Quarantine Day 14: Blue Planet Day

Today was Theme Thursday. And our Thursday them was Blue Planet!

Today we dove into the ocean and utilized the wonderful virtual aquarium tours and live cams at a few aquariums. First we did an ocean themed yoga with Nana! After we went to the National Aquarium and learned about Dolphins, Moray Eels, Jelly Fish and many other sea animals with their awesome virtual tour!!! The girls loved being able to navigate through the aquarium on their own. They kept a field notebook like a scientist would and documented animals by drawing them and making notes about them that the aquarium had. We also went to the Georgia Aquarium where we got to see live cams of many different exhibits in this aquarium from sea otters to sea lions and jelly fish to coral reef inhabitants! The girls really loved looking at the many different sea animals and documenting what they saw! Here is my lesson plan with all we did today!

First little seeds growing!!!

Juliet learning about Jelly Fish.

As the weather turned out to be wonderful today, we spent the afternoon outside. At first the girls created an underwater submarine that could examine the wonderful sea life but then the activities lead to more gross motor sills, soccer and other fun spring activities.

Afternoon games.

Lego Challenge: Build a submarine!

55 degrees!

While we ate dinner tonight, we watched the documentary 'Disney Oceans' on Netflix and they took notes in their field notebook to add to what they learned today from the aquariums.

Evening documentary: Disney Oceans

Pip enjoying the documentary with his pal Kermit.

The wonderful day ended with a concert from Dave Matthews from his house!! So much nostalgia!!!!

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