But life in the rock pool proves tougher than Crab thinks, and soon he finds he needs his new housemates in this rollicking story of sea, shells and friendship. With sharing being difficult for children it is lovely how we get to see the crab facing the consequences of his decisions not to share and the children got to think about what they thought was the right thing for crab to do. I find this book amazing because it has rhyming words can help them investigate the rhyming patterns on each page in the book, they can retell the story from the viewpoint of the crab and with science it helped me create activities for the children about habitats, down at the seaside e.

Sharing a shell is a brightly illustrated story highlighting themes of sharing, friendship and recognising your individual strengths and characteristics.It is about three creatures living by the sea in a rock-pool who struggle to share their living spaces. This prompted me to unearth some plays I’d written for a school reading group, and since then I’ve had 20 plays published. With bright, beautiful illustrations that are great to touch as they are covered in glitter, young children will enjoy engaging with this book. This is a great book that shows the ups and downs friendships can have but still shows that there's always a way to work through problems. Enjoy all the stories from Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks: Sharing a Shell, The Princess and the Wizard, The Rhyming Rabbit, The Singing Mermaid, Sugarlump and the Unicorn, Princess Mirror-Belle and the Dragon Pox, What the Ladybird Heard, What the Ladybird Heard Next and What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday.

After finding a shell and teaming up with an anemone and a bristleworm, crab learns that when faced with the challenges a stormy sea throws at him he is better off with his new friends than on his own. The book explores friendships and relationships, of how the characters can co-operate with each other to make a lovely place to live even though they are not the same species. Sharing shell is a story about a crab who finds a new shiny shell but doesn't want to share it with an anemone and a bristle worm. This can be expanded upon to explore the different communities children live in and how/if they work to make a nice environment to live in.Sonra kitapliginda kalabilir ve artik hikayeyi bildigjnden anlamina yogunlasabilmek icin zaman zaman kendisi yatmadan once okumalarina dahil edebilir. He joins crab and the anemone and they all live in one shell, working together, until one day the shell is no longer big enough for them all. My children have a vast collection of Julia's books and love every single one of them, and I can see why. Fantastic, colourful story suitable for early years or key stage 1 children, could be simply an end of day story or it could be linked to various topics like sharing or an under the sea topic.

However, a storm occurs and the worm finds a bigger shell to accommodate them all and they soon move back in together. The thing that gets me every time with this story, is that as I read it (probably twice every day in a somewhat singsong style), Crab falls out with the other two because they are too *heavy*, but clearly that isn't the case because later on all three get back together in a bigger shell and there are no weight related issues. Sharing a Shell is a lovely story about a hermit crab who when he finds a nice new shell decides he doesn't want to share it with his friends but soon discovers it is a lot easier when you're friends are there to help you.Children can then expand on this to see what jobs there are within the UK and the World over and how they assist the people who live there. I really enjoy getting the children in the audience to help me act out the stories and sing the songs.