Active Learning
English Reception/Year 1 Summer Stories on a Theme
Colours and Feelings
Teach the children, then some may enjoy Exploring and Playing while you lead Group Learning.
Colourful Feelings (suggested as 5 days)
Group Learning
Exploring and Playing
- A colour monster feast
- Worry monster jumper designs
- Colour mixing
- Make a colour monster
You Will Need
Essential Text
The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas
Colour Me Happy, Colour Me Sad by Agnes Green
Animal Feelings (suggested as 5 days)
Active Learning
Group Learning
Exploring and Playing
- Animal small world (in sand)
- Animal emotions
- A bee's eye view
- Cat dancing!
You Will Need
Essential Text
They All Saw a Cat by Brendan Wenzel
Hamilton Group Reader
Just Suppose by Ruth Merttens
Group Readers
Just Suppose
This story uses repetition and humour to create a text in which imagination runs riot and surreal situations, of the sort which children particularly like, abound. As they are just starting reading, this highly accessible text is as much fun for children as many with more complex but less creative language.
Finding Feelings (suggested as 5 days)
Active Learning
Group Learning
Exploring and Playing
- Colourfully clothed creatures
- Colour sorting
- Colourful construction
- Animal feeling pairs
You Will Need
Essential Texts
What Colour are your Knickers by Sam Lloyd
The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas