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📖 A IS FOR ACTIVIST by Innosanto Nagara 💪🏻
A is for Activist is an ABC board book written and illustrated for the next generation of progressives: families who want their kids to grow up in a space that is unapologetic about activism, environmental justice, civil rights, LGBTQ rights and everything else that activists believe in and fight for. The alliteration, rhyming and vibrant illustrations make the book exciting for children, while the issues depicted resonate with their parents' values of community, equality and justice. This engaging little book carries huge messages as it inspires hope for the future.

🍎🌳Arts and Crafts: Apple Tree 💚

🌳🍃 Forest School Activity Cards 🎋🌳🏕
This is the first-ever Forest School-themed activity card deck. Beautifully designed and packed with ideas, this handy reference tool created for families, forest school leaders, kids teachers, and anyone else who wants to try forest school, offers 48 games, crafts and skill-building activities to inspire outdoor fun and build a lasting relationship with nature. It complements & 's previous books (Play the Forest School Way and A Year of Forest School), containing activities from those books in a simplified, pocket-sized format.

The deck is divided into four suits; Team Games, Survival Skills, Forest Crafts and Connecting to Nature. From building dens and gathering wild food to making bark masks and playing Hungry Birds, the deck will help you enjoy a magical day, full all the wonder nature can offer. The accompanying booklet explains how to use the deck so that all can feel inspired and motivated to head outside!

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SCIENCE: 🧽Absorbent or Waterproof ☔️
Lion Kids have carried out an experiment to find out if different materials are waterproof or absorbent!
We started by discussing what it means if something is waterproof or absorbent and thinking of examples of materials that hold these properties. They then made predictions about the waterproof properties of paper, plastic and fabric before testing them. They carried out fair tests, recorded their results and then wrote the method. Well done Lion Kids!
Steps:
📌Properties of materials
📌Identifying materials and properties
📌Absorbent and waterproof
📌Absorbing experiment
📌Use of absorbent materials

✍🏻PLANNING A STORY - STORYBOARD 📓
Lion Kids love creating their own stories! Planning and writing a story can be made easier by using a storyboard. The ideas on your storyboard can then be used to draft out a story, which can then be made better (edited) for your final story. This english worksheet will be particularly useful to KS2 children, especially when they are planning a story narrative.

What is a storyboard? A can be used to help you plan a story. It shows what is going to happen in your story. You can tell your story using pictures and writing. Children need to make sure their story has a beginning, middle and end. You can use a story board by either drawing pictures to tell the story, or write sentences. Narration or speech bubbles can also be used.

🗯Explore Nature Poems for Year 1 🗯
🎤Have fun with traditional action rhymes, rounds, songs and nursery rhymes.
🎤Explore verbs and sentence punctuation.
🎤Improvise dramas based on nursery rhymes.
🎤Write your own poem.
See one of my lion kids poem about dark. Studying the books we read is an effective way of teaching the kids in literacy 🥇

📚 THE DARK by LEMONY SNICKET and illustraded by JON KLASSEN ⚫️🔦
Bestselling gives an original, delightful and empowering take on the familiar theme of being scared of the dark.
Laszlo is afraid of the dark. He knows that the dark lives in the same house as him but luckily they don’t usually share the same space in the house. One day, Laszlo goes looking for the dark. It’s a scary journey of discovery. Down in the basement he and the Dark have an interesting conversation; the Dark explains why he is so necessary. It is a great explanation and Laszlo finds he never has to be frightened again. 's illustrations are a perfect match for this outstanding picture book.

Pumpkin Arts and Craft Activity 🎃✂️🖍

🎃PUMPKING COLORING🎃Carving pumpkins may be a traditional Halloween activity, but trading your X-Acto knife for a paintbrush has its benefits: Painting pumpkins is easier and safer for young kids, presents more design freedom for adults, and leaves you with an autumnal decoration that lasts until you trade your fall décor for holiday lights! 🎃 🎃👻

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