Oh I do like to be beside the seaside!

Today we have been learning all about the seaside! We talked about things we like to do at the seaside - lots of us like building sandcastles and some of us like making mazes and other things with the sand! We all like eating ice cream, some of us like sunbathing and most of us like going swimming in the sea!

We used blue and yellow blankets to make a seaside role play and played with the buckets and spades in the sand. We also made some textured seaside pictures. We used blue cellophane for the water - it's really smooth. We used yellow paint with sand in it for the grainy, bumpy, gritty sand - it's rough.

This afternoon we have been doing history and learning about seasides in the past. We were learning to talk about similarities and differences and we compared two pictures - one from the seaside in the present day, and one from the seaside in the past. Maddie noticed straight away that the picture from the past was old - "That picture is old because it's black and that one's got colour so it's now." We had to read statements and decide if they applied to seasides in the past, seasides now, or both. We learnt that beaches were crowded and popular places in the past and still are today, and people enjoyed digging in the sand and building sandcastles in the past, which they still do today. People also still use umbrellas to give shade from the sun, like they did in the past. In the picture we looked at of the seaside in the past, people were wearing dark clothes and keeping themselves well covered from the sun. Now, people wear bright swimming costumes and enjoy the sun.