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Listen to Mrs Armstead tell the story of Casey the Caterpillar

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Listen to Mrs Armstead read the story of Casey the Caterpillar

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Have a look through the story Casey the Caterpillar - see if you can name all the shapes that we saw as we read the book

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Draw a tree, branches and eggs on your own chalk board or paper and keep practicing!

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In this clip the children will see how the shapes from the story are written on the chalkboards - so the pictures from the story are drawn on the chalkboards.

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Introducing the shapes from the story written onto the chalkboards.

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In this clip see if you can spy the shapes in people's names.

Learn to draw these shapes with Mrs Palmenco

Short stick Cup

Tall stick Ladybug spot

Tunnel Sloping stick

Twig Grasshopper leg

Possum tail Feeler

Gate that is closed hanging stick

open mouth Sammy the snake

half a tunnel twirly, curly vine

wide open mouth

Patterns

Open mouth, short stick

Open mouth, possum tail

Short stick, half a tunnel

Tall stick, Short stick
Tall stick, tunnel

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Children will connect shapes together

First - draw patterns

Cup, possum tail

Cup, short stick

Short stick, tunnel

Open mouth, tall stick

hanging stick, gate that is closed

open mouth, hanging stick, sloping stick

possum tail, ladybird spot

tall stick, grasshopper leg

tall stick, tunnel

tall stick, twig

Connecting shapes

m t i r u y

a b d e f g

n r v w x z

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In this clip children can learn the name of the letters they are forming.

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This clip teaches children about not lifting the chalk between shapes when forming letters.

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In this clip children will describe how to write down the letters using the Casey shapes and these letters will form words.

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This clip is for adults mainly - it is to explain how to move the children from chalkboards to books and the process to take to make this shift.