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Dear AGNES Parents,
We hope you are all well. We have put together a few story ideas to help keep your child's interest during this challenging time.
Please find below some new stories and activities.
We hope you are all well. We have put together a few story ideas to help keep your child's interest during this challenging time.
Please find below some new stories and activities.
Our New Book: Come On Daisy by Jane Simmons
Questions about 'Come On Daisy'
Listen to the story more than once. Now play it again and answer these questions.
- What was Daisy watching?
- What was Daisy chasing?
- What was Daisy bouncing on?
- Who was Daisy talking to?
- Why did Daisy shiver?
- Where did Daisy hide?
- Why did Daisy stop leaving Mamma and start staying very close to her?
- Have you ever been lost or separated from your mum or dad? How did you feel?
Challenge:
Make up your own who, where, what, why and how questions about the story.
Our New Book: Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy
Questions about 'Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy' (Week 1)
Listen to the story more than once. Now play it again and answer these questions.
Questions about 'Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy' (Week 2)
Listen to the story more than once. Now play it again and answer these questions.
Make up your own who, where, what, why and how questions about the story.
Listen to the story more than once. Now play it again and answer these questions.
- Who went out of the gate?
- Who else followed?
- Who is covered in spots?
- Who is as big as a horse?
- Who is like a bundle of hay?
- Who is all skinny and bony?
- Who has a very low tum?
- Who came from out of the shadows?
- What did the other dogs do?
- Why did they rum away home?
- Have you ever been scared of something and felt happy to be back home?
Questions about 'Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy' (Week 2)
Listen to the story more than once. Now play it again and answer these questions.
- How many cats can you remember from the story?
- Where was it set?
- What happened in the beginning of the story?
- What happened in the middle of the story?
- What happened in the end of the story?
- Why do you think Scarface Claw chased the cats?
Make up your own who, where, what, why and how questions about the story.
Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
Our New Book: Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
Questions about Each Peach Pear Plum (Week 1)
Listen to the story more than once. Now play it again and answer these questions.
Now play I spy with a parents or brother and sister using the pictures in the book.
Questions about Each Peach Pear Plum (Week 2)
Listen to the story more than once. Now play it again and answer these questions.
Now play I spy with a parents or brother and sister using the pictures in the book.
Questions about Each Peach Pear Plum (Week 1)
Listen to the story more than once. Now play it again and answer these questions.
- Who was hiding in the tree?
- Who was cleaning in the cellar?
- Who went out hunting?
- Who was up the hill?
- Who was in the ditch?
- Who was in his den?
- Can you name all the characters at the end of the book?
Now play I spy with a parents or brother and sister using the pictures in the book.
Questions about Each Peach Pear Plum (Week 2)
Listen to the story more than once. Now play it again and answer these questions.
- Who is hiding in the cupboard?
- Who is down the cellar?
- Who is on the stairs?
- Who is fast asleep?
- Who is on the hill?
- Who is flying over the wood?
- Can you remember all the characters at the end of the book?
Now play I spy with a parents or brother and sister using the pictures in the book.
The very Busy Spider By Eric Carle
The Animal Boogie by Debbie Harter.
The Animal Boogie by Debbie Harter.
The Rainbow fish
Goldilocks and the tree bears
Grumpy Monkey by Suzanne Lang
Things I Like by Anthony Browne
Jasper's Beanstalk by Nick Butterworth
Answer these questions after the story:
- What is the name of the cat?
- What did he find on Monday?
- Where did he plant it?
- What does 'raked' mean?
- Why did he pick up all the slugs and snails?
- When did he pick up all the slugs and snails?
- How many slugs and snails are there? Count them.
- Why did he dig up the bean?
- Should he have dug it up or left it alone and waited for it to grow? What do you think?
- What story did Jasper read?
- What is the little bird pointing at?
- Think of your day at school or home. When do you have to wait for things? How did you feel?
Answer these questions after the story:
- What is the name of the cat?
- What did he find on Monday?
- Where did he plant it?
- What does 'raked' mean?
- Why did he pick up all the slugs and snails?
- When did he pick up all the slugs and snails?
- How many slugs and snails are there? Count them.
- Why did he dig up the bean?
