English Reception/Year 1 Autumn Significant Authors

Reimagining the ordinary

Spark imaginations with Not a Stick by Antoinette Portis and Billy’s Bucket by Kes Gray and Garry Parsons. Explore sentence building and punctuation, writing labels and signs.

Not a stick (suggested as 5 days)

Exploring and Playing

  1. Small world
  2. Stick maths
  3. Stick painting
  4. Sticky pictures

You Will Need

Essential texts
Not a Stick by Antoinette Portis