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Educational and fun audiobooks for children and families. A variety of genres await and each podcast comes with podcast specific questions assessing retrieval, sequencing, SPaG, prediction, inference and note taking skills. Ideal as an independent classroom activity, intervention exercise OR homework task.
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Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Daisy and the trouble with Christmas part 5
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Chapter 13, 14 and 15
What is Daisy’s favourite song from the show? Why was she not allowed to sing it?
What was the cardboard box for?
Mrs. Peters asks the children to ‘find’, ‘hunt’ and ‘peer’ – what do all these words mean?
When did the specially dollies need to be in school?
What did Paula’s dolly do?
Who brought in ‘Baby Wee-Wee’ ?
Which two children brought in a ‘Baby Dribble Bibs’?
Why did Daisy think hers was the best?
What did Jack Beechwhistle bring in?
List the features that Laura Donnelly’s dolly didn’t have or do
When Daisy asked her mum to complain, what did she do?
Who does Daisy think is the most special person in the world?
What were Daisy and Gabby going to swap the dolly with? Do you think this is a good idea?
Why do you think Mrs Peters chose Laura’s dolly?
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Daisy and the trouble with Christmas part 4
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Chapter 10, 11 and 12
Why did the soldiers say that their swords couldn’t be seen?
What special power did Harry’s crown contain?
Whose robe became a Spider Man net?
What was Daisy’s predicament at the end of playtime?
Why did Mrs Peters tell Daisy about her role early?
What would happen to the stage when Daisy got the baby?
How many words did Daisy have to learn? Can you remember them?
What is a ‘curtsey’? When might you do one?
What would mum use to help make Daisy’s costume?
Why doesn’t Daisy like Christmas Crackers that much?
Go through the 12 days of Christmas” song and work out how many of the parts you have actually seen in real life!
How did Mum get banned from the game? What rule did she break?
Friday Nov 13, 2020
Daisy and the trouble with Christmas part 3
Friday Nov 13, 2020
Friday Nov 13, 2020
CHAPTERS 7,8 and 9
Have you been in a school Nativity before? What part were you or would like to have done?
Whose dad was going to complain if they weren’t Joseph?
What parts did Gabby and Daisy want?
Why did Gabby feel sad and upset that she had scuffed her shoes?
Why did the class have to wait even longer to be told their parts?
“She’s really jammy” said Daisy about Gabby. What does this phrase mean?
What is the name of the group of singing sheep? What is this repetition called?
How did Daisy’s feelings change about the part she was given and why?
Where did Jack Beechwhistle have to stand at the start of the lesson?
Who is too busy to look after babies?
What/Who did Daisy call ‘Buttons’ ?
What does Daisy think the trouble with sleeping in a stable might be?
If you had visited Jesus in a stable what present would you have brought?
Which sound interrupted the telling of the Christmas story?
Saturday Nov 07, 2020
Daisy and the trouble with Christmas part 2
Saturday Nov 07, 2020
Saturday Nov 07, 2020
CHAPTERS 4,5 AND 6
How long has Daisy been waiting since Bonfire Night?
Daisy repeats the word 'excited' a lot. Can you find 3 suitable synonyms?
Who does Daisy blame for what happened at the Christmas play?
How did Daisy spell 'poison' ?
What is a rehearsal?
When would everyone know what part they were playing?
Which pair of homophones does Daisy mix up?
Why did the girls get annoyed when Mum joined in the game?
Which of Gabby's Christmas decorations was on the lawn?
What do the words 'tacky' and 'wonky' mean and which word describes Daisy lights?
How does Daisy's tree come together?
Write a dictionary definition for the word 'carol'.
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
Daisy and the trouble with Christmas part 1
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
For the next 6 weeks I'm going to be uploading Key Gray's "Daisy and the trouble with Christmas".
This book is a very easy read, suitable for 7+ and possibly some higher KS1 readers too. The chapters vary in size put are generally quite short, so each podcast contains 3 episodes.
Daisy has been extremely excited about Christmas since September. And when Daisy is excited, trouble will surely follow! Daisy loves the carols, the sparkly lights, the crackers, the snowmen, and especially the chance to be in the school Christmas play. She’s got seven whole words to learn! But when Daisy and her best friend Gabby decide the dolly their teacher has chosen to play the Baby Jesus is a bit… well, boring, Daisy comes up with a plan that will mean trouble!
CHAPTERS 1,2 AND 3
What do you find exciting about Christmas?
Which characters does Daisy introduce in this opening chapter?
What does the word 'fault' mean? Can you think of a suitable synonym?
Why does Daisy start getting excited in September? What sets it off?
What is Santa's special trick?
From Daisy's letter, which present do you think is the best and why?
Can you predict what might have happened in the school play?
Can you explain what the word 'alight' means?
What are the men in yellow jackets also called?
Where did Daisy's letter go? Do you think mum was telling the truth?