Nursery > English > Language_Literacy_Communication > Oracy > Day and Night ‘Night Monkey, Day Monkey’ by Julia Donaldson

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Learning Intentions:

  • To listen to a story
  • To know differences between day and night

Step 1: Activity overview for parent, carers and pupils

There is a story video to listen to (approximately five minutes).The main activity can be completed offline.

Step 2: Introduction to the activity and additional information

To start this activity listen to the story, ‘Night Monkey, Day Monkey’ by Julia Donaldson:

Discuss the differences between day and night. Ask your child to tell you some things that they do in the day and some at night.

 

Step 3: Tasks to carry out for this activity

Activity 1: Draw a day and night picture

  • Fold a piece of paper (no smaller than A4) in half.
  • Label one side ‘Day’ and the other side ‘Night’.
  • Get your child to draw at least one thing that they do in the daytime in the one half, followed by at least one thing they do at night in the other half.
  • Get your child to label their drawings encouraging them to write the initial sound and as many others as they can.

Once you have completed the task you can email anything you create (photos, documents, screenshots etc.) directly to your teacher or directly upload it to any of the available places in Step 5.

 

Step 4: Look over the success criteria for this activity:

Success criteria #1:  I can listen to a story.

Success criteria #2:  I understand the difference between daytime and night-time.

Success criteria #3:  I can draw things I do in the day and at night.

Look at the learning intentions ‘how well do you think you have done?’

Step 5: Upload your work

Click on the relevant link below if you have any work to upload to your online areas

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