Jamboree Storytime Activity Guide B for Teachers and Parents ...

Session 1Level B AB pages 5, 6 / I Looked Through my Window AB pages 3, 4Game (5 mins)Guess the card• Use the flashcards to teach the key words bed and book. Use the bear puppetand a ball to teach bear and ball. Emphasise the B sound each time.• Play Guess the card game. Divide the children into small teams of four or splitthe class into team 1 and team 2. Hold the flashcards or objects so that thechildren can’t see them. Choose one (don’t show it to the children) and start tosay the word but stick at the B-b-b…?. The child who guesses which you havechosen and says the word e.g. bear can hold the card or object. The team withthe most cards or objects wins.• Use this activity for any other vocabulary and flashcards that begin with B andwhich are familiar to the class e.g. box. These words should also be familiar tothe children but do not overload them with too many words!Big Book time(10 mins)Activity (5 mins)Level B AB p.5I Looked Through myWindow AB p.3Optional extensionactivity (15 mins)Pages 2–3 (followed by whole book)• Using pages 2 and 3, teach or revise bed, window, chair, star, picture, toy box,shoes.• Explain that you are not going to read the story yet but that the bear puppetis going to show the class the pictures. Explain that the children should speakonly English to the bear puppet. If anyone can remember the English word forsomething they can see on the page, they can put up their hand and say theword. Let the children watch as you turn the pages. They can tell the puppet todo this by saying Turn the page! Turn the page! Try not to say anything. Listencarefully to which words the children know and which children remember them.Spot the difference• Give each child their Activity Book open at Level B AB page 5 / I LookedThrough my Window page 3. Explain to the children that they have to find andcircle the five differences between the two pictures. They can do this in pairs.Make a windowI Looked Through my Window2• Give each child a piece of rectangular card, with a rectangle already cut fromit.• The children will also need two strips of card to stick to the frame using glueor Sellotape (to represent the cross bars of the window). They now have thewindow frame. On the rectangle of card that was cut out from the centre, thechildren can draw a picture. Let the children look in the book to copy oneof the animals or the little girl, a star or anything from their previous Englishbooks e.g. a duck, a square etc.• When they have coloured their pictures, they can place the window frame overtheir picture and glue or Sellotape it into place.• Give each child two thin strips of the same fabric, crepe paper or colouredpaper, which they can glue on either side to represent curtains. A folded stripalong the top can be added as a pelmet.