SPLASH! Summer Reading Club: 2-5 Week 1

Beach Vacation

2’s and 3’s, 4’s and 5’s

1.      Storytime – Starting Song

I WIGGLE MY FINGERS
(A Movement Rhyme)
I wiggle my fingers,
I wiggle my toes,
I wiggle my shoulders,
I wiggle my nose.
Now no more wiggles
Are left in me,
So I can sit as still as can be.

2.      Read first story “There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Shell”,

3.   Song: PRETTY SHELLS

Tune: "Jingle Bells"
Pretty shells, pretty shells
Laying all around.
What a lovely sight to see
Shells upon the ground.

Pick one up, it's good luck!
Listen to the roar
Of the never ending waves
That beat upon the shore.

-by Jean Warren

OR: SAND

Sand in my swimsuit,
Sand in my hair,
When I go to the beach
Sand gets everywhere!

I wonder, I wonder,
Oh, how can there be
Sand left at the beach
When there's so much on me?

-by Helen H. Moore

4.   Read second story “Scaredy Squirrel at the Beach”

 

5.  Song: THE WAVES AT THE BEACH

(Tune: “The wheels on the bus”)

The waves at the beach

The waves at the beach go up and down

The crabs at the beach crawl back and forth

Lobsters at the beach go snap, snap, snap

Clams at the beach go open and shut

-by Jean Warren

6. Read third story “Miss Rumphius" or "The Boy on the Beach"

9. Crafts: Seashell Imprints

Give each child play-dough and allow them to make imprints

       Supplies

       –Play dough

–Scissors

–Shells

      –Plastic baggies (to take them home in)

OR:  Leigh

Materials

   –Tissue Paper

   –Yarn (long enough to reach around children's necks)

Instructions

Before hand, cut out squares of tissue paper of various colors and use a punch to create a hole through the middle. Then the children can string the paper onto the yarn in order to construct a leigh.