Cambridge Early Years Learner's Book 1A

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Early Years

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Learner’s Book 1A

Alison Borthwick, Gill Budgell, Kathryn Harper, Claire Medwell, Cherri Moseley & Elly Schottman Original material © Cambridge University Press & Assessment 2023.

Contents 3

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Note to parents and practitioners Block 1: All about me Let’s Explore

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Communication and Language

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Mathematics

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Block 2: Senses Let’s Explore

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Communication and Language

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Mathematics

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Acknowledgements 40

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Note to parents and practitioners Hi, my name is Mia. Find us on the front covers doing lots of fun activities.

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This Learner’s Book provides activities and stories to support the first term of Let’s Explore, Communication and Language, and Mathematics for Cambridge Early Years 1.

Activities can be used at school or at home. Children will need support from an adult. Additional guidance about activities can be found in the For practitioners boxes.

Some activities use stickers. The stickers can be found in the section in the middle of this book.

Stories are provided for children to enjoy looking at and listening to. Children are not expected to be able to read the stories themselves.

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Children will encounter the following characters within this book. You could ask children to point to the characters when they see them on the pages, and say their names.

Hi, my name is Gemi.

The Learner’s Book activities support the Teaching Resource activities. The Teaching Resource provides step-by-step coverage of the Cambridge Early Years curriculum and guidance on how the Learner’s Book activities develop the curriculum learning statements.

Hi, my name is Rafi.

Hi, my name is Kiho.

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If You’re Happy and You Know It Traditional children's song

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If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands!

If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands!

If you’re happy and you know it, and you really want to show it, If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands!

If you’re happy and you know it, stomp your feet!

If you’re happy and you know it, stomp your feet!

If you’re happy and you know it, and you really want to show it, If you’re happy and you know it, stomp your feet!

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If you’re happy and you know it, say hurrah!

If you’re happy and you know it, say hurrah!

If you’re happy and you know it, and you really want to show it, If you’re happy and you know it, say hurrah!

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I’m happy!

Trace and say.

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Trace the smile and say I’m happy.

Colour in the person.

For practitioners Children trace the smile and colour in the person to represent themselves.

Children point and say I’m happy. Sing the song again together.

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Colourful clothes

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Colour and talk.

For practitioners Children choose a range of colours to use to colour in Teddy’s clothes. Then speaking in the voice of Teddy, they find others with the same colour clothes. I have a yellow T-shirt. What colour is your T-shirt? In pairs, ask children to find other objects in the area that are the same colours.

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How many?

Match and say.

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Draw a line to match the objects to a number.

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2 3 4 5

For practitioners Children match the objects to the numbers by drawing lines from the picture to the number of objects they can see, e.g., a line from the slide to the number 1.

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