F1 children listened to the description of the Gruffalo and then painted pictures of him. They had to remember his ‘terrible tusks, and terrible claws, and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws’. They tried to paint his ‘knobbly knees, and turned out toes, and a poisonous wart on the end of his nose’. Can you spot his that ‘his eyes are orange, his tongue is black’ and that ‘he has purple prickles all over his back’? What super artists.
Mr Wileman helped us plant trees today. He told us what we had to do to plant them. Although lots of the F1 children thought that they were just ‘little sticks’, we looked at the roots and talked about what they will need to help them grow. Mr Wileman also gave us special plastic ‘blankets’ to keep them warm whilst they grown. Alex couldn’t believe how small they were. Ivy N thought that when they are all in Year 6 the trees will be as tall as Mrs Silverwood!
We also saw the biggest worms we had EVER seen!
We have joined in Science Week by exploring shadows. Mrs Kenington made some fabulous puppets, from our Gruffalo story, which we have enjoyed exploring, especially during Breakfast Club. The children really enjoyed listening to and joining in with the story.
F1 had a chat about what foods they could remember from our Gruffalo story…
“Roasted fox”, said Forrest. So we tried some!
Keigha wasn’t impressed with the idea of roasted fox, “It’s disgusting, I’m not trying that!” Ivan thought differently though, “I like it!”
Warran remembered that there was also scrambled snake in the story. But what would it be like? Myles said, “I think scrambled snake would be green because the snake is green.” However, it wasn’t actually green!
“It’s so good!” said Ivy N with surprise. “It tastes like pasta,” said Violet.
Isabella remembered about the owl ice cream too. Keigha thought, “Owl ice cream would be sweet. It would be grey.”
Lottie and Luna both said, “It’s good.” Reuben thought, “It’s yummy!” Alex said, “It’s cold.”
Some of the children tried everything. Some were pleasantly surprised!
Tyler said, “Fox? Carrots!”
He was right! The teachers confessed that the roast fox was actually roast carrots, the scrambled snake was pasta and the owl ice cream was frozen yogurt.
“It wasn’t a good pretend! I thought it was roasted fox!” exclaimed Violet.
“You tricked us!” realised Phoebe.
It has been great fun though and we were really proud of everyone for trying new food.
We just loved We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. So many of the children could retell the story, using actions, and kept chanting parts of the story as they played.
We ended up going exploring out on the field to see what we can find.
There was lots of grass so we made lots of ‘swishy, swashy’ footsteps.
We found a forest and we had to be careful not to stumble and trip!
We pretended the tyres were the thick, oozey mud.
Unlike the story, we got caught in a real BEAR TRAP!
Eventually, we found the bear’s cave. Poppy saw 1 wet shiny nose!
Which meant we had to rush all the way back home through all the obstacles!
We’re never going on a Bear Hunt again!
This week F1 have been busy making ‘bear’ biscuits, inspired by our Bear Hunt story.
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To get our new topic started we went on our very own bear hunt. It was so exciting!
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F1 have been busy baking scones. They weren’t just any type of scone though, they were ‘crazy creature’ scones!
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Cheese and Chive Crazy Creature Scones
