PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE ONLY SENDING STORYPROPS AND RELATED GAMES BY POST, PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THE ONLINE MATERIALS WHICH YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IMMEDIATELY.
HOW TO ORDER MATERIALS FROM US
The project never been profit making, and we will no longer be charging for materials that we are not yet able to put on the web (we are working on putting everything on soon including the stories materials). In the meantime we are prepared to send you up to five 'bypost' activities for free. In return please ask us to run workshops for your school and/or send us any activitities that you have produced and want to share.
LIST OF ACTIVITIES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE BY POST.
STORYPROPSPLUS games etc. around favourite stories. (Foundation and KS1)
Many of the strategies in the project that have been devised to improve access to books at junior and secondary level, started out as STORYPROPS. These have been in nursery and infant classrooms for a long time. Teachers have asked us to stock more, and have sent in some excellent games, and other activities around, between, over and under favourite stories. They will provide legitimate and motivating activities for literacy and numeracy hours. We have also been running a series of workshops to produce more activities, plus Saturday workshops to make up activities already developed and share ideas on early years work. An increasing number of schools are making a favourite story the centre of their curriculum planning, so many of the games are designed to teach maths and science. We hope this collection will inspire children to read their favourite stories to each other, and their parents. Many of the games can of course be played in children's first languages. In some cases bilingual parents helped with their development. The games are then sent home with tapes of the story told in first language.
Unfortunately we cannot reproduce the solider props, but we have included suggestions. Some stories (e.g. TITCH) work extremely well just as props, so teachers are tempted to move on from laminated coloured card to `real` flower pots and pottery musical instruments; others such as PEACE AT LAST are better suited to games.
Please send in your props, games and activities to add to the list.
BAD TEMPERED LADYBIRD (Eric Carle) Lotto, matching pairs and a track game with a lot of work on telling the time. (B)
BILL`S NEW FROCK (Anne Fine) A series of activities to access a junior story that looks at gender roles. (G)
BURGLAR BILL (Janet and Allan Ahlberg) Activity, very moral, to get all the stolen items back to the right places. An Asking Questions activity that parents can do, PLUS new science work on all the containers in the book. (B)
THE DOORBELL RANG (Pat Hutchins) A very simple activity that produces a lot of talk, and lots of maths work. (A)
EACH PEACH PEAR PLUM (Janet and Allan Ahlberg) Characters and rhymes for matching lotto plus collecting fruit track game. (C)
HAVE YOU SEEN THE CROCODILE? (Colin West) Pairs, matching and a track game. We have found this series to be excellent material. (B) Special offer, not to be missed, on complete Colin West collection. Only for £8.00 all four activities!!!
HELLO, GREAT BIG BULLFROG (Colin West) Turn taking and questioning games. (C)
HOW DO I PUT IT ON (Shigeo Watanebe) Activities to get the right clothes on the right bit of the bear. (B)
JIM AND THE BEANSTALK (Raymond Briggs) Up and down the stalk with specs, teeth and good gold etc. (C)
THE LION THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE (C.S. Lewis) Access to the book plus a writing activity on journeys via magic routes (down the plug hole etc) to other worlds.
MEGS AND MOGS (Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski) Dressing games, spell games and dominoes. Lots of maths work.
MISS BRICK, THE BUILDER`S BABY (Allan Ahlberg and Colin McNaughton) Maths work around construction and demolition.
MIXED UP CHAMELEON (Eric Carle) Games to teach colours and maths at the same time.
MR CREEP THE CROOK - NEW!
NOT ME SAID THE MONKEY (Colin West) Matching pairs, Lotto and a `Who keeps doing that ` track game.
ON THE WAY HOME (Jill Murphy) A blockbuster collection of activities on a book around which it is possible to plan an entire terms "NC"
ONE SNOWY NIGHT (Nick Butterworth) Activity to discover the sleeping places of the animals.
PARDON SAID THE GIRAFFE (Colin West) This time we have come up with an ingenious Connect 3 activity involving frogs, coordinates and giraffes.
PATCHWORK CAT (Nicola Bayley and William Mayne) Another coordinates activity where the matrix is a patchwork quilt. Plus a matching activity to access a tricky text.
PEACE AT LAST (Jill Murphy) Matching pairs, lotto, dominoes and a track game where your bear has to get to sleep.
THE SHOPPING BASKET (John Burningham) We found plenty of enjoyable maths activity here with the collecting and discarding of appropriate shopping.
THROUGH MY WINDOW (Tony Bradman and Eileen Browne) A very good story to tell through a cardboard cut out window, and likely to produce interesting local variations. We are hoping to include other books by these authors in the lists.
TITCH (Pat Hutchins) Perfect storyprop material, and we`ve encouraged you to construct your own three dimensional plant.
VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR (Eric Carle) Mainly maths games involving fruit of different colours and numbers.