DAY : 2🔗

Topic: Welcome the children to the topic of beach, sand, water, shells and birds.

Vocabulary: beach, sand, water, sea weed, shells, sea, crab, birds.

Material required: Picture chart, toy birds, different kinds of shells.

Presentation: • Talk to the children about the things that we usually find at the beach like sand, water, shells and about birds. • Talk about the texture, color of the sand, how sand gets washed away by waves. • Talk about sand castle. • Shells are invertebrate living beings, they have soft bodies. • When waves reach shore they carry with them lot of shells. • Oysters, clams are some of the kinds of shells. • People process the shells to make beautiful decorative items. • Water in the beach is not fresh water type. • Water in the beach is highly salty due to presence of more sodium minerals. • Penguin, pelican, storks, herons, flamingos, spoonbills are some of the beach birds.

Assessment: • What are the things we can see in the beach? • Have you felt the texture of sand? How is it? Can you count sand? • Can you measure the amount of sound? • Can we drink the beach water? • Why is beach water very salty? • Have you seen the shells? • Shells are hard or soft? • Name few birds found in the beach?

Closing: Conclude the topic by giving few shells and asking them to explore the texture.

Evaluation: Evaluate their sensory skills of tactile discrimination. Evaluate their pre math skills of predicting, estimating and evaluating.

Extension: Children can play displacement activities with sand.

Topic: Invite the children to the topic about beach animals.

Vocabulary: Fishes, plankton, sea mammals, deep sea fishes, sea urchins, starfishes, sea horse, octopus, skates, rays, squids, lancets, shells, corals, sponges.

Material required: Toys, models, pictures, charts.

Presentation: • Beaches serve as a home of many creatures. • Fishes, plankton, sea mammals, sea urchins, starfishes, sea horses, octopus, skates, rays, squirts, lancets, shells, corals, sponges lives in the ocean/ sea. • Many birds depend on sea/ ocean for their food and living. • Penguin, albatross, sea gull depends on sea creatures for their food. • Sea mammals like seal, whale, dolphins, walrus, shark etc depends upon sea creatures like fishes, shrimps, and dolphins for food. • Squids and lancets are small creatures live on sea bed.

Assessment: • Name some sea animals you know? • Where do fishes live? • Name some birds that depend on ocean/ sea? • What do animals in water eat? • What animals or sea creatures have you seen around the sea/ocean? • How do penguins find their food in ocean/ sea?

Closing: Recollect the information about sea animals and ask them open ended questions and observe them.

Evaluation: Language skills. Cognitive skills.

Extension: Children can find different toy sea creatures and make them do 'sand digging'. Explain why keeping the beaches and oceans clean is so important to us and especially to the animals that live in ocean