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Three By The Sea

Language: English

Lolly, spider, and Sam lay on the beach and all agreed it was the perfect time for each of them to tell their very own story. LeVar learns that telling a story or listening to one can unlock the imagination as he watches Chicago City Limits, an improvisational performance group. Kids tell their own stories in the books they make. While walking the beach, LeVar explores the history and adventure of sea chanteys, and talks with winners of a sand sculpture contest.

Here are activities to do after watching this episode:

More to Sand

If you live near a beach or if you have a sandbox, discover that there is more to sand than making sand castles. Try making:
a town: Use paper cups as a mold for buildings, make stick fences, and use toy cars and trucks to make roads.
a race track: Build a large mountain with top-to-bottom trails. Then place a marble at the top of each trail and have downhill marble races with your friends.
a game: Dampen the sand and draw a tic-tac-toe board. Use shells or other round objects for each O and two sticks for each X.
a drawing: Dampen the sand and use a stick to make a drawing or write a message to a friend.

  

My Story

Parents or older family members can help younger ones put together an autobiography, the story of a person’s life. Younger family members can create a biography using photographs and writing captions while older children can write a chapter book about themselves.

  • Begin with information about the day you were born: date, time, town, hospital or another place.
  • Next write about, or show in pictures, your earliest memories.
  • Other topics (or chapter titles) you might want to include are: members of my family, best friends, school days, places I have lived, places I have visited, happiest moments, most embarrassing moments, dreams I have.

If an autobiography is too much to handle, try keeping a journal for a month or two. A journal is a private place where you express your thoughts, feelings, and record your memories. Keep a journal in a book with a lock and key, or on your own computer. You will find it most interesting to go back years from now and read about that person you once were.

Check out some of these books on your
next trip to the library:

  • Frog And Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
  • Come Away From The Water, Shirley by John Burningham
  • Regards To the Man In the Moon by Ezra Jack Keats

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