GREAT+BOOKS+AND+RELATED+ACTIVITIES

  **A FANTASTIC BUNCH OF BOOKS AND IDEAS**  Great site for [|Brown bear, brown bear what do you see?] make up a class book using photos and names 'Peter, Peter what do you see?' can also turn this into a game - kids stand in a circle to start off and sit down when they have had their turn.

//Ella Kazoo will not brush her hair// by Lee Fox and Cathy Wilcox. Make amazing woolly hair for a picture of Ella. Google author to get some related activities.

//Where is the green sheep?// Make woolly cotton ball sheep pictures. Make a class book 'Here is the car sheep' or 'star sheep' etc. Use for position concepts - class book - Where is the green sheep? - children draw it where they want in a picture with written sentence underneath 'it is on top of the slide'. Can laminate a green sheep and have children use it around the room 'it is under the chair', 'next to the pencil'.

//Panda bear, panda bear what do you see?// A follow on book from Brown bear, uses endangered animals instead. Can make a match the picture to the words activity.

//Waddle, giggle, gargle// by Pam Allen. Story about a magpie with great concepts about neighbourhood, family and colours. Make a magpie scarer as a construction activity.

//Rainbow fish// by Marcus Pfister. For friendship concepts and being unique. Give each child half a plate to decorate with a picture of them and a friend. Use as a scale in a large display of the rainbow fish.

//Mr. Happy. // Use a toy for role play //-// Mr. Happy is walking, jumping etc. - develops vocab. On a page stick on a yellow circle for kids to turn into a Mr. Happy then complete the sentence 'Mr. Happy is .......(where?) to develop concepts'

//Mr. Tongue's house (from Soundwave).// teaches about tongue placement and pronunciation.

//There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.// Apron with an old lady painted on with animals to velcro on.  //[|Mrs. Wishy Washy]// by Joy Cowley. A silly woman who washes her dirty farm animals.

//[|Dan the Flying Man]// by Joy Cowley. Lovely repetitive rhyme.

//[|Dan the Flying Man Comes to our Town]// by Joy Cowley  //Nursery Rhymes and Fairytales.// look for IWB animated versions for really engaging kids. [|3 little pigs][|Goldilocks]

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