Lost

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found
Math and Literacy Fun

BY FOUR CHEEKY MONKEYS

Fun Literacy and math

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And thank you for purchasing this ‘Lost and Found’ mini
literacy and math pack.

Activities in this mini pack are wonderful addition when

reading the story ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers, or when
learning about Penguins. Once prepared this pack is a great
addition to your relief tub, or for relief teachers.

In this pack there are a range of activities to help children

develop important literacy skills including comprehension,
sequencing, text analysis, letter recognition, labelling skills,
counting syllables and fine motor development.

Math skills include – number recognition, counting, simple

addition, shape recognition, ordering size and measuring length.

Some activities are in black and white, others are coloured to

print, laminate and keep forever!

I hope you enjoy these resources with your students!

Love Ness (Four Cheeky Monkeys) X

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He needed:

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He was:

He found:

He learnt:
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 Sort the Beginning sounds with the correct mat
How to play
• Children are each given an initial sound mat
• Ensure children know the sound the letter makes.
• Place all picture tiles facing down.

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• One child at a time selects a tile and if the initial sound matches their mat, they
place it on the mat. If if does not match, they return it to the pile.
• This version helps children also develop visual memory skills, but it can be
made simpler by facing all pictures up instead.

Other Ideas:
• Use the sound mats and find a specific number of objects in the classroom
that begin with that sound and place them on the mat.
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All about Penguins
ANIMAL STUDY – INFORMATION REPORT

Name:

They live:

They eat:

They have:

They can:
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What were The natural and Constructed
Features of the environment in the story?

Natural Features Constructed Features

How can you help to care for these places?

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Syllable Stamp - how many Syllables?
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My favourite part of the story
 Penguins My name is:

Tail Fin

Eye

Scales Mouth
 Penguins My name is:

Tail Fin

Eye

Scales Mouth
 Print cut and use to label the penguin.

Feet Feet Feet Feet

Beak Beak Beak Beak

Flipper Flipper Flipper Flipper

Eyes Eyes Eyes Eyes

Feathers Feathers Feathers Feathers

 My name is:

Penguin adjectives
Book Title: Lostand Found My name is:

Beginning
Author: The date is:

Middle
End
 My name is:

Lost and Found

Characters Story Setting
Elements

Problem Solution
The day I lost my….
One day I lost my….

It had :

It was:

It made me feel:
Lost and found….
:
The South Pole
Is:

Has:

Weather:

Natural features:
Lost and found….
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My Suburb
Is:

Has:

Weather:

Natural features:
If I found a penguin….
If I found a penguin I would:
If I found a penguin….
 Shape sorting with Our I can:
Sort the pictures according to shape

Penguin Pals Count the obj ects with a 1 to 1

correspondence

circle
 I can:
I can:
Shape
Shapesorting
sortingwith
withOur
Our Sort the pictures according to shape

Penguin Pals
shape
Count the obj ects with a 1 to 1
1 correspondence
correspondence

square
 I can:
I can:
Shape
Shapesorting
sortingwith
withOur
Our Sort the pictures according to shape

Penguin Pals
shape
Count the obj ects with a 1 to 1
1 correspondence
correspondence

oval
 I can:
I can:
Shape
Shapesorting
sortingwith
withOur
Our Sort the pictures according to shape

Penguin Pals
shape
Count the obj ects with a 1 to 1
1 correspondence
correspondence

rectangle
 I can:
I can:
Shape
Shapesorting
sortingwith
withOur
Our Sort the pictures according to shape

Penguin Pals
shape
Count the obj ects with a 1 to 1
1 correspondence
correspondence

hexagon
 I can:
I can:
Shape
Shapesorting
sortingwith
withOur
Our Sort the pictures according to shape

Penguin Pals
shape
Count the obj ects with a 1 to 1
1 correspondence
correspondence

octagon
 I can:
I can:
Shape
Shapesorting
sortingwith
withOur
Our Sort the pictures according to shape

Penguin Pals
shape
Count the obj ects with a 1 to 1
1 correspondence
correspondence

rhombus
 I can:
I can:
Shape
Shapesorting
sortingwith
withOur
Our Sort the pictures according to shape

Penguin Pals
shape
Count the obj ects with a 1 to 1
1 correspondence
correspondence

trapezoid
 I can:
I can:
Shape
Shapesorting
sortingwith
withOur
Our Sort the pictures according to shape

Penguin Pals
shape
Count the obj ects with a 1 to 1
1 correspondence
correspondence

pentagon
 I can:
I can:
Shape
Shapesorting
sortingwith
withOur
Our Sort the pictures according to shape

Penguin Pals
shape
Count the obj ects with a 1 to 1
1 correspondence
correspondence

triangle
Print, cut and laminate shape
pictures.
Use pictures to sort according
to shape (or other attribute
– eg. size, corners etc)
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Playdough fun

EXTEND LEARNING:

• Can you make a penguin?

• Can you tell me about your
favourite part of the story?
• What would you do if you found
a penguin?
• Have you ever been lost?
• What should you do if you ever
get lost?
Penguin pals count with me!
counting
Use the following cards to count our Penguin
friends.
See if the children can write the number, make
the tally and try writing the word. For
reference there are also ‘word tracing’
cards.

These cards can also be used with the

playdough mats. The children can make that
many playdough balls, reproduce the word or
create the number.

To extend – have children tell you what number number tally

comes before and or after, what is one more,
one less etc.

word
 count with me! count with me!

number tally number tally

word word
 count with me! count with me!

number tally number tally

word word
 count with me! count with me!

number tally number tally

word word
 count with me! count with me!

number tally number tally

word word
 count with me! count with me!
one
count with me!

number tally
two
word
count with me!
three
count with me! count with me!
four seven
count with me! count with me!
five eight
count with me! count with me!
six nine
 count with me! What is one more?
ten
What comes next? What is one less?

What comes before? Count forwards to…

Count backwards…
Penguin pals measuring fun

measuring fun
Use the following cards to measure
our Penguin pals.
Change units of measurement
(formal and informal) so you can
REUSE the cards in many different
ways.

Ideas to measure with – paper

clips, unifix cubes, lego, blocks,
counters.
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 Penguin
addition

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addition

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 Penguin Print, cut and laminate the pictures. Use with
the Penguin Addition mats. Children roll the

addition
die, place that many fish onto the igloos.
Then record their sum and add up the total.
 penguin My Name is:
RECORDING SHEET:

addition The Date is:

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Measuring
Using the following printables, have children
sort the penguins according to size.

Children could glue the penguins on lengths of

cardstock from smallest to biggest or biggest
to smallest.

To extend, have children use formal or

informal units of measure to record how long
each penguin is. Children could write the
number UNDER the penguins.

The colored measuring length printable can

be laminated for durability and placed in your
math center with different informal units of
measurement. Children simply write and wipe
their answers.
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Measurement – ordering size
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Measurement – ordering size
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