Collected Resources

1. Enjoy sharing Dear Santa and Harvey Slumfenburger’s Christmas Present.
2. Watch and read The Christmas Present on screen. Is this story like Dear Santa? How? Is the boy’s choice of present a good one?
3. Re-watch The Christmas Present. Join in with the repeated phrases. Why aren’t the various suggestions quite right? Do they make us laugh?
4. Continue to share Christmas/winter festival stories and information books.

Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: The Reindeer Hokey Cokey (see resources)
Introduce on Monday (send a copy home). Enjoy during the week with actions and reindeer hats!

1. What can you see in winter?
2. Winter senses
3. Winter page
4. More winter pages

1. Winter signs
2. Extending vocabulary
3. Writing captions
4. Ice investigation

1. Winter den role play
2. Snowflakes and icicles
3. Snowman maths
4. Icy water

1. Share and enjoy The Bear’s Winter House, looking at illustrations. What made the other animals unhappy? Ask children to spot the signs of winter.
2. Share book & discuss how bear built his winter house. Children mime and say each step, ‘First, collect branches and logs. Next, scrape up soft moss. Then, hammer the logs into…’ etc.
3. Share book discussing how the bear felt about the behaviour of his guests. Did they notice that bear was not happy? What rules would have helped them behave better?
4. Introduce Thinking about the Seasons: Winter, explaining that this is an information book which we can use to find out facts about winter. Use the question boxes to prompt discussion.
5. Reread Thinking about the Seasons: Winter. Focus on animal adaptation, ‘migration’ and ‘hibernation’

Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: I Made a Little Snowball and Here We Go Round (see resources)
Introduce on Monday (send a copy home). Rehearse and chant during week, waiting to go to lunch, on carpet, for fun! Develop performance and add actions.

1. The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark
2. Sleepover instructions
3. Shared instruction writing
4. In the dark