predicting what comes next and ordering by size
◆ Cutting, gluing, tracing and coloring for fine motor strength
◆ Oral language through the chant and the Life Cycle Wheel
✥ SAVE BIG WITH THE MEGA BUNDLE
Teach a new life cycle every season with all 12 units in one download: pumpkin, apple, turkey, penguin, robin, plant, butterfly, frog, chicken, ladybug, bee and sea turtle. CLICK HERE to see everything inside the Life Cycles Mega Bundle and save big.
TERMS
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