Sewing with embroidery silks onto felt gives great results for beginner sewing projects. Use the techniques demonstrated to create simple shell cushions.
Use this story planner to help with story structure when writing or telling stories.
Look at how colours can be linked to words and talk about the shades of meaning.
A treasure hunt maths activity. Use with the 'Spirals and pearls' maths lesson or use with your own maths sequencing activities.
Help children to build up a fuller picture of the characters in Tao and the Kingdom of Pearls.
Match the Tao and the Kingdom of Pearls character to their personality trait.
Use this activity sheet to help children devise their own questions in a class quiz on Tao and the Kingdom of Pearls.
Read through the 'Up above and down below' closing thought and talk about the ideas in it during your class or school assembly.
Cut out the sentences and arrange the main events of Tao and the Kingdom of Pearls in the correct order.
These words from the Tao and the Kingdom of Pearls are often misspelled.
An evil black liquid is stopping the sun from shining on Aliikai’s Kingdom of Pearls. She has to find a way to rid the sea of it and she can’t do it alone.
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Meet our little grub on his journey to becoming a Moon Moth. Along the way, he meets lots of Madagascan jungle animals and learns about
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Use the story map to help children visualise the key events in A Grub’s Tale.
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Our Madagascan assembly can be used as a way to help children to showcase the work they have done on Madagascar.
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Talk about the life cycles of the creatures in A Grub’s Tale.
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We look at some of the life cycles of the animals in our story A Grub’s Tale.
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Cut out and make some reveal-and-learn French picture cards for all of the animals in A grub’s tale.
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How much of A Grub’s Tale has been remembered? Our quiz is split in two with closed and open questions and will really get the
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Can children work out how the conversation between Grub and the Blue-legged Mantella Frog might have gone better?
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Reward your KS1 storytellers with this A grub's life themed certificate.
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Reward your KS2 storytellers with this A grub's life themed certificate.
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At the age of 12, a slave boy, on the island of Madagascar discovered a technique for pollinating vanilla orchids quickly and profitably – read
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The intriguing story of growing vanilla in Madagascar is a very tasty subject for study and is the perfect springboard for looking at pollination.
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The Vanilla Princess is a Mayan tale about the story of the creation of the vanilla plant.
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Talk about pollination then test what has been learned by using this 'Insects that pollinate' resource.
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The official language in Madagascar is French. Here are some useful phrases to use if you are devising a French puppet show.
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Our downloadable Madagascan animal fact cards will help start children off on their voyage of discovery of Malagasy animals. Use on the whiteboard or on
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Our downloadable Madagascan animal fact card templates make great class displays and are perfect for children to use when presenting their findings to the class.
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Our downloadable Madagascan animal fact cards are ready for children to add their own illustrations.
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Our downloadable Madagascan animal fact cards are ready for children to add their own researched facts.
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Work out how much leaf our little grub has left at the end of the day with some simple addition and subtraction of fractions.
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No slideshow could do justice to the treasure of creatures that live on the island of Madagascar but these beautiful images are a great starting
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Our image-only ‘Storytelling prompts’ for A Grub’s Tale are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons.
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Our ‘Storytelling prompts' for A grub’s tale are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons. These prompts come with keywords.
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A supplemental cross quiz that will help solidify knowledge after learning all about vanilla.
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Use these colour and cut out templates to make stick puppets for a puppet performance of A Grub’s Tale.
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