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What The Ladybird Heard

Today I read the story ‘What the ladybird heard‘ to the children. Jack asked me to get out the story sack for them to play with.

I laid the story sack out on the tuff tray for them to re tell the story themselves. We had the farmer, two robbers, the policemen, the duck, dog, hen, cow, two cats who went purr and meow and of course the Ladybird who never said a word.

All the children joined in, they used rich language from the story such as ‘ the ladybird never said a word” and “the cow said moo” and “the dog said woof”

Jack and Lottie helped each other count the wooden rounds and guess the bug on them.

Alba realised we didn’t have a pond that Lanky Len fell into. When Tracie went off to find something to use as a pond the younger children decided to tip all the shredded paper from the hen’s nests’ all over the floor.

They had such fun, Ben loved throwing it up in the air and letting it fall all over him. Holly joined in and helped Ben make even more mess.

Everyone helped to hoover it all up and put everything back on the tray.

Think we will extend the story by having a fact finding tray activity next week.

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That’s Not My Monster! Story Sack

Today’s story-time was chosen by Sophie and she wanted the story ‘That’s Not My Monster!’

Sophie and Georgia

Two children decided to join Sophie and take a role as a Monster using the stick puppets. Sophie chose a stripy, blue and purple Monster with five legs and two funny arms.

Georgia chose a funny-nosed and pink-horned Monster who she named ‘frog’ because he was green. Georgia recognised that hers was the Monster on the front of the book.

Counting the stripes, legs, spikes and arms

Sophie decided as Georgia had named hers, she wanted to give hers a name too! The striped Monster became named ‘Days Monster’ we have no idea why 🤣

Both girls loved the knitted baby monsters out of the story sack and played with them for ages. They even used them within their role play after the story.

Charlie

Charlie wanted to listen to the story and turn the pages, even when we didn’t need him too! At least he joined in!

When Sophie asked Charlie where the Monster eyes were, he pointed to them. Georgia asked him to point out the ears and said they are really fluffy!

We have started selling our bespoke story sacks on our online store, check it out!

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Harry And The Dinosaurs Story Sack

The children all enjoyed our ‘Harry and The Dinosaurs’ themed story sack today.

Alfie asked Tracie to read the story, which made Martha want to draw a dinosaur.

Everyone ended up wanting to join in the activity so Tracie got out the story sack with all the card dinosaur printables in so everyone could choose which one they wanted to do. Our story sack with activities is available to buy on our Etsy Shop along with lots of other story sacks for your children to learn and grow.

Poppy asked if Tracie could read the story while they coloured the fabulous pictures.

Story time

At the back of the book it showed the different types of dinosaurs and how to say all the tricky names. Do-you-think-he-saw-us made everyone laugh except Poppy who thought Tracie was silly 😝

After the activity Martha and Poppy decided to go online to find out more information about dinosaurs.

You can buy this story sack and other similar story sacks for your children to play with and grow by clicking this link to our Etsy Shop.