Everyone wants to be in Miss Wacky’s class – she is a-ma-ZING! She’s really good at surprises but no one could ever have guessed what her biggest and most amazing surprise of all was.
A simple story structure sheet for Space Story.
Cut out the sentences and arrange the main events of Space story: Miss Wacky's day out in the correct order.
Read through the closing thought with the children and talk about the ideas in it.
This retelling of Space Story comes from storyteller Therese Collins. Talk to the children about how stories can change with every retelling.
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Let the children demonstrate how well they’ve understood Space Story: Miss Wacky’s Day Out with these comprehension questions.
Teach personification in poetry with this charming poem from Joshua Seigal.
Talking about the size of the universe is a great time to improve children’s vocabulary relating to size.
Develop children’s understanding of the main characters in Space Story with these fun crew profile sheets.
Write the character’s own thoughts and ideas inside the outline; write other people’s thoughts and ideas about the character on the outside.
Play this fun game to help with the concept of position and movement.
Practise number skills with these space-themed activity sheets for KS1.
Use this sheet to develop children’s subject vocabulary and support writing activities.
Story starter: Marcus Bole is left on the Moon but what happens next?
Learn about the Father of Science, Sir Isaac Newton with this short biography.
Create a map of your favourite constellation.
Our space fact cards are packed with information about all of the planets in our solar system.
Our downloadable space fact card templates make great class displays and are perfect for children to use when presenting their findings to the class.
These image-only space fact cards are ready for children to add their own facts. Use on the whiteboard or on tablet computers.
Reinforce number bonds with these space-themed activity sheets for KS1.
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Our ‘Storytelling prompts’ for Space story: Miss Wacky's day out are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons. These pictorial prompts come without any text.
Our ‘Storytelling prompts’ for Space story: Miss Wacky's day out are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons. These prompts come with keyword phrases from the story.
Introduce children to Isaac Newton’s discoveries and develop listening skills at the same time with this entertaining radio play.
Our ‘Storytelling prompts’ for Space story: Miss Wacky's day out are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons. These prompts come with keywords.
This collection of nebulas will be great inspiration for music, art and poetry.
Show the children the risk assessment form you use for school visits.
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‘Be quiet!’ said Badger. ‘Keep it down!’ grumbled Hedgehog. ‘Stop banging!’ pleaded Owl. Poor Rabbit, it seemed that no-one appreciated his drumming. But when trouble
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Poems for learning by heart, poems for performance but, best of all, poems to inspire.
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Use this planner as a scaffold to help create your own story using the same structure as A Thumping Great Rabbit.
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Use our editable playscript in drama activities or for a full-scale production.
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Arm your class with magnifying glasses, notebooks, cameras and viewing jars and head out and about with these sheets to find out if your local
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Choose a tree, head out with pencils, crayons and a measuring tape and fill in the boxes to create a record of it.
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Reward your Early Years and KS1 storytellers with this A Thumping Great Rabbit themed certificate.
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Our downloadable woodland animal fact cards teach us about foxes, hedgehogs, rabbits and deers and will help start children off on their voyage of discovery
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Our downloadable woodland animal fact card templates make great class displays and are perfect for children to use when presenting their findings to the class.
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Our woodland animal fact cards are ready for children to add their own pictures of four of our favourite characters from A Thumping Great Rabbit.
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Our woodland animal fact cards are ready for children to add their own facts for four of our favourite characters from A Thumping Great Rabbit.
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Bel Deering takes us through some useful minibeast basics – very useful for when you are out and about on your bug hunt.
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Our image-only ‘Storytelling prompts’ for A thumping great rabbit are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons.
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Our ‘Storytelling prompts’ with keyword phrases are the perfect accompaniment to your A Thumping Great Rabbit storytelling lessons.
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Our keyword ‘Storytelling prompts’ for A thumping great rabbit are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons.
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Give your local trees a clean bill of health with these official-looking, class-issued 'Clean bill of health' certificates.
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Use these data sheets with the woodland animal shapes resource.
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Use these outlines of the woodland animal characters in A Thumping Great Rabbit to work out water rationing.
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