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	Pre-School - The Sea

THEME: The Sea  This series looks at: The shapes, sounds and colours of the sea. Creatures that live in the sea and on the beach.  Things to do by the sea and on the sea. Song of the Week.  An animation of the song, 'Here is the Sea.'

Songs  Rolling all around  How Can you Make a Fish  (Chant)  Swim Little Duck  Everybody Do This Here is the Sea   Here is the sea, the wavy sea   Here is a boat   And here is me   And little fishes, way down below   Wiggle their tails   And away they go. Here is the Sea  Bubbles are Shiny  My Horsey's a-Walking  Let's Go Walking   Rolling All Around   Splish Splash Splosh   Swim Like A Fish Zoom   We Are All Stamping   Here is the Sea   Taba Naba Here is the Sea   In the Summer Time   Three Jellyfish   I'm a Little Teapot There's a Bear in There

Sea Creatures Activities   Roller painting a blue sea  scape.   Making fish out of items  from the useful box. The  fish and washing basket  rocks are added to the sea  scape. Baths and Boats Islands On a large piece of cardboard,  use paint and collage materials  to make an underwater scene.  Add crepe paper sea weed,  paper bag and wrapping paper  fish or create the environment  under a table hanging sea  weed and fish from the  underside of the table.  Make a heads and tails  memory game. Cut out from old  magazines pictures of sea  creatures, back them with  cardboard then cut them in half.  Shuffle the cards, turn them face  down. Take turns to match the  correct head to tail. People and the Sea  Dramatic play: A sea  rescue Going to the Beach

Dramatic play:   Pretend to be various sea  creatures hiding from  the hungry shark. Story Swimmy by Leo Lionni (Alfred A.  Knopf, New York) Henry's Bath by Margaret  Perversi and Ron Brooks  (Viking- Penguin Books  Australia) Magic Beach by Alison Lester  (Allen and Unwin) The Rainbow Fish MORE SONGS  Put Your Finger on Your Nose   I'm Riding Along   Take you Riding in My Car   Heads and Shoulders   Here is the Sea   Little Shell   Splish! Splash! Splosh!   I Can Run as Fast as You

Art and Craft Make a sand picture. Use a brush and paste to make a  'drawing'. Sprinkle the page with sand and then shake off. You should have a sand picture.   Make a fish from a paper plate.   Cut centre circle and small  piece of the outer rim for tail.   Paste a small pieces of paper  for scales.   Take a trip to the fish markets  or a fish shop. Look at all the  types of fish and sea creatures. Use a straw to blow  into a cup covered with a  stocking, to create a  bubble cloud. A bubble  picture is made by lacing  a piece of paper onto the  bubble cloud. Make a fish mobile. Cut out fish  shapes and decorate with paint  or crayons. Attach string and tie  to a coat hanger.  Fill a shallow tray with water.  Add boats made of corks or  paper. Blow on the water to  make small waves to move the  boats. Create stories about 'What  happened when you went to  sea?' Play bury the stick. The other  person has to find it by 'hot'  'cold' clues.   Make sand sculptures, shaping  sand to make any shape or  object.  Play with a beach ball.

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