Long, long ago in the Dreamtime...

Today Warhol created their own Aboriginal stories based on 'How the Kangaroo got its Tail'. They used their oracy skills to rehearse the stories before telling them around a 'campfire'. The children wrote some wonderful stories and this afternoon some even created digital storybooks complete with narration and animation!

Mr Wolf sick of his bad reputation!

 

In year three, we have been learning about the true story of the three little pigs as told by the "big, bad wolf" himself, Mr A Wolf. 

After reading his story, we have discussed whether Mr Wolf is truly guilty. Mr Wolf begins his tale baking a cake for his grandma, Mr Wolf has a terrible cold and is in desperate need of a cup of sugar. We see him meet the three little pigs and the impact his awful cold has upon the other characters.  

We loved the story and were keen to meet this infamous character to ask him some burning questions. The children came up with some fantastic questions such as "Do you think of yourself as a criminal for destroying the houses?" and "Why didn't you go to the shops to get sugar instead of bothering your neighbours?"

We decided that Mr Wolf isn't really big and bad, but just had a terrible cold and couldn't say no to a nice ham lunch! Here are some examples of the narratives we began to write this week: 

Year 1 Newsletter

 Well, Year 1 have done us so proud with their determined attitude towards their learning.  All the children learning at home and those learning in school. The children have stepped up to all the different tasks they have been challenged with and we are so impressed by the standard of work we have seen. You are amazing Year 1, you should be very proud of yourselves!  We would like to send a huge thank you to all the parents and carers too.  You are supporting your children brilliantly!  Thank you for all you are doing to ensure your children achieve the best they can. 

Here are some glimpses of the wonderful work that has been going on over the past two weeks.

In English, we have been describing tortoises with adjectives and learning to retell the African traditional tale, How Tortoise Got His Shell, using a story map and actions!  The videos that we have seen have been a joy to watch!  You are incredible storytellers!

 

Poppy-Rose's sentences about tortoises

Stella retold the story How The Tortoise Got His Shell with wonderful expression, remembering all the punctuation too!

As well as completing the daily maths activities, some children have also had a go at some tricky maths challenges too!

              Eva's number bonds challenge                                  Josh's shape challenge

  

Jumping into our new topic about Africa, we asked the children if they would like to live there.

Here are a couple of their answers!

 

It's a YES from Ariana                              and a NO from Hector!

 

In art, the children have been exploring different paper collage techniques such as tearing and cutting.  Radley produced a fantastic grid full of examples of the different things you can do when tearing and cutting paper!

We know the children are missing each other and so they also had a task to get in touch with a friend!  Some children had a great time zooming and facetiming each other!  

Others made cards and wrote letters. 

'Good friends are like stars.  You may not always see them, but they are always there.'

  

                Stella made a card for Roya                                     Miri write a letter for Leelah

                                                        Alexandra wrote a letter for Beth.

Milla wrote a lovely letter to the whole of Year 1!