Printable colouring sheets and ideas of how to use the pictures and other resources in your setting. Each activity focuses on a different aspect of language development as each season is explored. The resource is carefully designed for 3-4 year olds.

These programmes, based on the four seasons, can be used throughout the school year as home activities or as in class activities.

The aim is to promote skills such as attention and listening, developing vocabulary, understanding of language, expressive language and phonological awareness (pre-reading skills).

Spring Walk

• Activity 1: Boris and Bella's farm (understanding instructions)
• Activity 2: Sorting for size (understanding 'er' & 'est')
• Activity 3: Hide and seek (prepositions)

Summer Walk

• Activity 1: The listening sandcastle (attention, listening & auditory memory)
• Activity 2: All aboard the train (phonological awareness- beginning, middle & end)
• Activity 3: Sound buckets (phonological awareness- sounds)
• Activity 4: Busy Bella and the growing garden (first/then & sequencing skills)

Autumn Walk

• Activity 1: Autumn Vocabulary
• Activity 2: The Listening Tree (attention, listening & auditory memory)
• Activity 3: Busy Bella (verbs)
• Activity 4: Where is Boris? (prepositions)
• Activity 5: Syllable Clapping (phonological awareness- syllables)

Winter Walk

• Activity 1: Washing Day (attention, listening & auditory memory)
• Activity 2: Sock fun (understanding & giving instructions)
• Activity 3: Hanging out the washing (auditory memory)
• Activity 4: Sounds around. (phonological awareness- syllables and rhyme)