[bright cheerful music] - Hi, friends.

My name is Anna, and this is- - Jada.

- Jada.

And Jada, how old are you?

- Four.

- Four.

And you're in pre-K, right?

Yeah?

Well today, Jada and I were talking about all the things that we love to do when we go to the beach, right?

What are some things that you like to do when we go to the beach, Jada?

- Find seashells, turtles, starfish.

Swim in the water.

- Swim in the water.

You definitely like swimming in the water, and the waves, right?

- Yeah, the wave pool.

[Anna laughs] - It feels like you're in a wave pool, right?

- Yeah!

- The waves push you back?

- Like, [makes whooshing sound].

- Oh yeah.

- And then I go back.

- They push you back so far.

You got knocked over the last time we went to the beach.

[laughing] Yeah, you did.

- I was like, [makes whooshing sound].

Right into the soap.

- Into the sand.

You got the sand in your mouth, right?

Yeah.

- Uh, uh.

- It wasn't that good.

- Disgusting.

[Anna laughs] - Well, today we were actually going to read a book together.

Would you like to hear the story with us?

Should we read the story with our friends?

Yeah?

Okay.

So the title of the book is "Sandy Toes: "A Summer Adventure".

And this book, words by Shauntay Grant, pictures by Candice Bradley.

What do you see the kids doing on the front cover already?

- [Jada] Making a sand castle.

- Yeah, they're making a sand castle.

You like making sand castles, right?

Yeah.

Okay, so as we're reading, I want you to pay close attention to some of the pages, because there's a little, little tiny friend that appears on most of the pages, and I wanna see if you can find those little tiny friends.

Don't tell them.

- I'm not!

- You're not, okay.

- And there's one more.

- What?

Okay, we're not gonna tell them.

Okay.

- I'm not.

- They're gonna try to see all the things they can see?

Yeah, there's a lot of little things that you can see on the page, so look really carefully at the pictures, all right?

All right, so "Sandy Toes: A Summer Adventure.

"Words by Shauntay Grant, pictures by Candice Bradley.

"Beach, board, boy."

What do you see on this page?

- [Jada] Turtle.

- [Anna] Oh, you see turtles?

Oh, I see the little turtles in the water.

What else do you see?

- [Jada] A hat.

- [Anna] Oh, yeah.

Who do you think's wearing that hat?

- [Jada] A mom.

- The mom is wearing the hat?

- Like you.

- Like me, okay.

- Um, a dad holding, um, what's this called?

- [Anna] Flamingo?

- [Jada] A flamingo.

- Like the floaty?

- Yeah.

- [Anna] Mm-hmm.

So do you think they're going to the beach, or they're leaving the beach?

- Going.

- You think they're going to the beach?

I think they're going to the beach, too.

Okay, let's see.

"Food, fort, fun."

What are some fun things you like to do at the beach?

- [Jada] Eat food.

- [laughing] Eat food.

What kind of- - Fish!

- What kind of, oh, you see a starfish?

But what kind of food do you like to eat at the beach?

- Hmm, you know.

- I know, but they don't know, so what kind of food do you like to eat at the beach?

- Sausage!

- You mean the hot dogs?

Like the- - Yeah.

- Yeah, like the sausage hot dogs?

- Yeah, it's good.

- Those are really yummy.

[laughing] [bright music] What else do you see on this page?

- [Jada] Turtles, what's this called?

- [Anna] The little turtles.

Oh, like the picnic basket?

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

- [Jada] No, no, this.

- [Anna] Oh, the blanket that they're sitting on?

- Uh-huh.

- Mm-hmm, yup.

I see the little turtles, too.

Yeah.

- [Jada] She is cute.

- They're very cute and tiny.

- Seashells.

- And you see some seashells, right?

- Yeah, I love seashells.

They're my favorite.

- They are your favorite.

"Calm, cool, kite."

- [Jada] Kite.

- You also see the kite?

Good job using that first sound.

- Turtle!

- And you see the t-t-turtles.

[Anna gasps] [soft music] "Run."

Why are they running?

- [Jada] They gotta try to get the k-k-k-kite.

- [Anna] They're trying to catch the kite.

Look, they accidentally let go of the string.

Oh no!

Do you think they're going to catch it?

- [Jada] Yes, yes.

- [Anna] Yes, yes?

