Use the characters from Mr Gumpy's Outing to make a listening game.
Key learning intentions
To maintain attention, concentrate, and sit quietly when appropriate To work as part of a group, taking turns and sharing fairly, understanding that there needs to be agreed values and codes of behaviour for groups of people
To use the everyday words to describe position
To begin to use the vocabulary involved in adding and subtracting
Resources
Two identical boats (large drawn ones laminated for durability or large model boats with a clearly defined front and back to the boat and the seats marked inside); two sets of story characters (toy animals or hand drawn - and again laminated for durability); large screen
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