Learning With My Boys: Oceans Day 9 -The Beach

The Beach

Read: Clams all Year by Maryann Cocoa-Leffler

Discuss: Walking along a beach you can find lots of different kinds of shells that have been washed up. The shells once belonged to animals.

Paper Place Beach

Materials:

Paper Plate
Blue Tissue Paper
Sand
Sea Shells
Construction Paper
Glue
Scissors

Directions:

Glue sand onto the bottom half of the plate for the beach.
Glue the blue tissue paper to the top half of your paper plate for the ocean.
Glue a few small shells to the beach.
Cut a sail boat, beach umbrella, fish, shovel and pail out of construction paper and glue them on.

Ocean Riddles
I had these Ocean Riddles in my files. J liked to figure them out.

Beach Pudding

Materials:

Butterscotch Pudding
Graham Crackers
Blue Sugar Sprinkles
Paper Umbrella
Teddy Grahams
Shark or Fish Gummies
Fruit Roll-ups (for a beach towel)
Peachy-O's Gummies (for an inner tube)
Clear Plastic Cup

Directions:

Make pudding according to directions and place it in a few little cups.
Crush up the graham crackers in a plastic baggie.
Use a spoon to cover half of the pudding with blue sugar sprinkles (for the water) and the other have with the graham cracker crumbs (for the beach).
Cut a small rectangle from the fruit roll up for a beach towel and place it in the sand.
Place Teddy Graham on the beach towel and add the umbrella.
Add a Peachy-o gummy for the inner tube and put a Teddy Graham in the water too.
Add some fish gummies to the water.

Sandpaper Sandcastle

Materials:

Sandpaper
Markers
Scissors
Craft Stick
Construction Paper

Directions:

1. Draw a sandcastle on the sandpaper.

2. Cut out the sandcastle.

3. Cut a flag out of the construction paper and glue it to the craft stick, then glue the craft stick to the top of your castle.

Sea Shells in the Sand

I gave J a jar of sea shells to play with in the sand by the play ground.

Sea Shell Addition

Materials:

Sand
Sea Shells
Black Marker

Directions:

Write a number between 0 and 10 on the bottom of each shell and bury the shells in the sand.
Child chooses 2 shells and writes the addition combination with his finger in the sand.

Observe a Shell

I had this packet for shell observation in my files. J had fun doing some shell science.

Listening to the shell.

Measuring the shells.

Sand Dollar Fives

Discuss:

Sand dollars have 5 holes, and a 5 point star. They are hard and spiny shaped like a coin. They live on sandy sea floors about 30-40 feet under water. Sand dollars partly bury themselves under the sand with an edge poking out. If you break open a dead sand dollar you will find many hard white pieces that were the sand dollars teeth. Their hard skin is made of calcium carbonate plates. The bottom side is where the mouth is. They have tiny tube feel that are used as gills. The holes on the top side are for reproduction. They eat tiny particles of food that floats in the water.

Materials:

Sand dollars (real or paper)
Smaller sea shells (or dry beans)

Directions:

Make a number line by place sea shells in a line for numbers 1-4.
Place a sand dollar next in the line for number 5.
Then more sea shells for numbers 5-9.
And another sand dollar for number 10, etc..
After you have built your number line ask addition and subtraction problems like “what is 10+3? or what is 2 less than 5?)

Paper Plate Oyster

Materials:

2 Small Paper Plates
Paint pink and blue
White Pom-pom
Scissors
Glue

Directions:

Paint the back of one paper plate blue.
Cut the second paper plat in half and paint the back parts pink. Let them both dry.
Bend the gray on in half so the painted part is on the outside.
Glue the pink parts inside of the folded plate.
Glue the white pom-pom pearl inside the oyster.

Painting a Sun Catcher

I found this palm tree sun catcher clearenced at the end of the summer. J likes to paint them, but this time he decided to try glitter glue on it. It turned out nice.