Week of Fish

Last week was FISH WEEK at the Smithson house.  I have decided to divide the summer up into subjects. We started the summer with fish because the kids would be taking swim lessons and spending a lot of time in the water.  I thought that we could learn about other water creatures.  We started with the trip to the fish hatchery and fishing as I already mentioned.  Here is a picture of Melanie trying to get a run away fish (He jumped right out of the bucket... silly guy!)  

 Swim lessons started on Tuesday.  The kids got a good start on swimming this summer.  I'm really excited about how well they have done already.  Last year, their lessons didn't start until the summer was almost over.

 We read a lot of books about sea creatures.  Oliver wanted to get books on Clown Fish.  Noelle wanted to read about Sea Horses.  We also got books with whales and jelly fish.  We have learned a lot of fun facts this week.  We have also done some projects.  On one afternoon, we painted with forks.

 Another day, we played with bubbles... because, why not?

 Thanks to some coupons we had, we took a field trip to the Sea Life - Arizona.  It was fun to see some of the animals up close after learning so many things about them.

 They even got to touch some!

 Sea Turtles and Sharks!

 Sea horses are really cool.  Fun fact, they don't use their tail to swim... they just it to hold onto things!

 Later, we used our fork paint pictures to cut out sea animals and make our own aquariums.

 Noelle's Aquarium.

 Melanie's Aquarium.  (Oliver made one too, but it's not pictured)

 Melanie even wrote a book about Clown Fish (a non-fiction book).  She did a great job with the facts and the illustrations.  I love it!

It has been a fun week of fish!