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Beach Day Activities for the End of the Year

As the school year draws to a close, your students are likely counting down the days until summer vacation! And what better way to kick off the summer season than with a beach day at school?! An end of the year beach party is the perfect opportunity for students to have some “fun in the sun” while reviewing previously taught math and literacy skills. Celebrate the end of the year countdown with these unforgettable beach day activities!

Looking for a fun way to countdown to the last day of school? A classroom beach day is a great way to celebrate the end of the school year while reviewing math skills and literacy skills. These beach day activities include a beach day escape room, beach math activities and literacy centers. Work on CVC words, beginning blends and rhyming words. You can also work on counting and place value. This is a great end of year classroom theme day!

Beach Day Escape Room

Keeping your students engaged at the end of the year can be a difficult task! I always wanted to make the end of the year exciting and memorable, but I also wanted our last weeks to be learning-filled.

To keep my students learning up until the very end, I started a ten day balloon pop end of the year countdown.

One of the balloons was filled with the words “Beach Day.”

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End of the Year Beach Theme Centers | Escape Room Activities

End of the Year Beach Theme Centers | Escape Room Activities

Celebrate the end of the year, as you review math and literacy skills, with these highly engaging circus theme centers! The Case of the Missing Peanuts End of the Year Escape Room involves 6 or 8 different challenges / circus theme centers to eliminate the suspects and discover who has stolen the peanuts!

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On Beach Day, the students would have to help solve “The Case of the Beach Bandit!

Looking for a fun way to countdown to the last day of school? A classroom beach day is a great way to celebrate the end of the school year while reviewing math skills and literacy skills. These beach day activities include a beach day escape room, beach math activities and literacy centers. Work on CVC words, beginning blends and rhyming words. You can also work on counting and place value. This is a great end of year classroom theme day!

First, I set the stage with a note from a beach goer:

I had a beach day,

Scheduled and planned.

But first I need you,

To lend a hand!

The beach bag is gone.

Where did it go?

Who could have it,

I do not know!

Complete each challenge,

And when you’re done,

Eliminate the suspects.

One by one!

Talk about instant engagement!

They could not wait to complete the challenges, eliminate suspects and discover who had stolen the missing beach bag!

Looking for a fun way to countdown to the last day of school? A classroom beach day is a great way to celebrate the end of the school year while reviewing math skills and literacy skills. These beach day activities include a beach day escape room, beach math activities and literacy centers. Work on CVC words, beginning blends and rhyming words. You can also work on counting and place value. This is a great end of year classroom theme day!

But first, they had to create their case files!

Looking for a fun way to countdown to the last day of school? A classroom beach day is a great way to celebrate the end of the school year while reviewing math skills and literacy skills. These beach day activities include a beach day escape room, beach math activities and literacy centers. Work on CVC words, beginning blends and rhyming words. You can also work on counting and place value. This is a great end of year classroom theme day!

Just like a real detective, these case files would hold all of their completed beach day activities and suspect elimination sheet.

Beach Day Centers Set Up

To set up the math and literacy centers, I placed the challenges inside manila envelopes. This made it a little more authentic, but you could also fill tubs/baskets with each activity

You could also use these beach day activities as regular math and literacy centers without the mystery component.

Looking for a fun way to countdown to the last day of school? A classroom beach day is a great way to celebrate the end of the school year while reviewing math skills and literacy skills. These beach day activities include a beach day escape room, beach math activities and literacy centers. Work on CVC words, beginning blends and rhyming words. You can also work on counting and place value. This is a great end of year classroom theme day!

After the students completed each challenge, they received a clue from the guilty suspect.

Based on this clue, they would eliminate a suspect.

Looking for a fun way to countdown to the last day of school? A classroom beach day is a great way to celebrate the end of the school year while reviewing math skills and literacy skills. These beach day activities include a beach day escape room, beach math activities and literacy centers. Work on CVC words, beginning blends and rhyming words. You can also work on counting and place value. This is a great end of year classroom theme day!

Once all of the challenges were completed, they were left with one remaining (and, dare I say, guilty) suspect!

Beach Day Activities for Literacy

Use these beach themed activities for your literacy centers!

Looking for a fun way to countdown to the last day of school? A classroom beach day is a great way to celebrate the end of the school year while reviewing math skills and literacy skills. These beach day activities include a beach day escape room, beach math activities and literacy centers. Work on CVC words, beginning blends and rhyming words. You can also work on counting and place value. This is a great end of year classroom theme day!

To solve the “Clam Challenge,” the students will tap and map sounds in CVC words.

Looking for a fun way to countdown to the last day of school? A classroom beach day is a great way to celebrate the end of the school year while reviewing math skills and literacy skills. These beach day activities include a beach day escape room, beach math activities and literacy centers. Work on CVC words, beginning blends and rhyming words. You can also work on counting and place value. This is a great end of year classroom theme day!

As they complete the “Bucket Challenge,” they will sort pictures by beginning bl and br blends.

Looking for a fun way to countdown to the last day of school? A classroom beach day is a great way to celebrate the end of the school year while reviewing math skills and literacy skills. These beach day activities include a beach day escape room, beach math activities and literacy centers. Work on CVC words, beginning blends and rhyming words. You can also work on counting and place value. This is a great end of year classroom theme day!

