After our startup bean bag song, we got to reading and managed to read four books!
Holly's Day at the Pool by Benson Shum was a good start. This is a good story about bravery and on how silly it can be to worry too much. Holly the hippo is scared to go swimming for the first time. She imagines all the things that could go wrong if she decides to swim. With the help of her hippo family, she overcomes her fear and ends up being a very brave hippo.
For our beach activity, I asked who wanted some ice cream after swimming with Holly. We each got a felt scoop of ice cream of all different colors and "flavors" and each were asked to put their color ice cream on the flannel board when called. We talked about our favorite flavors and colors and counted how many scoops of ice cream were on top of the cone on the flannel board.
Our next book and the favorite of the day was Pete the Cat: Pete at the Beach by James Dean. My group loves Pete the Cat so I knew I had to read this one. We explored the happenings on the beach with Pete and Pete too was scared of swimming.
I did a quick flannel rhyme using "five little seashells" and then we read our last two books, Noni the Pony Goes to the Beach by Alison Lester and Bugs at the Beach by David A. Carter. Noni and her friends have fun on the beach and the bugs do everything beachy in the sand.
Bugs at the Beach is an easy reader/beginning reader and I usually don't like using them in storytime because the pictures can be too small for an audience and the sentences sometimes don't flow as well for a read-out-loud, but this was a quick book to end storytime that went along with the theme.
For our craft, we made octopuses out of cupcake liners and paper strips. We talked about how many legs an octopus has and the kids liked choosing what color cupcake liners to use.
Doesn't a beach day sound nice right about now?
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