- Should he have dug it up or left it alone and waited for it to grow? What do you think?
- What story did Jasper read?
- What is the little bird pointing at?
- Think of your day at school or home. When do you have to wait for things? How did you feel?
We're going on a bear hunt By Michael Rosen
The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Questions about the 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Listen to the story more than once. Now play it again and answer these questions.
- When did the caterpillar pop out of the egg.
- What did he eat on Wednesday?
- When did he eat 2 pears?
- Did he eat more plums or strawberries?
- Why did he have stomach ache?
- What is a cocoon?
- How long was he in the cocoon?
- What did he become?
- Have you ever eaten too much?
- The caterpillar changes a lot in the story. How have you changed as you have grown?
- Put these in the correct order as you heard them: butterfly, egg, cocoon
Activities for 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' by Eric Carle
It's spring. It is getting warmer and more plants are beginning to grow. Have you seen any butterflies yet?
- Draw and colour your own butterflies or caterpillars.
- Sing the caterpillar song (see below).
- Make a caterpillar out of paper or card (see below).
- Watch the time lapse video of the caterpillar growing into a beautiful butterfly (see below).
- Find more books by Eric Carle. Listen to them and tell someone which is your favourite.
Sing 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' Song.
Make your own caterpillar.
Monarch Butterfly Metamorphosis time-lapse
The Train Ride By: June Crebbin
Questions about the Train Ride
Listen to the story more than once. Now play it again and answer these questions.
- Who went on a ride?
- What did the travel on?
- Where did they go?
- What did they see?
- What did they go through?
- What flew over them?
- Who met them at the end of the journey?
- How did the girl feel?
- Have you ever travelled on a train or a plane and met a grandparent? How did you feel?
Read the story again later and ask your child these questions:
What is your favourite place?
Who are the characters in 'The Train Ride'?
Where did they go?
What did they see?
Which place would you like to go to? Why?
How did the story end?
How do you think grandma felt?
What is your favourite journey? Why?
Activities for 'The Train Ride'
It's spring. It is getting warmer and more plants are beginning to grow.
Have you seen any butterflies yet?
- Draw and colour your pictures from the book.
- Make up your own 'That's What I See' story.
- Go on a pretend journey around you house. What can you see in each place?
- Watch the video of the steam engine.
- Make your own steam train out of empty milk cartoons.
- Draw and colour a picture for someone you miss.
Practice your letter formation
Nursery Rhymes
Humpty Dumpty
The Itsy Bitsy Spider
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Little Miss Muffet
Jack and Jill
Old MacDonald had a Farm
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Pop Goes The Weasel
Hickory Dickory Dock
Online Stories
Who where the characters in the story?
Where was the story set?
Did you like the story?
What happened in the story?
Phonics Games / Activities
I Spy the Sound
‘I Spy the Sound’ is a fun way to build phonics skills and phonemic
awareness. In this variation of the classic game, ‘I Spy’, ask your child
to spy words that begin with a certain sound, rather than a letter.
For example, “I spy with my little eye, something beginning with
mmm.”
Phonics Hopscotch
This game helps children develop their ability to match letters to
their sounds. All you need for this fun phonics activity is a piece of
chalk and the ground. Simply draw hopscotch markings on the
ground (how many squares and in what shape they are arranged is
up to you). In each square draw a letter of the alphabet (you may
want to draw both the upper and lower case letters in each). There
are many ways you can play this game – you can call out a letter or
combination of letters and ask your child to jump on those letters,
and as they do, for them to sound out each letter. Or you can ask
your child to jump on the letters in alphabetical order, sounding
them out as they go along. You can also roll dice and ask your child
to jump to the square that matches the number rolled, counting the
squares as they jump and sounding the letter out at the end.
The children like singing the 'Ants on the apple' Song.
More Phonics Games can be found at:
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
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Click on Phase 1 and have a go on these:
-The Sound Starters
-The Hickory, Dickory, Dock phonics game.
-The super smoothie phonics game.
-The animal bingo phonics game.
Phonics Bloom
Click here to play fun phonics
games to practice your sounds.
Click on Phase 1 and play the various
phonics games.
