Shark in the Park

• Read the story to your child
• What is the brand new toy?
• Encourage your child to join in with the repeats: ‘Timothy Pope, Timothy Pope is looking through his telescope,’ ‘There’s a Shark in the Park!’
• Can you act out the actions in the story together?: ‘look at the sky, look at the ground, look left and right, look all around’
• Talk together about the things that Timothy sees
• How does the story end?

Beyond Shark in the Park

• Using the paper in the pack, together roll it into a tube shape. Use the sticky labels to hold it together. Now you have your own telescope – what can you see through it?
• Can you copy Timothy’s actions looking up, down, left, right and all around?
• Find out some facts about sharks
• Talk together about going to the park
• Does your park have a pond?

Useful Websites for Shark in the Park story

Oliver Thomas – Shark in the Park

BBC CBBC – Sharks