Pre-K Beach–Peggy Roupé
by Peggy Roupe
1. Literacy
1.1. Spot Goes to the Beach, Beach Baby, To the Beach, Out of the Ocean, A Day at the Beach, All You Need for the Beach, Let's Go to the Beach, Sea, Sand, Me, On the Way to the Beach, On My Beach There Are Many Pebbles, Beach Day, Grandma's Beach, On the Beach
1.1.1. Retell stories
1.2. Vocabulary matching to pictures
1.3. Tell about a character
1.4. Rhymes: The Seal
1.5. Matching letters to sounds using beach vocabulary
1.5.1. Write letters in sand
2. Social Studies
2.1. Island cultures
2.2. Similarities and differences: Island and desert cultures
2.3. Make your own beach in a jar
3. Science
3.1. Magnifying glass and seashells
3.2. Manipulate things that exist in sea habitat
3.2.1. sand
3.2.2. shells
3.2.3. smooth stones
3.2.4. plants
3.3. Sink or float
3.3.1. objects in salt water
3.3.2. objects in tap water
3.3.3. salt and tap water
3.4. Marine animals
3.4.1. Animals that live only in water
3.4.2. Animals that live in and out of the water
4. Math
4.1. Sorting shells by smooth and rough
4.2. Ocean and sky - above and below - sort animals
4.3. Count the legs (one-to-one correspondence)
4.3.1. Starfish rhyme