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Nursery People Who Help Us Story Stones

Twelve story stones with helpers and their vehicles for children’s own stories. • Teacher guide with Development Matters links. • 12 cut-out story stones. Linked to Development Matters for three and four-year-olds. Print-ready PDF.

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People Who Help Us Story Stones: make up your own stories. Twelve story stones with helpers and their vehicles, including a doctor, a firefighter, a police officer, a postal worker and a fire engine. Children pick stones and tell their own stories about people who help us. Cut them out as cards or stick them onto real pebbles. What’s included: • Teacher guide with Development Matters links. • 12 cut-out story stones. Ideas for using it: • Pick three: Pick a helper, a vehicle and a problem. Tell a story. • Pass it on: Each child adds one sentence. • Who can help? A cat is stuck. Who do we need? • Small world: Use the stones with toy vehicles. Linked to Development Matters (three and four-year-olds): • Engage in extended conversations about stories, learning new vocabulary. • Use longer sentences of four to six words. • Use a wider range of vocabulary. • Begin to develop complex stories using small world equipment like animal sets, dolls and dolls houses, etc. Supplied as a ready-to-print PDF (A4 landscape). Print, laminate and reuse all year.Read more

People Who Help Us Story Stones: make up your own stories. Twelve story stones with helpers and their vehicles, including a doctor, a firefighter, a police officer, a postal worker and a fire engine. Children pick stones and tell their own stories about people who help us. Cut them out as cards or stick them onto real pebbles. What’s included: • Teacher guide with Development Matters links. • 12 cut-out story stones. Ideas for using it: • Pick three: Pick a helper, a vehicle and a problem. Tell a story. • Pass it on: Each child adds one sentence. • Who can help? A cat is stuck. Who do we need? • Small world: Use the stones with toy vehicles. Linked to Development Matters (three and four-year-olds): • Engage in extended conversations about stories, learning new vocabulary. • Use longer sentences of four to six words. • Use a wider range of vocabulary. • Begin to develop complex stories using small world equipment like animal sets, dolls and dolls houses, etc. Supplied as a ready-to-print PDF (A4 landscape). Print, laminate and reuse all year.

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