We have read and watched the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. We had fun miming the story. It has been interesting to see how challenging it can be to act out a story in silence. We all enjoyed it and thought we managed to communicate a lot using our body and facial expressions...take a peek
Jack's mother is not happy about that magic beans deal...
Another unhappy mummy, 'What are these beans about?' she seems to think...
Jack is happy to see a giant beanstalk has grown near the cottage.
The end of the giant. He is never coming back again!
'Hmm, not a happy customer, really? A cow for five beans?'
On a different front, children have learnt new games which we played happily outdoor under the sun.
Name ball
Children stood in a circle with a player in the middle who would throw the ball up in the air and call out the name of another player. That child had to catch the ball before it bounced more than once.
Very challenging!
Got it!
The tool box has come out and children have shown incredible awareness of risks involved when handling real tools and worked very sensibly.
'I'm fixing the blender'
'I've made a table look!'
In maths, we worked on comparing numbers. We looked at a selection of magic beans and without counting (if possible) we arranged them into piles of those with the most and those with the least number of beans.
Another sandpit creation this week, we have recreated Jack and the Beanstalk and used the small world characters to retell the story.
We are still making sure that we have plenty of time for independent learning and exploration too. Here a group of us made a fantastic ball game where we had to throw the balls into the bread crates which all had different scores in them. We took it in turns to throw the balls, record a tally and announce who was winning at the end of each round. Well done everyone, even Mrs Webb had to have a go to see if she could beat anyone's score.
'And the winner is...?'
We have also used Jacks magic beans to help us with some adding this week...
We had a fantastic PE session with Mr Knights this week, following on from last week we used our new throwing and catching skills to start the groundwork for a game of rounders.
Super skills everyone, well done!
A very exciting end to the week; Martha's Dad came in to help us put the flowers on our lovely wall that he had painted for us earlier in the year.
Everybody was very excited to have their turn.
The end result...super!
Thank you very much to Ben for giving up your time, from everyone in Class 1.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
