My Mum and Dad Make Me Laugh

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You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. This is a funny story about a mum who likes spots, a dad who likes stripes and a little boy dressed in grey. He has also written and illustrated many of his own books including My Mum and Dad Make Me Laugh , Once Upon a Time.

No wonder they make their son laugh, but they think that he's funny in his grey patternless clothes. This was my favourite book as a child (unsurprising given I grew up to get an elephant tattoo) and I now give it to everyone I know when they have a baby. In this lesson we will be reading 'My Mum and Dad Make Me Laugh' by Nick Sharratt as a sensory story. No wonder they make their son laugh - mind you, they think that he's funny in his grey patternless clothes. This afternoon we combined two of our favourite things here at Clare’s Little Tots – cars and drawing.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This was an open ended activity, the children could compare stripes, find the stripe with the most dots, or find the stripe with 1 more spot etc. We will be supporting sensory exploration and encourage opportunities to develop anticipation through visual tracking activities.

His parents make the boy laugh; Mum is crazy about spots – spotty clothes, spotty wallpaper, spotty games like dominoes; Dad loves stripes – stripy suits and stripy ties, stripy humbug sweets.

He has won many awards including the Sheffield Children’s Book Award (1996, 1997, 2000 and 2001), the Red House Children’s Book Award (1997, 2001 and 2003), the Smarties Book Prize (2000), the Kate Greenaway Medal (2003) and the Blue Peter Award (2003).

In addition to the lesson slides there is a downloadable guide with additional resources for those supporting the child's learning to use alongside the lesson. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Packed with patterns of stripes and spots, this book also contains a clue on each spread as to the nature of the little boy's obsession, from a pink elephant toothbrush holder in the bathroom to a bun in the cafe! Mum is crazy about spots - spotty clothes, spotty wallpaper, spotty games like dominoes; Dad loves stripes - stripy suits and stripy ties, stripy humbug sweets. Crazy ABC" and "Little and Big" in The Little Learning Library by Judy Hindley, as well as three verse anthologies edited by Jill Bennett and the cover of the award-winning novel "Tracy Beaker". Julia Eccleshare, the editorial expert on Lovereading4kids says, Nick Sharratt’s big and bold illustrations leap off the page and delight very young readers with their cheerful simplicity.

An absolute favourite with my children when they were young and they still rhyme off phrases from the story. The sounds of lots of different noises are celebrated in Toddle Waddle as a toddler takes a simple stroll to the end of the pier and lots of others follow, greedy animals tuck into delicious plates of food at the lovely meal where manners don’t matter in Chocolate Mousse for Greedy Goose. A set of visual aids that can be used with the fun story, ‘My Mum and Dad Make Me Laugh’ by Nick Sharrat. Nick Sharratt is a popular children's book artist, well known for illustrating the books of Jacqueline Wilson. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

When they go to the safari park, Mum goes wild about the big cats, while Dad enthuses over the zebras. The core book this week for Reception-aged children has been ‘My Mum and Dad make me laugh’ by Nick Sharratt. This simply play activity took a few minutes to set up, costs nothing and is done using things you’ll already have around the house.