Activities for Guess the Baby

I have made some activities to go with the “Guess the Baby” book. Since I plan to use this book in the same week that I will teach the ‘b’ sound, the first two activities are spelling or phonics focussed.

The third activity links to the Science unit we will be doing on growing and changing.

I have designed the activities to be multipurpose. This way they can be used as a quick activity or a longer one and the lesson can be adapted to meet the needs of the group.

The first activity is really a reading activity. The students drag hidden words onto the screen and read them. You could extend this activity by having students sounding out each word and then putting the sounds back together. The words could also be sorted into alphabetical order, or into groups such as according to the number of syllables.

The second activity focuses on the blends for ‘bl’ and ‘br’. A few of the questions could have more than one answer. This is an opportunity for discussion about having more than one right answer and also building vocabulary since some children may not know words such as “bloom” or “brow”.

The third activity is a sorting activity. There is opportunity for discussion about many of the points, eg: Are these statements true for everyone?

I can only attach the images at this stage since I haven’t set up a way of putting up the files yet. I am working on that next…

BTW... Do you like the pictures? I drew them myself using two different programs and going from one program to the other to get the right type of file. It was a pain but they are done and hopefully next time I will work out a few shortcuts so it won't be so fiddly.

Guess the Baby

"Guess the Baby" by Simon French and Donna Rawlins is a lovely picture book that I used when I had Year 1 a few years ago.

I plan to use it with my Year 2 class at the start of the year. It is a lovely way to get to know children better and it ties in really well with the Science Understanding focus we will have in Term 1: “Living things grow, change and have offspring similar to themselves.” (New Australian Curriculum)

You can check out the book via this link.

The children in the story are invited by their teacher to bring in photos of themselves as babies and they hold a competition to see who can “Guess the Baby”. The illustrations are lovely and the children in my class have always enjoyed the story.

The book will be used as a springboard for our own “Guess the Baby” competition within our class.

To show how much they have grown, I will get each child to measure their height with green streamer. We use these streamers to make a height chart wall display and top off each streamer with a patty case or cupcake liner with a little photo of each child glued in the centre to make a flower.

When I get around to making some resources to go with the book I will post them to my blog.

Now I have another goal ;-)