See here for more ideas for making simple telescopes. Give your child a cardboard tube, for example from a roll of kitchen paper, to use as a telescope what can they spot at home or in the park? If the story continued what would your child like to happen next? Would Timothy turn round and spot the shark in the pond? Watch the story read aloud here

Talk about why Timothy mistakes a cat, a crow and his dad for a shark. There are lots of things going on in the park, see what your child can spot on different pages. Join inĪs you re read the story encourage your child to join in with Timothy’s cry ‘There’s a shark in the park!’ Children will enjoy completing the rhymes in the story as well. The reader sees what Timothy sees through cut out spy holes and can decide if they think he is right when he cries ‘There’s a shark in the park! Shark in the Park is a boldly illustrated rhyming story which is fun to join in with and talk about.Īs you read the story aloud pause at each of the cut outs and guess together what Timothy may have spotted before you read on. He thinks he can spot a shark through it. Age 3-5 Timothy Pope has a brand new toy telescope and he is testing it out at the park.

Timothy pope shark in the park