Page 98: 5 books that I have enjoyed exploring so far this year in my EYFS classroom
Reading is SO important! As teacher we do not only need to deliver and provide our children with high quality phonics and early reading interventions so they have the tools themselves to unlock the rest of the curriculum it is also our responsibility to ignite a love of reading, promoting a joy of reading for pleasure. It allows our children to be intellectually challenged, create curiosity and inspire big thinking.
As an EYFS teacher, a non negotiable everyday is high quality story time. Alongside this perfect way to end a busy day, reading is promoting throughout our day - day all day everyday. From our reading corners, to ensuring all provision areas are full of stories to also often using a 'book as a hook' in both our mathematics and communication and language sessions.
This leads me onto introducing today's page.
5 of my tops books that have promoted and deepened learning in my classroom.
1. We are Going on a Bear Hunt - Micheal Rosen
This well known classic is great to strengthen interconnected learning through cross curriculum links. A few ways I enjoy to use this story in my classroom include, role play with the children recreating the walk in different environments, discussion around seasons and prompting correct prepositional language. Such an important and tricky mathematics objective to master for our children!
2. Oi Frog - Kes Grey
This is a rhyming story. Simply the animals must only sit on something that rhymes their name. Sadly for our Frog .. he is going to be sat on by a dog! Our learners love this funny tale (particularly when the parrots sit on carrots) and is fantastic for promoting and encouraging the prediction of rhyme. There is a great puzzle you can get for this as well as many provision activities. We enjoyed role play with logs, mats, carrots alongside frog, dog, cat and parrot masks! Bring the learning to life.
3. I Love Chinese New Year - Eva Wong Nava
This is a new story I found and order to support our Lunar New Year learning and celebrations in February. This is a wonderful story of a young girl sharing her celebrations when here Grandma comes for dinner. Her Na Na shares the story and of the lunar new year, exploring important aspects in terms of why lanterns are red? Alongside a beautiful way of illustrated and sharing the great race. What I really liked what how it was told through a child's lens for children, relating and exploring many family members which was lovely for our all about me revise and revisit! The book ends with some lovely extra 'fun facts' to share with the children.
4. The Stompysauras - Rachel Bright
A fundamental aspect of the EYFS us developing our learners social and emotional skills. This is done through play. Through high quality modelling and adult interactions, using precise positive praise, we are able to teach the children key play and social skills. This sits in hand with emotion regulation. A simple example of this is using our words and taking 3 deep breathes instead of stomping and screaming when someone takes our train! This is where The Stompysaurus comes in. This beautifully illustrated story tells the tale of a frustrated young dinosaur who becomes rather upset and struggles to manage his emotions when his brother takes his toy. The story shares a few of the dinosaurs struggles throughout the day and how Mamasaur supports him by talking and regulating his emotions, sharing apologies and using words.
5. The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
This is a classic again which I am sure many of us seek comfort from our own childhood or sharing with our own children (in or our of school!) This story sharing the journey of an egg to a caterpillar not only supports our lifecycle classroom really but additionally covers key areas and language that we have also focussed upon. Some of this include using prepositional language, time order language, days of the week and categorising healthy vs unhealthy foods.
I have throughly enjoyed sharing and writing this countdown, and to be frankly honest, it was rather difficult to pick just 5! This is most definitely a post I look forward to returning to an extending. Stories are great and there is nothing else to say about from that! Their power is undefinable and they are a fundamental and crucial tool for learning!!
Miss Yeoman
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