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    The document provides home learning activities related to the story "The Gruffalo" for the areas of physical development, communication and language, literacy, understanding the world, mathematics, expressive arts and design, and personal social and emotional development. Activities include making finger puppets, retelling the story, drawing characters, playing memory and guessing games, learning about woodland animals, making shapes and masks, singing songs, asking questions, and discussing feelings.

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    The document provides home learning activities related to the story "The Gruffalo" for the areas of physical development, communication and language, literacy, understanding the world, mathematics, expressive arts and design, and personal social and emotional development. Activities include making finger puppets, retelling the story, drawing characters, playing memory and guessing games, learning about woodland animals, making shapes and masks, singing songs, asking questions, and discussing feelings.

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    Week 1 The Gruffalo Activity Plan Nursery Home Learning Summer Term

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    Lakshmi Ganapathy
    The document provides home learning activities related to the story "The Gruffalo" for the areas of physical development, communication and language, literacy, understanding the world, mathematics, expressive arts and design, and personal social and emotional development. Activities include making finger puppets, retelling the story, drawing characters, playing memory and guessing games, learning about woodland animals, making shapes and masks, singing songs, asking questions, and discussing feelings.

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    Physical Development (PD) Communication and Language (CL) Literacy (L)

    • Cut out the characters from the Gruffalo story to • After reading and watching The Gruffalo story Read and watch The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
    make finger puppets (see pictures attached). can you use the stick puppets to retell the story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8sUPpPc8Ws
    • Pretend to be the different animals in the story to a member of your family. Remember to use
    and move in different ways eg. flap your arms like the repeated words and phrases in the story. BBC iplayer
    an owl, slither along the floor like a snake. • Play the ‘What’s Missing Gruffalo’ memory https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pk64x
    • Complete a woodland animal pencil control sheet game using your finger puppets (see • Can you answer the questions about the story ?
    (see different sheets attached). Remember to use instructions attached). • Play ‘Gruffalo I spy’ with a member of your family.
    the correct pincer grip (crocodile mouth). • Draw or paint a picture of the Gruffalo adding Choose a character from the story. Guess the
    • Cut out a spiral snake (sheet attached). his different features ie. orange eyes, black character by listening to the initial sound eg. I spy
    • Go on a Gruffalo Hunt. Ask a member of your tongue, purple prickles all down his back (see with my little eye an animal beginning with mmmm.
    family to hide the Gruffalo characters around your sheet attached).
    home for you to find.
    Burlish Park Primary Nursery Mathematics (M)
    Understanding the World (UW)
    • Ask a grown up to help you to cut out some 2D
    Home Learning Activities Summer Term Week 1
    • What woodland animals can you recall from the shapes from paper. Tell them what the
    story ? Where do the different animals live ? different shapes are called. Tell them about the
    What might they eat ? shapes eg. how many sides do they have, how
    • Find out what other animals live in woodlands. many corners ? Are they straight or curved
    • Play the animal footprints matching game (see Questions sides ? (see the shape information attached).
    sheets attached). Use these shapes to create a character from
    • Can you list the animals that the mouse meets in
    • Go onto the official Gruffalo website the Gruffalo story (see the examples attached).
    the story ? Count how many of each different shape you
    https://www.gruffalo.com
    Try some of the fun games you can download. • Where does the story take place ? have used.
    • How does the mouse feel when he meets the fox, • Play Gruffalo sudoku (see attached sheet).
    Expressive Art and Design (EAD) owl and snake ? why ? • Make Gruffalo crumble with an adult. Weigh
    • Make the different animals from the Gruffalo • What does the Gruffalo look like ? the ingredients carefully using scales (see
    story using playdough (see recipe for playdough • How does the mouse feel when he meets the recipe attached).
    attached). Gruffalo ?
    • Make a Gruffalo mask (see attached sheet). Can • Are the fox, owl and snake really afraid of the Personal Social and Emotional Development (PSED)
    you move like the Gruffalo ? Make your most mouse ?
    • Is the Gruffalo really mean and scary ? • Talk about how the mouse feels during
    ferocious Gruffalo sound.
    • Who is the author of The Gruffalo. Can you find different events in the story (see questions)
    • Learn to sing ‘The Gruffalo might like’ song (see
    words attached). out any other books that she has written ?

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