We created a castle for the giant, added beautiful flowers in flower boxes and decorated the castle to make it colourful. We hope he loves the castle.
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A visitor came to see us…
We had a visitor come to Class 1 during the night, leaving footprints and a letter in our room. We replied to his letter and compared how big our feet are against the giant’s footprints.
Reception, I’ll blow your house down!
After the Big Bad Wolf delivered materials to our class for us to build houses, he forgot the sticks so we needed to go on a stick hunt of our own. We loved acting out the story of ‘TheThree Little Pigs’ and making houses of our own. The straw came in handy when we...
When Goldilocks Came to the House of the bears….
This week's key text is Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The nursery children followed instructions to make the most delicious porridge to share in the hall after we practised the Goldilocks Song. They wanted to share the song they have learnt with the reception...
Who ate Miss Salloway’s lunch?!
We arrived back into our classroom after play time to find that someone had eaten Miss Salloway’s delicious lunch! We decided to use clues to write predictions about who we thought had been into our classroom. We then came up with ideas to stop our packed lunches from...
Acting out the story
We had a wonderful morning acting out the story of The Smartest Giant in Town, thinking about the emotions of the characters and what they were doing. .
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Our Giant’s delivery
We had an exciting delivery into class of the giant’s clothes and a parcel including a letter and our book ‘The Smartest Giant in Town’. We have loved trying on the giant’s clothes and seeing how big they are.
Summer Reading Challenge – Marvellous Makers
Marvellous Makers has arrived! The Summer Reading Challenge launched on Saturday 6th July. Children can join up, at any of the Gateshead Libraries. It is simple to join Visit your local library, sign up for a library ticket for FREE! Ask to join the Summer Reading...
Lady with the Lamp
We have really enjoyed learning about Florence Nightingale in History and English. We created freeze frames to represent important events that happened in her life. We used all the information we have learned to write a fact life all about her life and why she was...