Manipulate the flannel board pieces. Play with the puppets. Manipulate the puzzles. Use language with 1-3. 5. Students interact with flannel board and place cut-outs correctly.
Students look at picture books, recognizing and correctly naming animals.
Students make up estuary stories with their classmates, using puppets. Students express concern about the estuary habitat. In early childhood education the goal is for the student to have an experience rather than to create a product. Students can create, through art, a booklet of estuary creatures and label them. The class can put on a play about the estuary.