Learn key summer vocabulary beginning with the letter 's'.

There are four versions avaiable: full colour, black and white, missing vowels, missing words.

These wordmats can be used in lots of different ways

1) I spy with my little eye … a sandcastle! (children point at the sandcastle or place their rubber on it, for example).  This can also be done as pairwork.

2) colour dictation - I spy with my little eye … green sunglasses!

3) bingo - each child chooses three pictures and places something on them, e.g. counters/glass nuggets.  The teacher draws the picture cards at random and once their three have been called, the children shout 'Bingo!'.

TIP:  This can also be played in groups with a bingo master for each group.

4) running dictation -  flashcards are placed around the room. The children them, memorise the word and write it down on the sheet at their desk.

5) copy writing - hide the wordcards / flashcards around the room and the children label the pictures as they find them

Key words from the rhyming picture book 'Brown Owl at the Seashore' by Rachel Schmidlechner and Nadja Grace Bodner.

For more information about my series of rhyming picture books, please visit: readandrhyme.at