FIAR - Night of the Moonjellies

Our first row of the school year was Night of the Moonjellies by Mark Shasha. It was a great start to our Five in a Row year. I struggled with the decision to keep Five in A Row this year but I am glad I did. I loved working through it with my daughter but I often wonder if my son, Kaleb, enjoys it. He seemed to like the book and learning all about jellyfish.

He learned about the life cycle of a jellyfish. We read many books about jellyfish and learned a lot. He is coloring a life cycle sheet.

We talked about warm and cool colors. I gave him a small butterfly to color only in cool colors and then another to color in warm colors. We also went through the book, looking for warm and cool colors.

He made some tissue paper jellyfish. I helped him trace the templates and cut out the tissue paper. He just doesn't have the patience for tissue paper! But he did glue all of the items down and added his tentacles. This project came from Deceptively Educational (link below).

This turned out cute and was worth the effort. He choose all of the tissue paper and he decided he wanted his jellyfish colorful.

Kaleb is working on jellyfish facts. Instead of a lap book, we made a notebook from a 3 prong folder and all of his mini books from the story.

He drew his menus for our diner - Mar Gray's.

We talked about our five senses and the beach. He is adding what he can see, smell, feel, taste etc... at the beach in his mini book.

Finally, I wanted my kids to try something new - New England Clam Chowder and Lobster Rolls (technically crab meat). We had a dinner of chowder and the rolls along with some oyster crackers for fun. This was the first time for both items and it went well. They tried it all and I have had some requests for the chowder but, it will have to wait until the hurricane is over - no soup or canned goods to be found:( Oh, well, it still turned out to be a good row. We spent two weeks on our book and learning all we could about jellyfish. Our next row - How to Make and Apple Pie and See the World!  See you soon.


Links

Learn Create Love - has a simple jellyfish craft to print and paint.

Deceptively Educational - has a great project for an accordion book about jellyfish, complete with free templates and a great jellyfish art project with templates.

I heart Crafty Things - has another jellyfish art project using newspapers.