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Possible Activities
Create patterns with shells, stones, driftwood.
Use items found on the beach to sort by
length or height.
Counting shells, pebbles up and back from
any number to 20.
Practise positional language through games
on the beach.
Order pieces of driftwood by length or height.
Weighing and comparing shells, stones.
Favourite Sea creature tally chart and
pictogram.
Match number to quantity using shells,
pebbles etc.
Beach or ice-cream shop.
Possible Activities
- Visit to a local beach -look at
features of the beach,
- Collect driftwood, shells and flotsam
for art projects back at school.
- Have a selection of fish, crab,
prawns, mussels – gloves magnifying
glasses-children to investigate.
- Look at patterns on shells, crabs and
stones.
- Discuss pollution, looking after our
oceans, recycling
- Using digital cameras-children to take
their own beach photos.
-Use Bee-bots as crabs!
-ICT- Using ‘Paint’ draw sea creatures
and create an underwater scene.
- Sea shell hunt
- Underwater habitats
- A house for a hermit crab – book.
Who lives in a rockpool?
Mathematical Development
(Numbers, Shape, space and measures)
- Counting up and back to 20 and beyond.
- Counting to 100 in 10’s.
- In practical activities and discussion, beginning to
Use 1 more 1 less, use vocabulary involved in adding
and subtracting.
- Count on 2, 3 or 4 from a hidden quantity.
- Uses positional language, describing position
behind, next to.
- order 2/3 items by length or height.
- order two items by weight or capacity, using nonspecific units.
- Use familiar objects and common shapes to create
and recreate patterns and build models.
- Money-children revise and learn coins from 1p to
£2-order coins according to value. Subtract small
amounts, begin to recognise and write subtraction
sentences.
- partition 5, 6 and 10 objects into 2 groups to order,
find pairs of numbers with totals of 5,6,10. Record
and read.
Understanding the World
(People communities and The World.
Technology)
- Asking questions about the natural world. Life on
the beach ,rockpools.
- Talk about objects they have observed: plants,
animals, natural and found objects.
- Looking closely at similarities and differences.
- Look at similarities differences, patterns and
change.
- make observations of animals and plants and
explain why some things occur, and talk about
changes.
- Opportunities in ICT to recognise that a range
of technology is used in places such as homes
and schools. Children select and use
technology for particular purposes.
Possible Activities
-taking turns, sharing and supporting
each other.
- Circle games
- Role Play
- sharing a shell story by Julia Donaldson
- Class assembly
- Parents open day/session
- Team games for sports day
- Appropriate/ adapted behaviour for
school trips and outings.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development.
(Self -confidence, awareness, managing
feelings and behaviour, making relationships)
-Children play co-operatively, taking turns
with others. They take account of one
another’s ideas about how to organise their
activity. They show sensitivity to others’
needs and feelings, and form positive
relationships with adults and other
children.
Communication, Language and Literacy
(Speaking & Listening, reading, writing,)
- Read, Write, Inc Phonics programme (RWI) or
equivalent phase in letters and sounds.
- Write short sentences in meaningful
contexts.
- Understanding why? And how? Questions.
- Children learn facts about sea creatures and
the features of non-fiction texts
- Listens and responds to ideas expressed by
others in conversation or discussion.
- Use talk to organise, sequence and clarify
thinking, ideas, feelings and events.
- Uses some clearly identifiable letters to
communicate meaning
- Writes own name and other things such as
labels, captions.
- Continues a rhyming string in both reading
and writing activities.
Trip to
Exmouth
beach.
Possible Activities
- Holiday news.
- Read ‘Come away from the water Shirley’ John Burningham.
encourage role play acting out the story.
- Sequencing events, can children write their own version?
- Develop a culture of asking questions-question of the week?
- Library loan-stuffed seabirds- use as inspiration for information
booklets.
- Pictures of plants and animals that live near the coast -as
writing stimulus-write a caption.
- Seaside poems -Nick Sharrat and sea creature shape poems
- Beach memory jars.
- Children work together to produce class books about sea
creatures – non fiction
- Sally and the limpet-Simon James
- Postcard from our trip
- Write a special message in a bottle.
- Play ‘Who am I?’ Guess the sea creature
- Sea creature puppet story
- The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch – book
Physical Development
(Moving and Handling Health and Self-care)
- Use simple tools to effect changes to materials.
-Handles tools, objects, construction and malleable
materials safely and with increasing control.
- Jumps off an object and lands appropriately.
- Negotiates space successfully when
playing racing and chasing games
with other children, adjusting speed or
changing direction to avoid
obstacles.
- Travels with confidence and skill
around, under, over and through
balancing and climbing equipment.
- Shows increasing control over an object in
pushing, patting, throwing, catching or kicking it.
Possible Activities
- Sand cleaning activity, modelling
with sand-castles etc.
- Ball games with big beach balls.
- Crab football
- Music and movement- move like a
crab, shark, jelly fish etc.
- Magnetic fishing game
- Prepare for Sports day – a variety
of games and races/ Athletics.
Possible Activities
Expressive arts and design
(Exploring and using media and materials.
Being imaginative)
-Constructing with a purpose in mind, using a variety of
resources.
-Captures experiences and responses with a range of
media: music, dance, paint, materials, and words.
- They represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings
through design and technology, art, music, dance, role
play and stories
- Children safely use and explore a variety of materials,
tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design,
texture, form and function.
- Use Andy Goldsworthy art as a stimulus- children to use
natural objects to make their own art.
- Use feathers and materials to create natural collages.
- Sea creature hand prints.
- Clay modelling -printing shells.
- Use multi -media to create pictures of beach visit.
- Use sand and paint mix to create seascapes. Use a
variety of paints -water colours, acrylic, poster paint.
- Paper plate or shower cap jelly fish
- Design your own sea creature
- Scented play dough and/or moon sand
- Use magnets and paper plates to make swimming
jellyfish
- Cooking activities with volunteer
- Music activities with Mr Curtis