English Reception/Year 1 Autumn Labels and Captions

Families and Me

Read Jill Murphy's Five Minutes' Peace, Mo Willems' Knuffle Bunny and Group Reader Boris and Sid Make a Mess, inspiring children to write a familiar settings story.

My family (suggested as 5 days)

You Will Need

Essential Texts
Five Minutes Peace by Jill Murphy
The Great Big Book of Families by Mary Hoffman and Ros Asquith

Group Readers
Boris and Sid Make a Mess by Ruth Merttens

Optional Texts
Peace at Last by Jill Murphy

Group Readers

Boris and Sid Make a Mess
Boris and Sid Make a Mess, by Ruth Merttens, is a humorous story told in a very familiar setting. The illustrations make children laugh out loud, and the text is easily decodable by beginning readers.