This week in F2, we have started our story, The 3 Billy Goats Gruff.
First, we read the book together, lots of us were familiar with it and loved joining in, especially with the “who’s that trip-trapping over my bridge?”
Next, we had great fun acting out the story…Mrs. Buss was the troll, she was very scary!
Finally, we read the story again, this time using signifiers to help to retell the story.
In literacy we have been sequencing the story, drawing a map of the story and adding dictated sentences (this is when we make up a sentence together, using the correct structure, including capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.)
In maths, we have been learning our teen numbers. We know that a teen number always has one set of ten, so we can put that in our head and count on.
In PE we took part in team games, taking turns and cheering our team members on.
In RE we found out that Buddhism is one of the largest religions of the world, it is based what Buddha taught people and they live by 5 important rules. Not lying or stealing are two of them, we discussed why these are important to our lives too.
We also learnt about the famous artist Wassily Kandinsky. He was born in Russia in 1866 and many people believe he was the first abstract painter. He didn’t paint objects and instead painted colours and shapes, often listening to music so he could try to paint what he heard and felt … next week we will be embracing our creativity and painting in the style of Kandinsky.
As always, we have spent lots of time learning and discovering outdoors…weeding and watering our tomato plants that have started to grow, checking our bug hotel for creatures, making troll bridges and a feast for the goats in the mud kitchen.
