Room 4 and the beanstalks

We read the story Jack and the Beanstalk. We drew pictures and wrote captions! You can hear the story here. 

We found out all about how plants and trees grow. 

We found out that some of our food comes from

 plants and trees. 

We decided to be farmers!! We went to the school garden and planted broad bean seeds! 

 

These are the broad bean seeds. 

We brought the seeds to the garden. 

John used a stick to make a hole in the soil for us. 

We put our seeds in the holes.

 

We all worked together and did a great job!

Next John helped us to use a rake to cover the seeds in soil!

We put our scarecrow in the raised bed to watch over our seeds. 

We hope they grow really tall just like the one in the story of Jack and the beanstalk!

Catch me if you can!

We have been using beanbags to practice our throwing, catching, passing and balancing skills. 

We balanced the beanbags on our heads, shoulders, knees and toes. We balanced the beanbags on our chests, backs, elbows and hands. Some of them were easier than others. 

We practiced throwing the beanbags up in the air and catching them in our hands. We tried it using one hand only. We also tried to throw the beanbag up and clap 3 times before we caught it... it was really hard!!

We also practiced throwing the beanbags at a target (hula hoops!)

 

Morning Maths!

The first thing we do each day is work on our maths skills! We work at stations to complete tasks like.....

Playing the caterpillar ordering game on the interactive whiteboard!

Making Sets by rolling the dice and putting spots on our ladybirds!

 

Putting together number jigsaws!

 

Using playdough to make sets of stars for our rockets!!

Making patterns with pegs and pegboards!

Making patterns using cubes!

We are really becoming marvelous mathematicians!!

Gruffalo? What's a Gruffalo?

He has terrible tusks and terrible claws and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws…

He has knobbly knees and turn-out toes and a poisonous wart at the end of his nose…

His eyes are orange and his tongue is black. He has purple prickles all over his back……

He’s the GRUFFALO!

We read ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson. We really enjoyed listening to and retelling the story. We used stick puppets to retell the story in our small world play!

We drew fantastic pictures of the Gruffalo and the other animals in the story! We used our books to help us get the details just right!!

We made a snake,  wings for the owl, tails for the mouse and fox, claws for the gruffalos paw and filled in the missing parts of the gruffalos face using play dough!

       

You can hear the story of the Gruffalo here!!