Printable colouring sheets and ideas of how to use the pictures and other resources in your setting.  Each activity focuses on a different aspect of language development as each season is explored.  The resource is carefully designed for 5-7 year olds.

These programmes, based on the four seasons, can be used throughout the school year as home activities or as in class activities.

The aim is to promote skills such as attention and listening, developing vocabulary, understanding of language, expressive language and phonological awareness.

Spring has Sprung with Boris and Bella:

• Activity 1:  Inspector Boris (phonological & semantic investigation of words)
• Activity 2:  Sounds around- where is the 'th'? (sound placement awareness & production of sound)
• Activity 3: tell us a story- but we want to know more (expanding adjectives in a structured way & building these into a story)
• Activity 4: Idioms- what's that you said? (exploring idioms/expressions)

Sizzling Summer with Boris and Bella:

• Activity 1: Book the holiday (complex verbal reasoning game)
• Activity 2: getting sorted for holiday (categorising vocabulary)
• Activity 3: past, present and future (using tenses)
• Activity 4: Sounds around- where is the 'r' sound? (sound placement awareness & production)

Autumn Antics with Boris and Bella:

• Activity 1: Autumn mind mapping (developing and categorising vocabulary to aid and expand memory within a topic)
• Activity 2: Autumn Snakes and Ladders (verbal reasoning board game)
• Activity 3: Autumn Stories (creating and structuring stories from component parts)
• Activity 4: Sounds around (sound placement awareness)

Winter Wonderland with Boris and Bella:

• Activity 1: The Christmas Party Invitation (complex verbal reasoning game)
• Activity 2: Guess what? (asking effective questions & giving effective clues)
• Activity 3: Season Sorting (explaining when events happen and why)
• Activity 4: Tell us a story (creating and structuring stories from component parts, including 'why')
• Activity 5: Sounds around (sound placement awareness)