Week Beginnig 30th April 2018

We have begun our week reading another traditional story: The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
The children have loved listening to the story and some different versions of it. We spent time talking about the characters, what they look like, how they behave etc. and have been writing “Wow” words to describe them in our writing.

In PE we played a new game: The Three Billy Goats Gruff...hmmm I wonder why...?
A child had to pretend to be the troll (wearing a high visibility jacket). Small, medium and large mats were scattered around the hall and served as safe islands for all the goats. The Billy goats were not allowed to spend more than 5 seconds on the safe islands and had to run around the area trying to avoid the hungry troll...

 

A frantic PE session but enjoyed by all.

Some of us took up the challenge of building a safe bridge for the three Billy goats in our tuff spot.

 

'We need steps for the goats to get on the bridge'.

'This bridge needs steps too'

Three happy goats.

But wait they could fall off the sides!!

 

 

No problema, safety sides added onto the bridge to keep our friends super safe. Great job!

 

At some point during the week children got very excited as they found FAIRY DUST.

They all reassured us it is from the good fairies and once rubbed on our hands you should be able to fly.

As you can see lots of children in class one are keen to fly. Some suggested they might even fly to Peppa Pig World. Where would you go, we wonder??

 

 

Phonics and Group 2 children have been working hard on their assessment this week.

Tricky words? Not too tricky for us!

 

A bit of drama later in the week showed that the children have taken on board the plot of the story and are well and truly able to share this with an audience.

'Who's that trip trapping over my bridge?'  roared the troll.

 

 

The Billy goats have even helped us with some addition, subtraction and ordering in maths too.

Out in the sunshine, I bet the goats would prefer the lovely green field on the left hand side, rather than the sandy one on the right.

We have been working on a new concept in maths today, halving.  The Numicon has helped us to see how to share numbers into halves and identify those that do and those that do not.

Congratulations to Amelia this week, our Golden Book winner for super independent writing in class.

 

Have a lovely weekend everyone and remember, Monday is bank holiday.