I don't want to go to school

Themes

School, friendship, imagination, fear, courage...

Promotional activities

Use Shel Silverstein's poem Sick from Where the sidewalk ends (1974) in which a child develops an impressive array of unusual illnesses before realising that it iss Saturday.

Storytime ideas

Bring along a school bag packed for school and play a sorting game. Do I need to take this to school? ...and pull out each item individually (eg. Watering can, lunch box, goggles, drink bottle...).

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