You can use The Christmas Wish ebook on your whiteboard, iPad or tablet computer.
Our assembly closing thought helps us look at the different aspects of snow.
Our downloadable snow fact cards will help start children off on their voyage of discovery.
Our downloadable snow fact card templates make great class displays and are perfect for children to use when presenting their findings to the class.
Also available in as completed fact cards, image only and text only.
Our downloadable snow fact cards are ready for children to add their own researched facts.
Also available with text and images, text only and as a blank printable template.
Use this resource for highlighting geographical language. For printing or using on your whiteboard.
Let the children demonstrate how well they’ve understood The Christmas Wish with these comprehension questions.
This handy grid will help with map-making exercises.
This handy reference will help with map-making exercises.
Use this table to work out how much snow has fallen at a given time.
Cut out the sentences and arrange the main events of The Christmas Wish in the correct order.
Take a look at the techniques that Clare Bevan used when writing The Christmas Wish.
Use this sheet to help children get to grips with sequencing in maths.
Our downloadable snow fact cards are ready for children to add their own illustrations. Print out or use on tablet computers.
Also available with text and images, image only and as a blank printable template.
Help children plan and write their own versions of The Christmas Wish using these storyboarding templates or get them to map the story following a reading or storytelling.
Print-friendly The Christmas Wish: Poems and raps perfect hand-outs for learning off by heart.
Let children's imaginations run riot with this activity that's perfect for discussing where ideas come from.
Give the children time to think about what their Christmas wish would be.
Learn all about the artist, Judy Joel, and her painting Preparations for Christmas.
A perfect snowy game for reinforcing concepts of shape and size while exercising a bit of creativity along the way.
A perfect snowy game for reinforcing concepts of shape and size while exercising a bit of creativity along the way.
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A step-by-step guide to using Scratch.
Our ‘Storytelling prompts’ for The Christmas wish are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons. These prompts come without text and keywords.
Our ‘Storytelling prompts’ for The Christmas Wish are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons. These prompts come with keywords.
Our ‘Storytelling prompts’ for The Christmas Wish are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons. These prompts come with keyword phrases from the story.
Use the templates provided to create a board game based on the story of The Christmas Wish.
The ‘Story sounds PDF slideshow’ includes some of the sounds that might feature in a stage show of The Christmas Wish.
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‘Be quiet!’ said Badger. ‘Keep it down!’ grumbled Hedgehog. ‘Stop banging!’ pleaded Owl. Poor Rabbit, it seemed that no-one appreciated his drumming. But when trouble
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Use these words from the story to practise the tricky spellings from A Thumping Great Rabbit.
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Our closing thought helps us think about how noise affects us and lets us consider where we can go to escape from the hustle and
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Use these word cards to give children inspiration for their woodland writing.
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Use the map on your whiteboard to help children visualise the key events in A Thumping Great Rabbit.
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Learn about children's book illustrator Emma Chichester Clark and find exciting ways to use traditional tales to look at sentence construction.
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Poems for learning by heart, poems for performance but, best of all, poems to inspire.
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Use this planner as a scaffold to help create your own story using the same structure as A Thumping Great Rabbit.
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In some cultures foxes are often depicted as symbols of deceit and cunning. Why do the children think that foxes are thought of in this way?
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Use our editable playscript in drama activities or for a full-scale production.
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Use these planning resource sheets to help keep your class’s film productions on track.
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Cut out the caterpillar cards and place a piece of double-sided sticky tape across each caterpillar. Ask the children to sticky tiny samples of woodland
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For centuries people have been using woodland plants to decorate their homes at Christmas time. Find out why with this resource that accompanies our ‘Deck the
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Use The Christmas Elf as a festive story starter or see how many woodland creatures children can spy in this adorable poster (©StoryWorld – illustrated by Tomislav Tomic.).
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Arm your class with magnifying glasses, notebooks, cameras and viewing jars and head out and about with these sheets to find out if your local
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Choose a tree, head out with pencils, crayons and a measuring tape and fill in the boxes to create a record of it.
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Reward your Early Years and KS1 storytellers with this A Thumping Great Rabbit themed certificate.
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Our downloadable woodland animal fact cards teach us about foxes, hedgehogs, rabbits and deers and will help start children off on their voyage of discovery
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Our downloadable woodland animal fact card templates make great class displays and are perfect for children to use when presenting their findings to the class.
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Our woodland animal fact cards are ready for children to add their own pictures of four of our favourite characters from A Thumping Great Rabbit.
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Our woodland animal fact cards are ready for children to add their own facts for four of our favourite characters from A Thumping Great Rabbit.
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Bel Deering takes us through some useful minibeast basics – very useful for when you are out and about on your bug hunt.
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Our image-only ‘Storytelling prompts’ for A thumping great rabbit are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons.
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Our ‘Storytelling prompts’ with keyword phrases are the perfect accompaniment to your A Thumping Great Rabbit storytelling lessons.
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Our keyword ‘Storytelling prompts’ for A thumping great rabbit are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons.
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Give your local trees a clean bill of health with these official-looking, class-issued 'Clean bill of health' certificates.
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Use these data sheets with the woodland animal shapes resource.
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Use these outlines of the woodland animal characters in A Thumping Great Rabbit to work out water rationing.
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Amadeus’s search for his father has taken him from chip shops to Sherwood Forest and now to infinity and beyond. Is he really going to
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