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Today's
Stories
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Spot
Goes to the Beach
by Eric Hill
Sunshine
by Jan Ormerod
Tom & Pippo
on the Beach
by Helen Oxenbury
A Summer Day
by Douglas Florian
Swim
by Eve Rice
Hot City
by Barbara Joosse
Clifford Keeps Cool
by Norman Bridwell
Come On, Rain!
by Karen Hesse
Into
the A, B, Sea: An Ocean Alphabet
by Deborah Lee Rose
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Water
Lens
You will need: A clear, plastic, two-liter soda bottle
Craft knife or scissors | Cloth or duct tape (water resistant)
A
water lens allows kids too look at objects underwater in a wading
pool, bath tub or at the beach. Cut the top from a plastic soda
bottle. Carefully remove the black bottom, leaving a clear, curved
container. (One piece, clear soda bottles have molded bottoms
that can distort the view of objects.) Cover the rim with tae
and cut two small slits, opposite each other, near the top, making
handles. Tape the edges of hand slits.
Show kids how to put the curved end of the ends into the water (not so
deep that water spills inside), and how to look inside to see objects,
fish, plants, and toys beneath the waves or below bath bubbles.
Safety Tip: Never leave your child unattended near water, no matter how
shallow. Also, do not allow your child to put his or her face completely
inside the water lens. The container can also be used to carry small
loads of beach toys to and from the pool or shore.
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 Watermelon
Song
(Tune of: Are You Sleeping?)
Watermelon, Watermelon,
(Make a circle with your arms.)
On the vine, on the vine,
(Curve hands and arms beside body.)
Sweet and red and juicy,
Sweet and red and juicy,
(Rub your tummy.)
Please be mine! Please be mine!
(Palms together as though pleading.)
Watermelon, Watermelon,
(Make a circle with your arms.)
Thump, thump, thump,
Thump, thump, thump,
(Thumping with thumb and middle finger.)
I think you are ready, I think you are ready-
(Point, resting finger on your temple.)
Big and plump! Bug and plump!
(Make a circle with your arms.)
Ant Hill
Once
I saw an ant hill with no ants about.
(hold out fist with fingers tucked in)
So I said, "Dear little ants,
won't you come out?"
Then, as if the little ants had heard my call,
One, two, three, four, five come out,
(as numbers are called, fingers are extended)
And that was all! |
My
Garden
This is my garden
(extend palm)
I rake it with care
(pretend to rake with three fingers)
And then I plant flower seeds in there.
(pretend to plant)
The sun will shine
(hold arms in circle over head)
and the rain will fall
(wiggle fingers on both hands as move downwards)
and my garden will blossom
(cup hands)
and grow straight and tall
(stretch arms/hands up slowly)
Digging in the
Sand
(Tune of: Farmer in the Dell)
We’re digging
in the sand,
 We’re
digging in the sand,
Hi-ho-the derrio.
We’re digging in the sand.
Repeat with:
filling up the pail
pouring out the sand
making roads in sand |
