A selection of activities used in early years linked to the book Dear Zoo. Maths activities include weighing the animals using numicon and literacy activities include using talk for writing actions, drawing story maps and innovating the story.
Some activities we used in Early Years linked to the story 'The Papaya that Spoke' using talk for writing. Children used actions to retell the story, made story maps then innvoated the story to create a new story 'the strawberry that spoke.'
Planning for Nursery children using the text The Little Red Hen. Includes literacy and numeracy activities, other area planning and ideas for child initiated play.
Activites and planning ideas I used with the text Aliens Love Underpants. Includes making aliens out of 2D shape and colouring pants and socks in repeating patterns
Lesson plan which was used with Reception children on describing the setting of a forest. Included collecting things from the outdoor area to describe.
Ideas for literacy and numeracy which I used with Reception children. It was an excellent book which especially engaged the boys. The planning ideas are in word format but the resources are all created using active inspire so you will need this to open them. Hope you enjoy.
Literacy and Numeracy planning which was used with Nursery children. Literacy includes using the initiative 'Talk for Writing.' Also included is area plans for the classroom, topic plans and several worksheets for both Literacy and Numeracy.
Activities linked to the story Jack and the Beanstalk which we used in early years. Also we wrote a new story we're going on a giant hunt and retold this story in the outdoor area and using story trays. maths incudes counting beans, adding beans, patten beanstalks, measuring beanstalks, ordering leaves on a beanstalk. literacy includes retelling both stories, describing the giant and making story maps.