• Learning Words: submarine, ocean, map, treasure, brave, explorer, flashlight
• Learning Colors: blue, green, yellow, red, pink, purple
• Learning Shapes: circle, square, triangle
• Learning to Count: 1 to 10
• Practicing movement, coordination, balance
• Doing Things in Order (“Sequencing”): the steps necessary for going on a trip
• Learning Social Skills: “Thank you”, “You’re welcome”
• Practicing with pencils, crayons, scissors

• Help children set up cushions or cardboard boxes in rows like seats on a submarine. Or pretend.
• Help children use crayons to color the blue, green, yellow, red, pink, purple, and brown circles on the Colors page.
• Help children draw a “map” of the ocean floor with a sunken treasure ship.
• Show children the Submarine Game picture. Help them name the submarine and other underwater things shown in the picture (ocean, treasure chest, fish, whale, octopus).

• Submarine Game picture.
• Colors page.
• Numbers chart.
• Shapes: Circle, Square, Triangle.

• Cushions, mats or cardboard boxes for the pretend seats of the submarine.
• Flashlight.
• Paper, crayons, clay or “Play Doh”

Tell the Story:
We are brave explorers, people who look for new places and things. We are not scared, we are brave! We have a map. The map shows a ship that sank to the bottom of the ocean. Inside the ship is a treasure chest filled with coins and jewels. We’ll go to find the treasure in a submarine, a special ship that can go under the water. (Show children the Submarine picture.)

Play the Game:

1. The brave explorers enter the pretend submarine.
2. Use Numbers chart to count aloud to ten, then start the submarine’s engine: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!
3. Feel the submarine rock as it travels down to the ocean floor. Name the animals that swim by the submarine (Submarine picture).
4. The submarine stops on the ocean floor. Put on your wet suit, breathing tank and underwater glasses. Take your map and underwater flashlight.
5. Swim to find the treasure ship. Look at your map of the ocean floor. Where is the treasure ship? Look behind the rocks. (Use your furniture or just pretend.)
6. You find the ship! Fish are sleeping and snoring inside it. Count the fish: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. What colors are the fish? (Use Colors page.) Point to and name the colors: blue, green, yellow, red, pink, purple.
7. But where is the treasure chest in the ship? The brave explorers find the treasure! Open it! You find coins and jewels! Show me a happy face.
8. Count the coins aloud with your child (Numbers chart). What colors are the jewels? What shapes are the jewels? (Use Shapes chart: circle, square, triangle.)
9. Swim back to the submarine with the treasure. Let’s count to ten and start the engines.
10. When we get back, the President gives us medals because we are very brave explorers. One medal is round like a circle. One is square. One is a triangle. Point to and name the shapes (Use Shapes chart). We say, “Thank you”. The President says, “You’re welcome”.

• Ask children to draw the medals and jewels, and name their shapes (Use Shapes chart).
• Ask children to draw animals we saw in the ocean, or make them from clay or Play Doh.
• Take children to the library. Help them find books about fish and other ocean animals.
• Now, play the other Travel Games or make up your own!