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Preschool Fun in the Sun Lesson Planning Ideas
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Ice Cream Stand
Beach Fun
Transform your dramatic play space into a beach. Place a large sandy colored sheet (fabric "beach themed" shower curtains work great for this), and a blue water sheet on the ground. Add beach chairs, sunglasses, sun hats, empty (clean) sunscreen bottles, beach bags, towels, lunch coolers, beach balls, and shovels and pails to your space this week.
Sand letters
Place moistened sand in a sensory bin along with cookie cutter letters. Encourage the children to press the letters into the sand. Extend the learning: Can they find the letters in their name? Or the first letter in the word "beach", "sand", or "crab"?
And Then Comes Summer by Tom Brenner
Day at the Beach by Tom Booth
Beach Day by Karen Roosa and Maggie Smith
Fun in the Sun by David Catrow
Is It Warm Enough for Ice Cream? by DK
Day at the Beach by Tom Booth
Beach Day by Karen Roosa and Maggie Smith
Fun in the Sun by David Catrow
Is It Warm Enough for Ice Cream? by DK
Sandpaper castles
Cut sandpaper into a variety of 2D shapes.
Encourage your students to build their own castles using this textured paper.
Encourage your students to build their own castles using this textured paper.
Ice cube fine motor fun
Place white or blue craft cubes blocks inside a small lunch cooler. Provide your student with plastic cups and a pair of tongs. Have them use the tongs to remove the "ice cube" blocks from the cooler and place them in the cups.
Splash in the ocean
Place a large blue sheet or blanket on the floor. Have your students take off their socks, and shoes, and take turns "splashing" their feet in the "water" as they name shapes, letters, numbers, or any skills you are working on this week.
Collaborative patterning
Cut out a large yellow circle "Sun" (a yellow paper plate works well for this). Collect: orange, yellow, and red clothespins (you can pain them) sun rays, and place them in a basket in the center of your group area, with the sun. Start a pattern using the clothespin "sun rays". Invite each child to get up and take turns completing the pattern by clipping a clothespin to the sun.
PARTICIPATE IN A GROUP SONG TOGETHER
Before singing this song: show a photo, or watch a video about a beach!
Sing this song to the tune of the "Wheels on the Bus"
The waves at the beach roll in and out, in and out, in and out.
The waves at the beach roll in and out.
all day long.
Variations:
The dolphins at the beach leap and splash
The fish at the beach swim here and there
The crabs at the beach go snip and snap
The shovels at the beach go dig, dig, dig
Sing this song to the tune of the "Wheels on the Bus"
The waves at the beach roll in and out, in and out, in and out.
The waves at the beach roll in and out.
all day long.
Variations:
The dolphins at the beach leap and splash
The fish at the beach swim here and there
The crabs at the beach go snip and snap
The shovels at the beach go dig, dig, dig
