Week 7 Topic

Week 7

The project this week aims to provide opportunities for your child to learn more about famous or significant people. Learning may focus on past or present inventors, explorers or scientists and how they influence society today. 

Make your Favourite Characters-

● Make a puppet of a famous story character. Use a toilet roll and draw, colour and stick other bits of material onto the tube to make your own character puppet. This can be a character from the Gruffalo or a character from another story written by a different famous author.

● Paint your hand and make handprints and decorate to make your very own Gruffalo. 

Can you Name the Famous Characters?

 ● Take part in the quiz -Who Do You Know? You will need help from your grown ups. Have a go at Quiz 1 and Quiz 2. Or, you could also describe famous book characters to your child and they have to guess who it is you’re describing. 

Play Snake ● The Gruffalo features a snake. Click here to play snake - Use the arrows on the keyboard to move the snake around - count how many apples you can collect. Or, play a family game of Snakes and Ladders. 

Create your own Broomstick ● Create your own broomstick like the witch in ‘Room on the Broom’. You could gather up sticks from the garden and tie them on to the end of a large stick using elastic bands, string or garden twine. How could you make improvements to your broom? Encourage your child to act out the story. Take a photograph of your finished broomstick and send it to [email protected]

Visit ‘The Gruffalo’ website

● Listen to the Gruffalo song, learn the ‘Monkey Puzzle’ song in makaton and dance along to the ‘Gruffalo’s Child’ song. There are also some great interactive games in the play and explore area. Colour your own Gruffalo using the paint game, create your own monster on monster maker and much more.