All About the Ocean is the ultimate resource for teaching children about the ocean and for practicing important language and math skills that help children make cross-curricular connections. This wonderfully illustrated thematic unit has an easy-to-use format that makes it a must-have! The five ocean themes explored are: The Ocean, Near the Shore, In the Deep Ocean, How We Move on the Ocean, Taking Care of the Ocean, The five sections in this book are overflowing with fun stories and activities such as: storybooks: "Maggie's Trip to the Ocean"; "1,2,3, What Do You See?"; "I Live In the Ocean"; "Sailing, Sailing"; "Clean It Up!", full-color storyboard pieces that make it easy and fun to review concepts while you re-tell the story, art projects:Crayon Resist Ocean; I Caught a Fish; Ocean Puppets; Make a Sailboat; Clean-Up Crew, cooking: Salty or Not?; Seven Little Fish in the Blue Ocean; Tuna Triangles; Sailboat Sandwiches; Sand Art Cookie Jars, story comprehension, language, and math activity pages that are engaging and offer essential skills practice, learning centers: Sorting Seashells; In the Ocean Match; Ocean Puzzles; How Many Fish Can You Catch?; Clean It Up!, outdoor: Follow the Sea Creature; Catch the Jellyfish; Swim, Fish, Swim; Stormy Weather, music/dramatic play: "The Waves at Sea"; "In the Ocean"; "One Hungry Jellyfish"; Let's Go Sailing; "This Is the Way We Clean the Beach"; and more, alphabet cards: charmingly illustrated, full-color, theme-based, upper- and lowercase alphabet cards, Top The colorful All About- thematic series provides the busy teacher with full-color stories and ready-to-use activities that teach skills and concepts across the whole early childhood curriculum. Each thematic unit contains five sections that support reading readiness and beginning math skills such as: vocabulary and concept development, listening and comprehension, rhyming, letter and sound recognition, patterning, numeral recognition, beginning computation, geometric shapes, Each of the five sections focuses on a different aspect of the central theme. Each section contains: a full-color, wonderfully illustrated story that introduces the subject of each unit - perfect for circle time, a reproducible minibook of the same story, full-color storyboard pieces that include a teacher script, a story comprehension page, an art project that includes a photo and teacher directions, a cooking project that includes teacher directions and a parent letter with recipe, reproducible language and math activity pages that practice early childhood acquisition skills, a learning centerthat comes with instructions and materials, a music/dramatic play activity that includes teacher directions, an outdoor activity that includes teacher directions, Plus colorful alphabet cards, teacher scripts for stories and storyboard pieces, directions on creating a bulletin board, parent letters, and much more!