The Great Pet Sale

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Look after the newly arrived class pet, listen to a vet, discuss how vets help animals, role-play being a vet, weigh pets, measure out ‘medicine’ and bandage injuries. Browse through our brilliant range of activities, worksheets and roleplaying resources that all support your teaching on the brilliant children's book The Great Pet Sale. If you are looking for more pet-related resources, you might also be interested in our Year 1 Science scheme, Pets and Gardens. He follows the boy around as he looks at the other animals and comes up with reasons why the boy wouldn't want them as a pet and why he would be an excellent pet.

The Great Pet Sale - animals and counting money read aloud The Great Pet Sale - animals and counting money read aloud

Look at pictures of pets in the past and compare with pictures of pets in the present, make pet portraits, collage of pets from the past, make a lead and tag for soft pet, listen and dance to old music. From counting sheets, Pictogram Activities, Role Playing Pack and more to help make your lessons engaging and exciting for young learners. In my experience, if you contact your local Pets At Home branch, visits can be organised with your children/class and someone will be available to talk to the children. Represent ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role-play and stories. Please be aware that, for copyright purposes, we are unable to provide the full text for this scheme of work.Mick Inkpen’s The Great Pet Sale (Hodder Children’s Books, ISBN 0-340-70381-4) is one of my favourite children’s stories. Story Books < Story Titles T-V The Great Pet Sale - Mick Inkpen The Disgusting Sandwich - Gareth Edwards The Proudest Blue - Ibtihaj Muhammad and S. I like to use squeeze scissors like these ones from Easi-Grip as once they have developed their hand strength they can move onto regular scissors. A detailed plan, an engaging set of slides for the teaching input, and differentiated, printable resources are all included in this The Great Pet Sale lesson pack.

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In the alternative suggested activity, children are challenged to put themselves in the rat's shoes and improve a given recount plan of its day. Amanda loves to count everything, but not until she has an amazing dream does she finally realize that being able to multiply will help her count things faster. The clever use of counting currency throughout the story provides a strong through line and the numbers, printed in large, bold print, pop out on the page. I bought this book years ago for my eldest son when he was about 6 years old, he is now almost 19 and going off to uni.Things beginning with P are 5 cents each – penguin, puffin, platypus – but the rat tells the boy that R is much better than P, “R for Ratty! With nursery I tend to use 1 pence coins as each penny is worth one, which makes it much easier to count. Our resources above are all very versatile giving you a range to pick from that would fit perfectly for your English or Maths lessons, so you can carry on the theme of the Great Pet Sale all day long! Together as a class you will then read the book, and over the next two lessons, children will show their understanding by retelling the story and answering comprehension questions.

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Blocks: Blocks center provides opportunities for students to build MANY math concepts and skills including spatial reasoning, counting, symmetry, and patterns.I believe this book was originally published in the UK and in that edition the boy bought the pets with pounds and pence. Show sensitivity to others’ needs and feelings, and form positive relationships with adults and other children. Discuss exotic pets, make posters, paper chain snakes, playdough snakes, and junk model exotic habitats. Together, you will identify and discuss the features that the children need to use in their own writing, including time conjunctions, personal pronouns and past tense verbs. There is so much to talk about on each page with children of all ages, and the personality of the little rat is wonderful.

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This half term in school our topic will be 'Winter, materials, then it will move onto the Chinese New Year. The video above is a great way to introduce the story to children and resources are available above to help support this story.We have a variety of resources that support your English and Maths lessons, a great way to mix up your lesson plans and try something new!