Our book of the week activities to encourage literacy has been continuing this month, covering topical events such as Black History Month and Autumn.

By using a variety of equipment and resources alongside the books will develop not only their listening skills, concentration and story recall it will develop the 7 Areas of learning:

Communicate & Language (CL)

Physical Development (PD)

Personal Social Emotional Development (PSED)

Literacy (L)

Mathematics (M)

Understand the World (UW)

& Expressive Arts & Design (EAD)

This month’s books have been:

• Handa's Surprise - Eileen Browne.

• Princess Hair by Sharee Miller.

• I Love My Hair by Natasha A Tarpley.

• Whatever Next - Jill Murphy.

• Look Up ! by Nathan Bryan & Dapa Adeola.

• Going on a leaf Hunt by Steve Metzger.     

• The Pumpkin Thief by Alice Hemming & Nicola Slate.

• Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson & Alex Scheffler.

• We're Going on a Pumpkin Hunt by Goldie Hawks & Angie Rozelaar.

• Supertato- Spooky Day by BBC CBeebies.

• The Scarecrows Wedding - by Julia Donaldson & Alex Scheffler.

• We want a Pet by Richard Hamilton and Lindsey Gardiner.

• Little Kitten by Brown Watson.

• Handa's Hen - Eileen Browne.

• Hair Love - by Matthew A Cherry.

• Stickman The Pumpkin Hunt - By Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler.