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!!

Can we have your Junk please?!

Dear Parents,

Please could we have your junk materials again? We are looking at 3D shapes so boxes any shape or size, empty toilet rolls, tubes and cans would be great.

Kind Regards

Janet McDonald and Amie Smith

International Day photos

Finally got my phone working again and downloaded some great pictures of your children on International day. Sorry for the delay!

"Who's that Trip-Trapping on my Bridge"?!!!!!!

Last week our story was 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'. During our joint activities with RS, the children made goats, troll puppets and bridges for the goats to cross. We made paper plate billy goats and trolls and did other fun activities such as matching and sorting. 

In numeracy this week we have been measuring different objects around the classroom, including Mrs McDonald's arm...and the circumference of her tummy...!!!

"Who's that trip trapping on my bridge"?!!

Constructing bridges

Dinosaurs crossing the river on the bridge. 

Paper plate trolls

Sorting and matching.

Boys at work building!

Billy goats

Hannah cooking dinner!

The week was ended with a special time of the week, Golden Time. the children played nicely sharing toys together! Well Done RM