This term we will be looking at lots of traditional tales and stories and thinking about them in different ways. 

We are doing this through our main story "The Jolly Postman" by Janet and Allan Ahlberg 

 

We started the week think about post people, their job role, different types of mail and how our mail gets to us! 
We designed our own stamps, role played a post office, made a street for the post to be delivered, and drew and wrote where they Jolly postman might go! 

Next we thought about what we had done over the Easter holidays, and designed a postcard to show either somewhere we had been, or something we had done. We then wrote a message for the other side.
We all tried so hard on this activity, and had amazing ideas and experiences that we shared with one another! 
 

We explored the story of Goldilocks and the 3 bears, and Hansel and Gretel to give us the knowledge who the next letters might be for in the book! 
We read Cinderellas small story book, and then all got very involved in making castles, crowns, and shops, as well as playing skittles to write our number bonds to 10!

Throughout Explorer week, when we were not at the bungalow, we were taking part in drawing club for Jack and the Beanstalk! 

Our 'wow' words for the week were: 

We took part in role play with the Giants castle, retold the story in small world, threaded "strings" on harps, and built castles too!

We then looked at the story of Jack and the beanstalk more in-depth, thinking about the beginning middle and end, imagining what we might see at the top of the beanstalk. 
We then looked at the story from the perspective of the Giant, reading "Trust me, Jacks beanstalk stinks!" 
We were already conflicted about Jack stealing, even if he was poor, but this really cemented our opinion that Jack is not nice! As a result we made wanted posters for Jack, writing the reason we wanted him! We also looked at farming now and in the past, as well as measuring our footprints in relation to the giants, made the giants castle, and a home for us, making a drainpipe 'beanstalk' to get water down from the 'clouds' to Jacks farm, and farm small world play. 
 

We then re-embarked on Drawing club with the story of 'Little Red Riding Hood'! Our wow words for the week are: 

We have had a great time re-enacting the story outside, retelling it in the puppet theatre and small world trays and ordering the story! 
Our first drawing club was the wolf, and we had some marvellous drawing of the big bad wolf, designed disguises for him to wear, and traps to catch him! 
 

 

Our next story was Hansel and Gretel. We have really honed our skills on features of a traditional tale, and that there are different versions because they were written so long ago. We role played being Hansel and Gretel in the gingerbread house, collated our own houses, re-enacted the story in role play, made out own cages and traps, and thought about stranger danger. 
We also looked at how the story was made up, thinking of what happened first, next, then and finally to retell and rewrite the story!