Jack and the Beanstalk

Last week's story was 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. Children had fun planting beans and recording their results in a diary. They were excited to look at their beans everyday to see how much they had grown. Children made a book also retelling the story with pictures.  We all decided that Jack wasn't really a good boy for stealing gold from the giant!

During our joint activities with RS we decorated leaves for a beanstalk, planted our beans, retold the story using our dolls' house as a castle, played with balances weighing the money that Jack stole from the giant, and making a lovely picture of Jack's house and the beanstalk in his garden. Children played with the emotion puppets deciding if the giant was happy, sad or angry that his gold was stolen!!

Finally we made a beanstalk and tried to write as many letters as we could on the leaves in capitals and lowercase.

Will our beanstalk reach the castle?

The giants castle and Jack sneaking up the beanstalk!

Letters on leaves!

Planting beans.

Money money money!

Making castles.

Decorating beanstalk leaves.

Emotions

Jack's house

"Fee Fi Fo Fum. I smell the blood of an English man!!"

Weighing money and writing numbers.

Planting in progress!

Decorating leaves with glitter and sequins.

Jack's house.

Ooops! Those hats are a tad bit big for your August!

The boys constructing their own castle

GIrls love to dress up!

Great letter writing!!