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Ocean Worksheets

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Whales, crabs, octopuses and sea turtles for counting, patterns, sorting, letter sounds, reading, vocabulary, graphs and word problems.

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Ocean worksheets for preschool

An ocean animals coloring page, color by number fish, I spy ocean, count and dot, trace paths, big and small, ocean patterns and which animals live in the ocean.

Ocean worksheets for kindergarten

Count and write, picture addition, ocean beginning sounds, ocean words to trace, a word search, a whale read-aloud, an ocean or land sort (cut and paste or no-cut) and a writing prompt.

Ocean worksheets for 1st grade

A sea turtle passage, ocean vocabulary, a favorite ocean animal graph, add and subtract within 20, ocean word problems, an opinion writing prompt and a word search.

Print at 100% (actual size) for the cleanest tracing lines.

About these ocean worksheets

These ocean worksheets use friendly ocean animals to practice real skills. Preschoolers count and dot, trace paths, compare big and small, find patterns, circle the animals that live in the ocean and color a fish by number. Kindergartners count and write, add with pictures, hear first sounds, sort ocean and land animals and listen to a short read-aloud about whales. 1st graders read about sea turtles, learn ocean words, graph favorite ocean animals and solve ocean word problems.

They fit an ocean unit, a summer theme week or a trip to the beach or aquarium. For more about where animals live, see Animal Habitats; to label a fish, see Parts of a Fish; and for a map of the five oceans, see Continents and Oceans.

Every page is black and white, prints on US Letter or A4, and pages with one right answer have an answer key on page 2.

Standards

  • ELOF P-MATH 2Child recognizes the number of objects in a small set.
  • ELOF P-MATH 5Child associates a quantity with written numerals up to 5 and begins to write numbers.
  • ELOF P-MATH 7Child understands simple patterns.
  • ELOF P-MATH 8Child measures objects by their various attributes using standard and non-standard measurement. Uses differences in attributes to make comparisons.
  • ELOF P-PMP 3Child demonstrates increasing control, strength, and coordination of small muscles.
  • ELOF P-SCI 3Child compares and categorizes observable phenomena.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1.APrint many upper- and lowercase letters.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.5.ASort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.1.BRecognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.ADemonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.2With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.1Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is...).
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.5Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1–20, count out that many objects.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.2Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.4.AUse sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.2Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.1Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or name the book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.MD.C.4Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.A.1Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.C.6Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten (e.g., 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14); decomposing a number leading to a ten (e.g., 13 - 4 = 13 - 3 - 1 = 10 - 1 = 9); using the relationship between addition and subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 - 8 = 4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums (e.g., adding 6 + 7 by creating the known equivalent 6 + 6 + 1 = 12 + 1 = 13).

How to use them

  1. Start with talk: which ocean animals do children know? Then pick a counting or sorting page.
  2. Read the whale read-aloud (kindergarten) or the sea turtle passage (1st grade) before the writing prompts, so children have facts to use.
  3. Use the ocean or land sort as cut and paste, or the no-cut page when scissors are not handy.
  4. After the favorite ocean animal graph, take a class vote of your own.

Teaching tips

  • Point out that whales and dolphins breathe air like we do, even though they live in water.
  • On the beginning sounds page, say each animal name slowly and stretch the first sound.
  • For the 1st grade vocabulary page, read each sentence aloud with "blank" and try each word that might fit.
  • Keep the preschool pages to one at a time, and let children name each animal as they color it.

Questions teachers and parents ask

What ocean animals are on these worksheets?

Whales, dolphins, fish, crabs, octopuses, jellyfish, seals, sharks, turtles and sea turtles, plus shells and waves.

Is a whale a fish?

No. A whale is a mammal. It breathes air through a blowhole and feeds its baby milk. The kindergarten read-aloud covers this in a few simple sentences.

Is there a no-cut version of the sort?

Yes. The ocean or land sort comes as a cut and paste page and as a no-cut page where children circle the group each animal belongs to.

Do the pages have answer keys?

Every page with one right answer has an answer key on page 2. Coloring, tracing, drawing and writing pages do not need one.