Fiction Books

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Please email me with your own suggestions. Try to include authors and teaching suggestions/description.

jonboarduk@gmail.com

Many of the stories are available on Youtube.

Some useful story suggestions here with suggested activities too... from kenttrustweb

Plenty more detailed good quality ideas on this site from The Convent of the Sacred Heart

Sound

• The Remarkable Farkle McBride

• Peace at Last by Jill Murphy - http://www.simplestories.net/Simple_Stories/Videos_2.html

• Mr Brown can moo! Can you? by Dr Seuss - A rhyming story full of silly sounds that Mr Brown can make.

• Too Much Noise by Ann McGovern - Peter's house is too noisy. What can he do? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb4vr3rG0Zk

• What's That Noise, Little Mouse? by Stephanie Stansbie - Follow Little Mouse and his blanket as he runs from room to room trying to escape the terrifying night-time noises.

Reversible and Irreversible Changes

• • Pancakes, Pancakes! by Eric Carle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ss_4XQKgCg

Space

• • Papa, please get a moon for me.

• Is a blue whale the biggest thing there is? by Robert E Wells - The best book on space ever! Non-fiction but a very readable format.

• Oscar and the Moth by Geoff Waring - In which the moth teaches Oscar that the sun only appears to move across the sky. Actually it is the Earth spinning.

Forces

• • That Magnetic Dog

  • The Enormous Turnip

  • How the Elephant got it’s trunk – Roald Dahl

Light

• Chickens can't see in the dark by Kristyna Litten. Can carrots help the chickens to see in the dark? Simon Pegg reads it here.

• The Owl who was afraid of the dark by Jill Tomlinson

• Can’t You Sleep Little Bear? by Martin Waddell and Barbara Frith. This story covers being afriad of the dark and using light sources. Watch it on the second half of this video or view the signed reading here

• Mog in the Dark by Judith Kerr

• The Man Who Sold His Shadow by Peter Schlemiel

There are more stories about shadows at these websites

http://www.stuartstories.com/stories/boyandshadow.html

http://www.bygosh.com/Features/072000/shadow.htm

Plants

• Welcome to the greenhouse by Jane Yolen (Exotic animals)

• Jack and the Beanstalk - Traditional

Animals

• Owl Babies

• Panda Bear, Panda Bear, what do you see? by Eric Carle and Bill Martin Jr. (Endangered species)

• The Bad Tempered Ladybird by Eric Carle - (Food chains, animal diets)

Habitats

• • Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzl9IyeMWto

• The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson (All the animals live in the same habitat but in a different home)

Human Body

• • Funnybones by Janet and Allan Ahlberg

Healthy Eating

• I will not ever never eat a tomato by Lauren Child (Can Charlie get Lola to eat healthy food?)

• The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4HI7q38VmQ

Materials

• The Smartest Giant in Town - Julia Donaldson

• The 3 Little Pigs - Traditional

  • The Slimy Book - Babette Cole