Toys in Space

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Read the story aloud to your child and enjoy it together stopping to talk about what happens when your child wants to discuss the pictures or what is happening. Talk about the story Look at pictures of the amazing variety of life on earth and talk about the way creatures evolve to fit the place they live. What might creatures from another planet look like? When the spaceship arrives, the author repeats the word bigger. Why is this? Can you think of some synonyms for the word ‘bigger’? There’s even a built-in moral dilemma of exactly the right sort to engage young children, and danger sits alongside zany humour as the reader becomes both spectator and participant, engaging with the action while at the same time commenting on it – just as the toys do in the garden overnight.

Toys in Space by Mini Grey KS1 Book Topic - Teachwire Toys in Space by Mini Grey KS1 Book Topic - Teachwire

Sharing and exploring through creative cross-curricular activities 5-10 years Adapt our activities to suit your children’s interests and abilities! An imaginative, beautifully illustrated story by talented picture book maker Mini Grey. It explores what might happen if toys are forgotten and left in the garden overnight. Through a story within a story the toys and the reader go on a journey into space. There are important themes to talk about such as being frightened and making good or bad choices. Mini Grey writes To calm their fears, Wonderdoll decides to occupy the time by telling a story. She spins a marvelous yarn about some toys who are beamed aboard a spaceship, leading the sheep to bleat, "Someone might get their stuffing probed!" But, not to worry . . . this alien, who looks like a glove wearing pajamas, is only looking for his own missing toy.From ever-inventive, award-winning author-illustrator Mini Grey comes a hilarious and heartfelt new a motley group of toys left outside in the garden become true friends and brave heroes--in space! There is a massive amount in this book for your class to engage with and they will be keen to talk about the story, as well as relate it to their own experiences. What did they think about the book and the way it was illustrated? Did it remind them of anything else they’ve read? Did anything suprise them?

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Write the story of how one of these toys was kidnapped by the Hoctopize - or tell it as an exciting first-person narrative! Gather children together to discuss the exercise. With you acting as scribe, ask children to collaborate on a piece of descriptive writing about the toys’ dreams.Provide a collection of toys and invite children to choose their own audience. If you like, you can record each child so that they can listen to themselves (and each other). Perhaps you could create a CD of stories to share with another class? Lost dreams In Wonderdoll's story, a mysterious spaceship appears out of the night sky. Inside is a strange space creature, known as the Hoctopize, who looks rather like a glove and is wearing pyjamas. The Hoctopize is very sad because he has lost his own beloved toy, Cuddles. Travelling the galaxies to find him, he has filled his spaceship with a thousand lost toys, collected from night-time gardens all over earth. Worried about the lost toys, Wonderdoll and the others decide to help the Hoctopize to return them to their own unhappy owners - and then throw a party to help take his mind off the missing Cuddles. In a large, clear space, ask children to pretend they are a sleeping toy. Explore different positions, just like the ones in the book. Play some ‘sleepy music’ and ask the ‘best sleepers’ to tour the room in silence, two at a time, allowing them to observe everyone else while your class is still and quiet. What about aliens with other quantities of fingers or tentacles? Draw them, then show how they count and do their sums. And as evidence against the idea of consistently reading books at a particular time of year: read in February and July. Stupid human proclivity for seeing patterns, even when there aren't any.

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Organize thoughts with graphic organizer - Students can summarize, with drawings or words about the story, to understand the story better.Ask children to pretend they are presenting a TV news report about a recently-discovered planet, with one child narrating while the others mime. Move on to individual or group writing, and video children reading their ‘news reports’. The secret life of toys Make sure everyone understands the idea of a ‘story within a story’ and draw attention to the way the toys help shape the action. Did Wonderdoll invent everything? Or did the adventure really happen?

KS1 Book Topic – Toys in Space - Teachwire

Make a collection of toys – teddies, dolls, small world figures - and weigh them. Which is the heaviest? The lightest? Present your results in different ways and generate questions that will help you interpret them. e.g. are all the dolls heavier or lighter than all the teddies? Does the biggest toy have the greatest mass? In this book, the Hoctopize first appears as a silhouette, which increases the tension. Use a white screen and spotlight to explore silhouettes cast by different shapes.If you have access to a safe, high location, drop the toys and time how long it takes for them to reach the ground. Collect data to analyse and display. The story takes place over the course of one night and into the next morning. Can you explain why we have day and night?