EYFS/KS1 ‘The Forgettery’ Literacy Activities Pack

Explore what we remember and why we forget with this engaging activities pack based on a beautiful children’s book from Rachel Ip and Laura Hughes.

Children will:

• Enjoy a shared reading-for-pleasure experience
• Use the ideas in the book as a prompt for further explorations
• Look at text and pictures to extend their understanding
• Explore the nature of memories and remembering
• Explore the nature of forgetting
• Consider the emotional impact of forgetting and of recalling memories
• Derive ways to prompt remembering and not forgetting things
• Start to understand the idea of memory loss caused by dementia in old age

This resources pack for EYFS/KS1 includes:

• Activity sheet 1 – Different types of remembering
• Activity sheet 2 – Coming up with ways to remember
• Activity sheet 3 – Making memories
• Activity sheet 4 – Drawing happy memories
• Teacher’s notes

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• Teacher notes
• Activity sheet 1 - Different types of remembering
• Activity sheet 2 - Coming up with ways to remember
• Activity sheet 3 - Making memories
• Activity sheet 4 - Drawing happy memories