story time – Tracie's Treasures

What The Ladybird Heard

Posted on 14th Mar 2024 by Tracie Dowling

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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Dinosaur World

Posted on 13th Mar 2023 by Tracie Dowling

Today George wanted the Dinosaur’s out to play with. I set up a tray with natural materials for them to build a small world scene.

George and Elsie worked together to build a big big tree house. They counted the wooden trunks as they built it taller and taller.

George said ‘look at this its nearly bigger than me!’ Elsie started counting backwards’5,4,3,2,1 timber’ as she pushed them all down.

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The Giant Came To Town

Posted on 15th Oct 2022 by Tracie Dowling

Today for Jacks birthday we went to the Liverpool Playhouse to watch a production of Julia Donaldson’s ‘The Giant Came To Town’ it was absolutely amazing.

It was Jack’s 1st time at the Theatre and he was so well behaved. He loved sitting on a special box so the seat was raised and wouldn’t keep going up. We shared a drink and popcorn while waiting for the show to start.

Jack laughed, pointed and clapped at the puppets as they told the story.

As the show finished and everyone was bowing, Jack got excited, clapped and waved goodbye.

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That’s Not My Monster! Story Sack

Posted on 30th Jul 202110th Apr 2025 by Tracie Dowling

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

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 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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World Read Aloud Day

Posted on 3rd Feb 20215th Feb 2021 by Tracie Dowling

Today is World Read Aloud Day and we wanted to show you some pictures of us reading and listening to stories. At Tracie’s Treasures, we have lots of different ways we read and have story time. We use iPads, computers, books, magazines, signs and much much more.

We all love having stories read to us and playing with puppets and toys to explore what the story really means and get involved. Tracie likes to take story sacks to the park and read to us using puppets.

Emma loves to use different voices for characters. We also listen to stories from Spotify on our Google Pebble or on story time CDs, theres lots of ways to read and listen to stories. But mostly! We love listening to our mummies and daddies reading to us at bedtime.

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