The children were all familiar with the tale of a poor stick who gets carried far away from his family tree. The children loved watching the BBC adaptation on the CTouch board as well as listening to the story being read aloud to them. We discussed the season changing throughout the story and they all loved the ending, as Father Christmas helps Stick Man finally return home.

In literacy, the children sequenced pictures of the events that happen in the story and they could talk about each part confidently. Then the children wrote speech bubbles to match the story. We started with the simple sentence, I am Stick Man. We counted the number of words on our fingers and discussed how important finger spaces are. The children then decided on their own sentences they would like to write. They listened carefully for the sounds in each word and they could all spell the tricky word I independently.