Monday

Watch/read with your grown up the story of Goldilocks and the three bears.

Retell the story…… What happened?

Explain to your grown up what your favourite part of the story was and why.

Which part of the story did you like the least?

Now can you tell me which picture is the odd one out and why?  Write a sentence remembering your capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.

Tuesday

Today we are going to talk about the pattern of the story.

Fairy tales all have…...

• Once upon a time
• Happily, ever after
• Goodie and a baddie
• And good always wins.

Today we are going to identify the bad character in the story…

Who has not made good choices.

Draw a picture and write a sentence about the character.

Remember to use capital letters, full stops and finger spaces and explain why you think they are a bad character.

Wednesday

Re-cap Can you remember the pattern of a fairy tale story.  Tell your grown up the four things we discussed yesterday.

Today we are going to identify the good character in the story….

Who has made really good choices?

Draw a picture of them and write a sentence about the character.

Remember to use full stops, capital letters and finger spaces and explain why you think this.

Thursday

Today we are going to write a story map for our story.

Please draw in the boxes.

Who it the main character in the story?

What is the setting – Remember this is where the story happens.

What happens first?

What happens next?

What happens last?

First, next and last – Can you remember what these words are called from last week?

(Grown-ups please don’t worry if you do not have a printer, please draw the boxes and write the key words above them)

Friday

Today we are going to retell the story…

Tell your grown up what happened in the story using your story map from yesterday. Try to use the key words we talked about yesterday - first, next and last.

Can you now sequence the story and put the pictures in the correct order?

(Grown-ups, if you do not have a printer, please allow your child to draw the pictures using ours as a guide).