Missing Poster: Children to create a missing poster to help the little boy find the penguin. Also used as a good hook as the children want to read the book to find out if their predictions were correct! Tiny-text: Children to have little extracts from the book and isolated images which they then use to predict what the book might be about – helps with prediction skills and requires the children to justify their ideas. They produced some brilliant pieces of writing across a range of genres which enabled me to see their strengths and gaps in order to inform future planning.Ĭreative ways to use Lost and Found within the classroom: I used this book with my Year 3 class at the start of the year as a 2 week initial writing assessment. The story and language is really accessible for the children and they absolutely loved reading it. But what’s that in the distance? Heading towards the boy, behind an iceberg, is the penguin floating towards the boy in his stripy umbrella ready to for the two to be reunited. So quickly he sails back to the South Pole only to find the penguin is not there anymore. As he turns his boat around and sets off on his lonely journey home with no one to tell stories to, he suddenly realises that he is making a huge mistake. Eventually they reach the South Pole and the little boy helps the penguin out of his boat. They travel through ‘good weather and bad’ and over waves which are ‘as big as mountains’. The book explores themes of friendship and bravery as the little boy sets out on a mission to find a home for a penguin who has mysteriously turned up on his doorstep. It could be used with upper KS1 or lower Ks2. It is a really sweet story about the friendship between a little boy and a lost penguin, who in fact turns out not to be lost at all, just lonely.
Lost and Found is such a brilliant book with absolutely beautiful illustrations.
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