TELL ME YOUR FAVOURITE STORY
This week we are exploring the big idea questions:
What is your favourite story?
Who is your favourite character?
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This week we are exploring the big idea questions:
What is your favourite story?
Who is your favourite character?
This week we are exploring the big idea questions:
What is a villain?
What does an Author do?
This week our big questions are:-
Can you describe the setting?
Can you tell me a story?
This week the big questions are:
Can you tell me about a character?
How might you start or end a story?
This half-term we are so excited about introducing the children to the world of fairy tales and classic stories. Over the half term, we will be looking at a range of books and eventually, this will lead us to creating our very own stories. We will be focussing really closely on the story 'The Elves and the Shoemaker' and even learning how to retell this all by ourselves.
Here is an overview of the big ideas for this half-term. We will be focussing on a couple each week and our weekly vocabulary will be linked to them.
This week we are exploring the big idea questions:
We will be sharing these wonderful stories with the children to help us explore these questions:
Thank you for your continued support 😊
This week, we will be exploring the big idea questions:
We will be sharing and talking about the children's 'celebration' photos that you have sent in on Tapestry - big thank you to everyone that has done this, it will make it more 'real' for the children 😊
We will be sharing these wonderful stories to help discuss our big idea questions:
This week we will be exploring the big idea questions:
This week we are exploring the big idea questions:
We will be sharing these wonderful stories:
We will be learning all about Diwali, the Festival of light that is celebrated by Hindus and Sikhs all over the world. We will be sharing the stories above and finding out about the story of Rama and Sita. We will be making diva lamps, rangoli patterns and paper lanterns. We will be trying some special food and dancing to Diwali celebration music!
We will be singing along to this song:
Thank you for your continued support 😊
A new half-term and a new big idea to explore...
We will be looking at different celebrations and what the children celebrate with their families at home. We will be using celebrations to transport us into the lives of people and communities around the world, discussing and sharing experiences of different celebrations including: Halloween, Bonfire Night, Birthdays, Diwali, Hanukkah, Weddings, Christmas - and more! We will be revisiting the things that make us unique and will do this through the ways in which people celebrate special events in different ways.
In the lead up to Christmas, we will look at the traditions of Christmas and the Christmas nativity. We will learn about the celebration and even work in our elves’ workshop, helping to wrap presents and make Christmas decorations to put up around the classroom!
To help bring our topic to life and make it more relevant to the children, please share photos of themselves/family at a celebration which is special to them. These can be uploaded to tapestry or physical photos. We will print these off/photocopy them to share and discuss with the children alongside making a display in the classroom. Please make sure these are sent to us by Friday 10th November. Thank you for your continued support, it really is appreciated! 😊
Supporting your child at home
Last week, the children absolutely loved making and baking their own bread rolls (just like the Little Red Hen!)
Due to their excitement... We thought we would embrace the baking spirit and set a half-term challenge to bake something together. This could be a box mix, scones, cookies, cupcakes, bread... It can be absolutely anything... As long as it's delicious!
This will also help bring our topic to life when we are back at school... Our new big idea will be 'Let's Celebrate' where we will be talking about different celebrations- food and baking are often an integral part of any celebration! Our 'Talk for Writing' story for the term will be 'The Gingerbread Man', which also links perfectly to baking!
Please send photos of your baked goodies to us on Tapestry - the children can then share these in our show and tell sessions when we are back in school on Monday 6th November.
Also, if you have any photos of celebrations you've had as a family, it would be great to share these next half-term too (Birthdays, Halloween, Christmas, Christenings, Lunar New Year, Weddings, Bonfire Night etc).
Big thanks for your continued support, and we hope you all have a wonderful half-term... Hopefully it will stop raining!!
And finally... HAPPY BAKING! 🍰
We are coming to the end of our 'We are all Superheroes' topic, with just a couple of weeks left!
The children have really enjoyed it and it was lovely to hear what superpowers they would like to have ... From invisibility and super strength to pink power! They really do have the best imaginations.
This week we are sharing the 'Supertato' stories and exploring our big idea question:
As well as talking about this question in detail... We will be making our own Supertato characters, thinking of ways that we could trap the evil pea and making some delicious bread rolls... Just like the Little Red Hen in our talk for write story!
Have a listen to one of the Supertato stories that we will be sharing:
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