There's a hippo on the roof
There's a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake shares a young girl's imagination of a hippo who seems able to do anything he likes - and not get into trouble!
The oracy book pack for There's a hippopotamus contains a lesson plan and all supporting resource materials for each activity.
Theme: food
Lesson plan includes:
- general preparatory discussion notes: 'eating cake - favourite foods'
- puppet / language activity
- language game: There's a hippo ... sentences
- barrier game: basic concepts
- memory activity (visual/verbal based) - sentence patterning
- 2 sound level activities: counting syllables & sound blending
- 2 word level activities: describing adjectives & word association
- 2 sentence level activities: sentence combining & sentence extension
- 3 text level activities: same and different ; game - what am I? & text innovation (hippo variations)