ADULT-LED
Retell the story of Mr Gumpy by composing a new version of a favourite song - 'Old MacDonald had a Farm'
Key learning intentions
To make up songs
To link sounds to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet
To use their phonic knowledge to write simple regular words and make phonetically plausible attempts at more complex words
To know that print carries meaning and, in English, is read from left to right and top to bottom
Resources
A copy of Mr Gumpy's Outing (see page 7 for story outline); flipchart, pen, small-world toys or puppets of the farm animals from the story
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