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SAMPLE MATERIAL

Activity bank

Choose one activity from each section to create your own bespoke project lesson.

1 Circle time andWeather routine

• If you have a routine clock, turn the hand to ‘Circle time’ before the start of class.

• Start the class with the Circle time routine you have chosen to do with your class.

2 Language revision

Story time: Let’s make a snowman!

• Retell the story using the CD and storycards or the DVD to help set the project in context. Talk about the cold weather and the fact that Frankie, Tex, Dizzy and Spot are planning on making a snowman at the beginning of the story. Use the story to revise language such as the weather, colours and numbers, as well as the winter clothing vocabulary from the main unit.

Song time: Touch your body!

• Sing the Touch your face song from Unit 1, but replace the facial features with body parts, as follows:

Touch your legs, 1, 2, 3. Stand up. Touch your legs. Copy me!

Touch your arms, 1, 2, 3. Stand up. Touch your arms. Copy me!

Touch your body, 1, 2, 3. Stand up. Touch your body. Copy me!

Touch your head, 1, 2, 3. Stand up. Touch your head. Copy me!

• Encourage children to join in with the words and the actions.

Song time: Five little snowmen

• Sing a variation on One little snowman to practise counting and consolidate the idea of melting using the following lyrics:

Five little snowmen standing in the snow, Each has a hat and orange nose. Out comes the sun, it shines all day, One little snowman melts away.

Four little snowmen standing in the snow, Each has a hat and orange nose. Out comes the sun, it shines all day, One little snowman melts away.

Three little snowmen standing in the snow, Each has a hat and orange nose. Out comes the sun, it shines all day, One little snowman melts away.

Two little snowmen standing in the snow, Each has a hat and orange nose. Out comes the sun, it shines all day, One little snowman melts away.

One little snowman standing on his own, One little snowman all alone. Out comes the sun, it shines all day, One little snowman melts away.

3 Poster time

Let’s make a snowman!

• Cover all of the snowman building scenes (on the left). Say Let’s make a snowman! Elicit the stages of building the snowman in the correct order, encouraging the children to suggest the correct body part each time, before you uncover the relevant scene on the poster.

Guess what?

• Completely cover the main scene of the poster (on the right) with sticky notes. Pick sticky notes to remove at random. The children must guess what is under each note using any English they know. Help them by saying, e.g. Howmany children hats / mittens / boots / jackets / snow angels? Happy or sad? What’s the weather like?

4 Game time

Pin the nose on the snowman

• This is a variation of Pin the tail on the donkey. Make a snowman face with detachable legs, arms, eyes, nose and mouth. The children take it in turns to choose a body part or facial feature and say the word, then cover their eyes and try and stick it onto the correct place on the snowman.

Winter warm-up

• Tell the children that to keep warm in winter, they need to move about as well as wearing warm clothes. Display the project flashcard to remind children of the body parts.

• Call out commands such as Rub your face! Kick your legs! Wave your arms! Move your body! Make a snow angel! Encourage children to move the relevant parts of their body in response.

Dizzy’s project game

• Use your interactive whiteboard to play the Dizzy’s project game. Complete the jigsaw by dragging and dropping the pieces of the jigsaw into the correct place. Once the jigsaw is complete, encourage the class to name the body parts of the snowman, as well as any items of winter clothing that they recognise.

5 Table time

Five little snowmen

• Give a piece of coloured card to each child. Show them how to make a handprint in white paint on the card. Explain that they are going to make this handprint into five little snowmen, each snowman being a different finger.

• When the paint is dry, the children paint legs, arms, eyes, a nose, a mouth and a hat onto each snowman using a cotton bud.

SAMPLE MATERIAL