Cambridge Early Years Let's Explore Learner's Book 3A

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Early Years Let’s Explore

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Learner’s Book 3A

Kathryn Harper & Elly Schottman Original material © Cambridge University Press & Assessment 2023.

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Note to parents and practitioners Block 1: Places near and far

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Block 2: Farms and being outside

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Note to parents and practitioners This Learner’s Book provides activities to support the first term of Let’s Explore for Cambridge Early Years 3.

Find us on the front covers doing lots of fun activities.

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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.

Hi, my name is Mia.

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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Block 1

Places near and far

People in the park

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Choose stickers and say.

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1, 2, 3 Where can I be?

Can you see me Hanging from the

For practitioners Children explore the picture and discuss what they can see. Children stick the matching pictures in place, e.g., football to team. Talk about what the people are doing in the picture. Ask What events do you celebrate in your community? Encourage children to find Kiho in the picture by finishing the rhyme aloud.

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Taj and Kai are making food for their festival. How do they need to be careful?

Making festival food Match.

2 I’m preparing fruits.

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I don’t know how to hold this knife.

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The tomatoes are rolling away!

My brother is funny!

Hold the knife in your writing hand.

Keep your eyes on the food!

Hold the food in place!

Use a cutting board.

For practitioners Children look at the pictures. Read aloud the speech bubbles for them. Discuss what the risk might be in each picture. Children then write in the number of the risk next to how Taj and Kai should be careful. If necessary, talk about the different warnings if they are unfamiliar.

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Where do they grow?

Match.

Above the ground

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Under the ground

Onion

Mangoes

Peas

Tomato

Potato

Cherries

For practitioners Read the coloured labels with children and help them identify the photos. Explain the task. Encourage children to work together to decide where each food item grows and draw a line between the picture and the correct label.

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