- [Jada] Yes.

- [Anna] All right, let's see.

"Run, run!"

Oh, look who caught the kite.

- [Jada] The, the, the baby.

- [Anna] [laughing] The baby.

[Jada giggles] - The baby.

Goo-goo.

- [Anna] "Flip, flop."

Wow, look at all those pretty seashells.

- [Jada] Flamingo.

- [Anna] Flamingo also starts with F at the beginning, right?

- [Jada] B-b-boys.

- [Anna] You love those beginning sounds, right?

- [Jada] G-g-g-girls.

- [Anna] Oh, here's another word that starts with a F sound.

- [Jada] Float.

- High five.

Float.

You like to float in the water, right?

- [Jada] Like, like really leaning back.

- [Anna] When you do starfish in the water, right?

- When you put your arms.

- Right, you put your arms out.

And what else do you put out for starfish?

Your arms and your?

Your arms, well they can't see your legs, but you have to put your arms and your legs out for starfish to help you float when you're in the water, right?

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

"Long legs leap."

[Jada gasps] Do you think he's gonna be able to leap over the entire puddle?

- [Jada] No, he cannot.

It's too huge!

- [Anna] That's too huge?

But look, look at our little friends, the little turtles that are there.

- [Jada] [gasps] Starfish!

- [Anna] And you found another starfish- - Seashell.

- And a seashell.

You love those starfish and seashells.

"Big blue boat."

- [Jada] Um- - What do you see?

- Girl.

- [Anna] Mm-hmm, you see a girl.

- [Jada] Sh-sh-shovel.

- [Anna] Oh, you see the shovel.

- [Jada] Water.

- [Anna] There's water.

- [Jada] Sand.

- [Anna] Sand, well, let's see what the next page tells us.

- [Jada] Ooh!

- [Anna] "Sun".

- [Jada] Sun.

- [Anna] "Sand."

You just said sand.

Look what he's making.

[bright music] - [Jada] A sand angel!

- [Anna] [laughing] A sand angel instead of a snow angel, right?

- [Jada] Snow angel.

The dad, the mom, and the sister are laying on their towels.

- [Anna] They are laying on their towels.

You are correct.

"Sleep".

Sometimes it's nice to take a nap at the beach, right?

- [Jada] And there's a whole sunscreen.

- [Anna] There is sunscreen.

It's very important to put sunscreen on, right?

Yeah.

- [Jada] Water.

- [Anna] There's water.

- [Jada] And little friends, turtle.

- [Anna] See the little turtle right in the back?

Mm-hmm, the glass there.

- Eight turtles.

- There are eight turtles?

- Yeah.

- You're right.

There are eight turtles.

High five for counting all those turtles.

So the next time you go to the beach, what do you think you're gonna do?

- Do the same thing in the book.

- So like what?

Pick something, what did you like in the book that you're gonna do next time you go to the beach?

- Mm, pick out seashells.

- Pick out seashells.

- Of course swim in the water.

- Of course swim in the water, and what else?

- Put sunscreen.

- And put on sunscreen.

Very important.

- Um.

- One more thing.

- Play with my beach ball.

Since me, since one of my friends had a party, and they had beach balls.

- And you got a beach ball from the party.

Okay, I think that's a good idea.

I think next time we go to the beach, I am definitely going to wear my sunscreen.

You're right.

I need to wear my sunscreen.

- Beach ball!

- And I'm gonna play with you with the beach balls.

And I'm gonna go in the water.

- And one more thing!

- One more thing what?

- We have to take off our glasses.

- Well, we'll take off our glasses when we go in the water, yeah.

Well, I hope you enjoyed the story.

"Sandy Toes: A Summer Adventure".

Start thinking about some of the things you would do if you could go to the beach, and if you actually get a chance to go to the beach, do those things, right?

- I have a surprise for you!

- Well for now, we're gonna have to say goodbye to our friends, okay?

- Bye!

- And maybe next time, we can show them some other surprises about things we do at the beach.

I know, 'cause that's one of the things you do at the beach, right?

Go ahead.

What's the other thing you do at the beach?

Eat what?

- Eat ice cream!

- Eat ice cream.

- Ice cream!

- Yeah, it's eat ice cream.

All right, can we say goodbye to our friends until next time?

- Bye.

- Bye!