My Blue Boat

-Make Blue Boats

-Color matching 

-Find the Blue Boat on every page

-Create own story with their blue boat

-Count boats, seagulls, stars, animals in the book

-Vocab: Beacon, Swell, Flipper, spout, pod, mammal, Constellation, Orbit

-Space explorations: stars/constellations, moon phases, planets 

-Wonder about the girl: her name, age, what she did before the bath, if she was scared in the storm, etc

-Learn about Dolphins and whales, animal matching cards

-Discuss art in the book: watercolors, color, favorite illustration

-Oral retelling of story

-Constellation pin-poking/lacing/matching

-Go to the ocean, ride a boat, go dolphin or whale watching, find sea shells, float in the swells, find shells, feed seagulls 

Montessori activities for My Blue Boat