Learning in Nursery and at Home
We have been sharing The Gingerbread Man book during our Three Reads sessions, here are some of us retelling the story using our new props.
We also applied our skills to create our own imaginative stories as we explored other familiar characters such as a wolf, little pig and a goat. Here are some ideas you may wish to try as you read your copy of the book together. There is a copy of the story in our lending library if you wish to borrow it.
- New Vocabulary – grazing, sighed, scampered
- Organise resources to support new vocabulary/retell story etc.
- Book Handling skills (front and back cover, spine, blurb etc.)
- Ask children to predict what the story is about from cover, point to the title, read blurb, count the words in the title (Title is made up of words, words are made up of letters)
- Author & Illustrator – discuss
- Point to words, where start reading? (Sweep finger to illustrate)
Our New Rhymes
After chatting with some of the children in the literacy area and asking what they would like to find out more about, our new rhymes for sharing are number 9 It is Spring Time 9 (Frere Jacques) and number 19 You Are My Sunshine.
It Is Spring Time
It is spring time.
It is spring time.
Winter’s gone
Winter’s gone
Soon it will be summer.
Soon it will be summer.
It won’t be long.
It won’t be long.
You Are My Sunshine
You are my sunshine
My only sunshine,
You make me happy
When skies are grey,
You’ll never know just
How much I love you,
So please don’t take
My sunshine away.
Really enjoyed being part of the team that put the new rhyme resources together. Love the idea that the songs and rhymes that I learned as a child are still every bit as educational today as they were years ago. Only wish my kids nursery could have used a resource in this way. Keep up the good work.