Beach Party

We had our end of the year beach party on Thursday. We went outside with the three other full day kindergarten classes and played several games. Our first game we split the kids into 5 teams. They raced from the bucket to a hula hoop with letters inside. A word was called out and they had to go find the beginning, middle or end sound that was said in the hoop, bring it back and put it in the bucket. Our second game was Sharks and Minnows! We chose 5 or 6 sharks to start off the game. The rest of the students were minnows. Once the whistle was blown, they raced to the other end of the playground, trying to not get caught! If they were tagged, they turned into seaweed. Seaweed is able to tag other runners but cannot move their legs, only their arms. The game is over when only a few minnows are left running. Those minnows become the new sharks! We finished the afternoon of games off by writing our favorite words and numbers with sidewalk chalk! After we came in from the game time, we watched an ocean themed movie and had ice cream sundaes sitting on our beach towels! Yum!