There was an old lady who swallowed a bell is a perfect story for Christmas! This pack is full of retelling activities, craftivities, writing activities plus a set of colored sequence cards. The activities included are: A set of 14 coloured pictures for sequencing the story- these can all be used or for younger children just a few of the main picture cards can be used Comprehension worksheet A set of comprehension question cards to choose the correct answer from a choice of two Worksheet- colour the things the old lady swallowed and put a cross through the things she didn’t swallow Craftivity- assemble the parts and fill in a choice of two sentences Cut and paste worksheet of what the old lady ate Craftivity- cut out the old lady and feed her the picture cards in order- the face can be pasted onto a box and the mouth cut out Writing sheets- 8 different worksheet to list five things the old lady ate such as five things that are green, five things that begin with ‘b’. Plus a blank version of the worksheet Missing word worksheet to complete the sentences with the words listed at the bottom of the page A Question worksheet A story retelling worksheet to write four main parts of the story Sentence scramble pack which can be used for activities or a literacy center with words to sequence and three worksheets to cut and stick the words to make the sentences A cut and paste story sequence worksheet Simple picture cards to sequence for the story

The pack includes: Display banner- a long colourful display banner Display border- a display border with zoo animals to print out as many times as you need for a display of any size Photos- coloured photos of different zoo animals Zoo animal posters- pictures of different animals found in zoos with their names Face masks- animal face masks in colour and black and white to use for role play or story telling- also included is a zoo keeper face mask Escaped animal posters- fill in the details of escaped animals- 3 version of this worksheet for differentiation Animal adjective- a collection of cards with adjectives to describe different animals My trip to the Zoo- a book to make about a trip to the zoo Zoo keeper diary- fill in the details of what a zoo keeper might do in a day Dice game- roll a die and collect the numbered part of your animal Animal jigsaws- cut up the animal pictures along the lines and reassemble to make the animal My favourite zoo animal worksheet- draw and write about your favourite animal Alphabet line- a cute alphabet line with lower case letters on monkeys and upper case letters on bananas Animal number line- a number line from 0-50 on zoo animals Design a zoo animal cage- choose a zoo animal and design a suitable cage for it Design a zoo- choose which animals you will have in your zoo and design the zoo If I were an animal worksheet- decide which zoo animal you would like to be and draw and write about it Describing animal worksheets- a collection of worksheets for different animals asking the children to describe them Animal fact cards- learn all about different zoo animals with these colourful posters Label the animals- label different zoo animals Literacy worksheets- match the animal to the names, write the initial sounds, writing outline sheets Make a spiral snake- decorate the snake and then cut out to make a hanging spiral snake Writing pages- four decorated photocopiable pages for writing- great to add to your writing area Colouring pictures- a collection of zoo animal colouring pictures