Foundation Stage Continued Learning Tuesday 5th May

Good morning FS1 and FS2: click the links to find the video from your class teacher!

FS1: FSC   FSH   FSJ   FSD 

FS2: FSR   FSE   FSK   FSS  FSL   FSM

We have had so much wonderful learning shared from home that we have now created a 'Sharing Our Learning' gallery on the main page so we can keep on adding more!

These are some ideas for learning at home today. A reminder that you don't have to do all (or any) of these today. Maintaining a routine and a connection with school are the most important things! 

This Week Foundation Stage Children are going to become...

For the next two weeks, we are going to be Little Storytellers! Stories are one of the best ways for children to develop their language skills, learning new words, phrases and text structure. We build firm foundations for children to learn a story structure by imitating (retelling a story), innovating (changing some parts of the story) and then inventing (making up your own story now you’re practised using a story structure).

Overview of 'Little Storytellers' for Parents 

Imitate, Innovate, Invent! 

Imitating a story - this means they repeat a story as it was told. You could do this in many ways including simply retelling orally, using their toys to ‘act’ it out, performing it with family members being actors, through using Lego, by drawing a picture to illustrate the different parts of the story. Your child can explore this as they wish, with your encouragement to do lots of talking to practice the storytelling language.

Miss Clare's version of 'The Enormous Turnip'

Miss Pao's Version in Thai:

Watch a LEGO version of The Enormous Turnip: 

A 'Felt' version of the Enormous Turnip:

Innovating...

This means they change one or two things in the story such as changing the characters but keeping the rest of the story the same.

Miss Boe Innovating in Thai:

A Great Innovation of The Enormous Turnip - The Big Carrot

Invent...

Using what they’ve learnt about story structure: characters, setting, event and ending, children will make up their own stories. We will learn more about this next week.

Today, can you imitate and then maybe innovate a story however you like? You might act it out with toys, with Lego, with your family as actors?

Depending on how confident your child is with storytelling your child may choose a different challenge level today:

Challenge One: Innovate The Enormous Turnip

Listen to the Audio Version - The Enormous Turnip:

Thai Version By Miss Gib:

Challenge Two: Innovate any other story you like  from this bank of different traditional tales:

For a huge selection of different stories and resources click the link below!

patana.fireflycloud.asia/foundation-stage/fs-language-development-blog-19-20/little-storytellers-supporting-materials

Challenge Three: Use a different story, not a traditional tale - you might choose from your favourite books at home.

Please choose according to your child’s interests - this might be a story from home, including from a different language or culture. We also use Sign For Learning to help children notice some key words. You can try using these at home too, in English and your own language. You don’t need to use them all: you can just use one or two to teach your child a new word to use in their storytelling. Please see Little Storytellers supporting materials resources page for more signs.

Explanation of Learning in Thai:

Click below for Miss Clare's Video Explanation of 'Sign for Learning':