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

Session 3Level B AB pages 21, 22 / The Monster Pet AB pages 7, 8• Say The monsters are asleep. Point to the sleeping monsters, and mime beingasleep.• Repeat this and encourage the children to say asleep and to mime sleeping.You can point to each monster in turn and say The yellow monster is asleepetc.• Now ask Is the monster pet asleep? Wait for the children’s responses and thenpointing to the picture and the caption, say It’s awake (you can change theword ‘stays’ to ‘is’).Activity (5 mins)Level B AB p.21The Monster Pet AB p.7Activity (10 mins)Activity (5 mins)Level B AB p.22The Monster Pet AB p.8Find my hat• Give each child their Activity Book open at Level B AB page 21 / The MonsterPet AB page 7. The children have to match the monsters to the hats.Blowing bubbles• Point to the monster pet in the Big Book (page 11) and ask the children (intheir first language) what the monster pet is doing. He’s blowing bubbles!• Bring out the shampoo and mix some into a bowl of warm water. Show thechildren the bubbles it makes. Let the children play with the bubbles. They canscoop them up and blow them (but do ask them not to blow near each other’sfaces!) Help the children realise that the shampoo eaten by the monster pet iscausing the bubbles.• If you can, bring in some bubble mix and let the children blow bubbles aswell!Bubbles• Emphasise the sound B at the beginning of bed, bear, boy and bubbles.Encourage the children to practise soft B-B-B sounds, making sure their lipsare pursed together at the start.• Give each child their Activity Book open at Level B AB page 22 / The MonsterPet AB page 8. Encourage the children to draw lots of bubbles on their page.Final activity (5 mins)Audio CD track 5o‘Go to sleep’ song• Play the ‘Go to sleep’ song on the audio CD again (track 5), and let thechildren listen. Encourage them to join in with the words:Go to sleep, monster petGo to sleep, little monster!Go to sleepGo to sleepGo to sleep, monster pet!Home fun• Give each child a copy of PCM 3 (page 90). The children can have fun at homecompleting the word ‘bubbles’ which appears in dotted form on the sheet.(Make sure that each child’s name is on their sheet before they take it home.)The Monster Pet25