At the “Sunglasses Challenge,” they will create a pair of sunglasses by matching the pictures that rhyme.

Looking for a fun way to countdown to the last day of school? A classroom beach day is a great way to celebrate the end of the school year while reviewing math skills and literacy skills. These beach day activities include a beach day escape room, beach math activities and literacy centers. Work on CVC words, beginning blends and rhyming words. You can also work on counting and place value. This is a great end of year classroom theme day!

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Beach Day Activities for Math

Here’s a quick look at the beach day activities for math!

Looking for a fun way to countdown to the last day of school? A classroom beach day is a great way to celebrate the end of the school year while reviewing math skills and literacy skills. These beach day activities include a beach day escape room, beach math activities and literacy centers. Work on CVC words, beginning blends and rhyming words. You can also work on counting and place value. This is a great end of year classroom theme day!

The students will work on numbers 11-20 in base ten, as they complete the “Place Value Pails” activity.

Looking for a fun way to countdown to the last day of school? A classroom beach day is a great way to celebrate the end of the school year while reviewing math skills and literacy skills. These beach day activities include a beach day escape room, beach math activities and literacy centers. Work on CVC words, beginning blends and rhyming words. You can also work on counting and place value. This is a great end of year classroom theme day!

To solve the “Sea Shell Challenge,” they will find the missing addend of each number bond.

Looking for a fun way to countdown to the last day of school? A classroom beach day is a great way to celebrate the end of the school year while reviewing math skills and literacy skills. These beach day activities include a beach day escape room, beach math activities and literacy centers. Work on CVC words, beginning blends and rhyming words. You can also work on counting and place value. This is a great end of year classroom theme day!

Then, they will find the difference by removing the correct number of beach balls.

Looking for a fun way to countdown to the last day of school? A classroom beach day is a great way to celebrate the end of the school year while reviewing math skills and literacy skills. These beach day activities include a beach day escape room, beach math activities and literacy centers. Work on CVC words, beginning blends and rhyming words. You can also work on counting and place value. This is a great end of year classroom theme day!

To practice nonstandard measurement, they will measure the length of each surfboard.

Beach Day Escape

Grab The Case of the Beach Bandit, including all eight math and literacy centers, here!

Looking for a fun way to countdown to the last day of school? A classroom beach day is a great way to celebrate the end of the school year while reviewing math skills and literacy skills. These beach day activities include a beach day escape room, beach math activities and literacy centers. Work on CVC words, beginning blends and rhyming words. You can also work on counting and place value. This is a great end of year classroom theme day!

Similar to “The Case of the Beach Bandit,” this digital beach day escape room also includes eight math and literacy challenges. After the students complete each challenge, they will move further along the path.

Looking for a fun way to countdown to the last day of school? A classroom beach day is a great way to celebrate the end of the school year while reviewing math skills and literacy skills. These beach day activities include a beach day escape room, beach math activities and literacy centers. Work on CVC words, beginning blends and rhyming words. You can also work on counting and place value. This is a great end of year classroom theme day!

A hidden suspect will be uncovered and eliminated after each challenge. Once all eight beach day activities have been completed, they will have eliminated all but one suspect!

More End of the Year Theme Days

Your students might also enjoy these Ice Cream Day activities!

An ice cream day is the perfect way to countdown to the end of the year. Today, I am sharing my favorite ice cream day activities for kids. This classroom theme day allows early elementary students to work on math skills and literacy skills. Students get to work on an escape room, ice cream centers for beginning digraphs, rhyming words and CVC words. They also get to work on 1:1 counting and making patterns. Enjoy these end of year activities in your kindergarten and first grade classroom!

Don’t forget to check out our Bubble Day!

Bubble Day is always a class favorite in our balloon pop end of the year countdown! On this end of the year theme day, the students mix a homemade bubble solution recipe for bouncing bubbles on their hand, determine the best bubble blower, compare the anatomy of a bubble to an Oreo and make a bubble wand. These end of the year Bubble Day activities for kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade are sure to pique their interest, especially during the anticipation of the end of the school year!

Read about our Marshmallow Day here!

Celebrate the school year with these Marshmallow Day end of the year activities! Use these hands-on math and literacy activities to review skills and explore science concepts, during your end of the year countdown, end of the year theme days or end of the year party! Don’t forget to invite your preschool, kindergarten and 1st grade students to make solar s’mores, as you celebrate with these Camping Day activities! #endoftheyear #kindergarten #firstgrade #teacher #teachers #themedays #elementarty

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Looking for a fun way to countdown to the last day of school? A classroom beach day is a great way to celebrate the end of the school year while reviewing math skills and literacy skills. These beach day activities include a beach day escape room, beach math activities and literacy centers. Work on CVC words, beginning blends and rhyming words. You can also work on counting and place value. This is a great end of year classroom theme day!
Looking for a fun way to countdown to the last day of school? A classroom beach day is a great way to celebrate the end of the school year while reviewing math skills and literacy skills. These beach day activities include a beach day escape room, beach math activities and literacy centers. Work on CVC words, beginning blends and rhyming words. You can also work on counting and place value. This is a great end of year classroom theme day!
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Ashley Sharp

As a dedicated Kindergarten teacher for nearly 20 years, I believe the words “fun, play, and creativity” can sit right alongside the words “developmentally appropriate, engaging, and rigorous.” Learning is meant to be fun and messy!

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