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Meerkat Mail

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This story was selected as one of the books for the August 2012 - Traveling reads at the Picture-Book Club in the Children's Books Group here at Goodreads. Use Pie Corbett’s Talk for Writing sequence (Imitation- Innovation-Invention), with a final outcome of a mini-leaflet or Wikipedia page. As with the other Emily Gravett books I have read, I found the artwork here charming - her meerkats are adorable, and her lurking jackal suitably sinister - and I also appreciated the innovative design, in which Sunny's postcards are attached to the page, making a "lift-the-flap" experience for readers. Meerkat Mail is a wonderful picture book highlighting, for me, the importance of home and family and how nothing will ever come close no matter how hard you try (bless Sunny!

We discover how different all of his relatives’ lives are through the pop-out postcards from each place he visits. But from the watery world of the Marsh Mongoose to the nocturnal lifestyle of the Malagasy Mongoose, Sunny just doesn’t fit in.So he packs his bags and leaves to visit his mongoose relatives all over Africa to see if he prefers their life-styles. As he endures too much rain, too much dark, and slimy food, he decides that there really is no place like home, and back he goes, grateful for all the annoyances (and comfort) his family provides. This could be expanded further by the children being put into groups based on which scene they selected and creating a drama piece based on the story. Sorry to hear you are disappointed, this pack contains 13 resources and is very popular so is well worth the money and time saved if you were planning and preparing all of it yourself.

Model writing a postcard from Sunny to his family, using the information headings to structure the content. Children who like lift-the-flap books will love lifting the post cards to see what is written on the other side.

Use role-play and games such as ‘Professor Know it All’* to develop the language and sentence constructions of reports. This is a sorry about a meerkat who gets fed up with the hot weather and crowded environment with all the other meerkats so decided to travel around Africa to find somewhere better to live. Chronicling his travels through postcards home, Sunny wanders far and wide, becoming increasingly dissatisfied, until eventually he finds his way to a place where he truly belongs.

Our hero, Sunny the meerkat, lives with his extended family in the Kalahari Desert and he is fed up with two things – the place where he lives and the people (or meerkats) he lives with. I like how the book starts off with a character description/ timeline of how the main character develops. I like how some words have a change of font size, I think this would be good for children when reading aloud so that they can work on their expression when reading aloud. Sunny the Meerkat lives in the Kalahari desert but one day Sunny decides to pack his bags and visit his mongoose cousins.One teacher took a toy Meerkat to her local park and took pictures of him doing various activities (e. Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett is a great animal story to use in EYFS and KS1 when covering a journeys or animals topic.

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