Once you have finished teaching at the beach vocabulary, use my resources to continue lessons. For example, take my first preschool story, I’m Hungry.  In this story, various animals meet and greet each other. To play with greetings, make a meeting place by drawing a circle in the sand. Then, add an opening at each side that can be a gate for animals to come in and out. If your beach is dry sand and you can’t make a ring, use a scarf, a rope, a mat, or shells and driftwood. Finally, tell the story using this beach setting. It will seem more real for kids. When you tell the story again, have the kids mime the animals. Then, make a bigger greeting area and, instead of flashcards, have pupils be the animals.

To use my second story at the beach (Anna goes to the Zoo,) have kids collect beach items, like pebbles and shells, and count them. Draw animals on stones. Make piles of sand and count those. Count the towers on a sandcastle. Put animal flashcards into buckets, space them out between you and the sea and have kids run to the buckets and bring back an animal.

Movement

As the lesson continues, let children move about, miming, fetching things, and making things. For example:

1. Bring them into a circle for a calm game such as “Freeze.” For this, sit them down and tell them to freeze every time you say an animal. Leave them freezing for a while, as this will calm them.
2. Have them mime objects in the circle.
3. Have kids draw vocabulary pictures in the sand.

Spelling

Have kids write their names in the sand with their fingers, shells, sticks, or pebbles if you are teaching reading and writing

Keep more boisterous games for the end

Stand in the water and throw a ball; the bigger, the better, so it is easy to catch. Ask a question, throw the ball, the child answers, and throws the ball back to you. Then, have kids pass the ball around the circle. When you clap, the one with the ball has to answer a question in English or do a silly forfeit like pretend to be a seagull.