Lucy and Tom at the Seaside

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Sound discrimination: traffic sounds , horns honking , watery sounds , waves crashing , beach sounds , seagull screeching , digging sounds .

Lucy and Tom at the Seaside By Shirley Hughes |The Works

By publishing your document, the content will be optimally indexed by Google via AI and sorted into the right category for over 500 million ePaper readers on YUMPU. Cat invites the listeners to identify where they can hear the sounds? Cat then encourages the children to imagine that it is a beautiful day at the seaside and that they are applying suncream, digging in the sand, making sandcastles and eating ice-cream. Join Lucy and Tom as they discover the seaside. From paddling to picnics, to sandcastles and ice cream - they discover everything the seaside has to offer. Can you learn about sinking and floating? You could test different objects while in the bath to test if they sink or float.

Can you make your own ice lollies or ice-cream. Tinned fruit makes delicious lollies. If you don’t have any lolly moulds just use a plastic cup. Try out the ice-cream recipe below. She also collaborated with her daughter, Clara Vulliamy, on the Dixie O'Day series; which saw Shirley with an illustrator for the first time with Shirley writing the text and Clara creating the illustrations. Shirley Hughes has won the Other Award, the Eleanor Farjeon Award, and the Kate Greenaway Medal for Illustration twice, for Dogger in 1977 and for Ella's Big Chance in 2003. In 2007 Dogger was voted the public's favourite Greenaway winner of all time. She was Highly Commended for the Greenaway Medal for The Lion and the Unicorn in 1998. Shirley received an OBE in 1999 for services to Children's Literature, and a CBE in 2017. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was the first recipient of BookTrust's Lifetime Achievement Award. Younger (and older) children can enjoy making sandhills to jump off or digging holes in the sand – who can dig the deepest? Fill shallow holes with water to create paddling pools. Make sure any deep holes are filled in before you leave so no one falls in! This week at school we are revising writing numbers. Can you have a go at writing some numbers. You could write them on a tray of sand or salt, with chalks or on paper. You could try some of the activities in this seaside maths activity book.

Lucy and Tom at the Seaside by Shirley Hughes | Goodreads

Pro tip: Topics should not be followed slavishly; they need to meet the needs and reflect the interests of the children first and foremost. Practitioners should feel able to dip in and out of the ideas provided, extending and adapting them to suit the children in their settings. 1. Talk to your children about holidays Next time you go to the beach can you build a sandcastle? Can you make some model flags for your sandcastle? This is a wonderful story about Lucy and Tom's trip to the seaside. Now that it can be considered somewhat 'old fashioned', its charm is enhanced even greater. Can you make your own junk model boat? Does it float? Can you add a sail and blow it to make it go? Tom and Pippo on the Beach– Tom has a lovely day at the beach but is upset at the end of the day when he realises he has lost his treasured monkey, Pippo.

With gentle illustrations and easy-to-read text, Lucy and Tom at the Seaside is perfect for summer celebrations. Delighting children for generations, discover this soothing bedtime story.

Lucy and Tom at the Seaside by Shirley Hughes | Waterstones

Help the children to clap with a steady beat. Once they are familiar with the song they could try the traditional game (it works best if adults are Arch and Leader). Shirley began to write and draw her own picture books when her children were young. Her first book - Lucy and Tom's Day - was published in 1960, and she followed it with, among others, Dogger, and the Alfie series. Her books include the wordless picture book Up and Up, collection of rhymes and poems Out and About, and for the very young The Nursery Collection. Sharing a Shell– Follow the story of a hermit crab as he learns about friendship in this Julia Donaldson-Lydia Monks classic.Meet Lucy and Tom, the creations of Shirley Hughes, illustrator extraordinaire, in her reissued story of everyday family life...wonderfully-observed illustrations remind us all of the fun. Independent Bookshop Week Supplement Our first activity would involve talking to the children about their holidays. Many of them will choose to visit the beach as their favourite place, but they will all have different memories and experiences. From paddling to picnics, from sandcastles to beach games - this is the perfect book for summer celebrations. Areas of learning: Communication & language | Personal, social and emotional development | Literacy | Understanding the world

fun with a Seaside topic EYFS- Summer term 3.2, Bundle of fun with a Seaside topic

From the creator of Dogger, Shirley Hughes, this timeless book of seaside fun has every element of a wonderful day at the seaside. Missing number worksheets to fill in the numbers on the sandcastles plus blank versions for you to add your own numbers Lucy has her school things ready. She has a new grey skirt, a pair of brown shoes, a pencil case and a satchel. Tom wishes that he had a satchel too. Shirley Hughes was born in West Kirby, near Liverpool, in 1927, and studied fashion and dress design at Liverpool Art School, before continuing her studies at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford. She started her career as a freelance illustrator in London, illustrating other writers' work, including Noel Streatfeild, Alison Uttley, Ian Seraillier and notably Dorothy Edwards's My Naughty Little Sister series.

She wrote two novels for older children, Hero on a Bicycle, about a 13-year-old Italian boy during the occupation of Florence, and Whistling in the Dark, set during the Liverpool Blitz. Her memoir, A Life Drawing, was published in 2002.