Lucy and Tom at the Seaside

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Shirley Hughes illustrated more than 200 children's books and is one of the best-loved writers for children, known for her beloved classics including the Alfie and Annie Rose stories, and Dogger. Help the children to clap with a steady beat. Once they are familiar with the song they could try the traditional game (it works best if adults are Arch and Leader).

Cat invites the listeners to identify where they can hear the sounds? Cat then encourages the children to imagine that it is a beautiful day at the seaside and that they are applying suncream, digging in the sand, making sandcastles and eating ice-cream. Can you learn about sinking and floating? You could test different objects while in the bath to test if they sink or float. Accompanying activities, worksheets and speed sound books can be found here as well as home reading books and free Read Write Inc E-books. Shirley began to write and draw her own picture books when her children were young. Her first book - Lucy and Tom's Day - was published in 1960, and she followed it with, among others, Dogger, and the Alfie series. Her books include the wordless picture book Up and Up, collection of rhymes and poems Out and About, and for the very young The Nursery Collection.

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Sound discrimination: traffic sounds , horns honking , watery sounds , waves crashing , beach sounds , seagull screeching , digging sounds . Can you make your own junk model boat? Does it float? Can you add a sail and blow it to make it go?

She also collaborated with her daughter, Clara Vulliamy, on the Dixie O'Day series; which saw Shirley with an illustrator for the first time with Shirley writing the text and Clara creating the illustrations. Have you ever written our recieved a postcard? Can you write a postcard imagining that you are on a seaside holiday. Who will you send it to? What activities might you do at the seaside that you could write about?

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Next time you go to the beach can you build a sandcastle? Can you make some model flags for your sandcastle? Missing number worksheets to fill in the numbers on the sandcastles plus blank versions for you to add your own numbers She wrote two novels for older children, Hero on a Bicycle, about a 13-year-old Italian boy during the occupation of Florence, and Whistling in the Dark, set during the Liverpool Blitz. Her memoir, A Life Drawing, was published in 2002.