What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday

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Since giving up being a business analyst when juggling travel, work and kids proved too complicated, she founded KiddyCharts so she could be with her kids, and use those grey cells at the same time. It gives 51%+ profits to Reverence for Life, who fund a number of important initiatives in Africa, including bringing running water and basic equipment to a school in Tanzania. Next up connect the two wings using a split pin. Hold the two wings together first to make sure they connect properly and then push the split pin through at the top – I pushed mine into a lump of playdough to make it easier and safer. If you want more activities for your little ones visit World Inside a Book Discover Children’s Story Centre. Try to find where different farms are in your local area. What crops do they grow? What animals do they look after?

Create a simple model of the farm and use some programmable robots (e.g. roamer, remote control vehicles) to move around it. Could you decorate the roamer so that it looks like the ladybird? Write a character profile about Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len? what kind of people are they? Where do they live? When your paper plates are dry cut the end off the red paper plate and then cut it in half to make your ladybirds wings.

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Identify the rhyming words used throughout the book. Can you make your own rhyming dictionary, adding other rhyming words for the ones found? At the end of this post I’ll be giving you some ideas on how you could modify this craft for different ages but I’m going to start by giving you the instructions for making this What The Ladybird Heard craft as a bit of a literacy activity too. If the pin won’t go through easily you could make the hole first with scissors and then push the split pin through.

Having a child in year two and another in nursery I know that while they both love this book what they are able to achieve are quite different – after all my four year old hasn’t learnt to write yet! I’ve found that when I paint paper plates I tend to get much better coverage when I paint with my fingers rather than a paintbrush though as a parent I totally understand if you don’t pass that tip on!Gather lots of leaves and try to arrange them to make a picture. Look at the work of Andy Goldsworthy to find more examples of how nature can be used to make art. Use these as inspiration to make your own. Think about what stealing means and why it is wrong. How would you feel if someone stole from you? What happens to people who steal things from others? Look at the pictures of the farm at the start and end of the book. Can you describe how they are different? Think about the different sounds that animals make. How do we write these (e.g. miaow, purr)? Can you think of any other examples of onomatopoeia? Are there any other examples in the story? You can find out more about the book and buy a copy here now– I can confirm that it’s already become a firm favourite with my kids!

Look at the adjectives that are used to describe each animal. How many other adjectives can you think of to describe them? Use the animal posters (see Resources below) and write adjectives on them.We shared the room on the broom activitiesnot so long ago, and we do hope you had a chance to print them out. There are also these printable sharing a shell activities we know your little ones will love in addition to the ones we are sharing today. To maximize the learning fun, why not prepare these Gruffalo food ideas, you’ll find quite a few delicious ideas. With a whole host of noisy zoo-animal characters to meet and even a cameo from the Queen, What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday, from stellar picture book partnership Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, is a sure-fire hit. Enjoy all the stories from Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks: Sharing a Shell, The Princess and the Wizard, The Rhyming Rabbit, The Singing Mermaid, Sugarlump and the Unicorn, Princess Mirror-Belle and the Dragon Pox, What the Ladybird Heard, What the Ladybird Heard Next and What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday.