The Three Billy Goats Gruff

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The Dragon has not been for a little while and we were missing him. We were glad that he had visited us again last night and left us some new presents.

First of all, he left us some castle folders to decorate and to hold all the fantastic writing we have been doing.

He also left us a new fairytale – “The Three Billy Goats Gruff” – and some new puppets and mask to retell the story.

022 — Oh no! The troll wants to eat me too!

We read Jonathan Langley’s version of the story and also looked at one online.

We talked about the problem and solution in the story and made these story maps.

In the afternoon we made some road signs, using Publisher, to warn the trolls away from the bridge (or around the school!).

Superstar Spelling

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The Superstars have been producing some fantastic work as part of their creative spelling challenge. Here is some of their recent work completed at home.

009 — A lovely picture with the spelling words hidden in it.

004 — A dragon with a story using our spelling words.

Wolf’s Magnificent Master Plan

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Today was the Superstar’s turn to do an assembly in front of the whole school.

We decided to do a drama presentation of one of the favourite books we have read in class – “Wolf’s Magnificent Master Plan” by Melanie Williamson.

The book tells the story of a wolf who needs some new teeth. He hatches a plan to hypnotise lambs into using their own wool to knit jumpers, and then he plans to sell them in his shop to get lots of money. With the money, the wolf plans to buy new teeth and ….

You will need to read the book to find out!! Needless to say, the lambs have a cunning plan too!!!

Most of us were lambs in the play so we made ourselves some lamb headbands earlier in the week.

Our narrators did an excellent job.

Our wolf was magnificent!

We all worked really hard and did a brilliant job on the day.

A special thank you to all the mums and dads and grannies who did a wee bit of knitting and provided knitting needles and wool.

Baaa!

Goldilocks and the Three Bears Writing

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We have been doing lots of writing projects for the latest fairytale that the Dragon sent us.

We created some “Wanted” posters for that naughty girl Goldilocks. They can be seen around the school at the moment.

020 — The reward for finding Goldilocks is 5 pence.

We had to try to think of different places where Goldilocks might have been seen last. Two suggestions were at the honey shop and at the hairdressers!

We wrote newspaper articles to report the very serious crime that had taken place at the 3 Bear’s house. We had to think about the questions who, when, where and what when we were writing them.

Some of us sequenced the story and wrote sentences to match.

The Superstars have also written recipes for the 3 Bear’s porridge. This is the first time we have written instructions this year but we did a great job.

Here is our writing wall in the classroom. Can you spot the porridge bowls we made last week?

Superstar of the Week

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Well done. Keep up the good work!

Mr Wolf and the Three Bears

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During the week we read another of Mrs Stewart’s favourite books, “Mr Wolf and the Three Bears” by Jan Fearnley.

In this book, Mr Wolf invites the three Bear’s over for a party to celebrate Baby Bear’s birthday. But guess who turns up to spoil the party? Yes, that’s right, Goldilocks!!

Never mind, she gets her comeuppance in the end. Read the book and you will find out.

In the book, Mr Wolf and Grandma Wolf look on the internet, at a site called www.hungry-wolf.com to get some ideas for recipes.

We decided to try out two of them – Cheesy Snip Snaps and Daddy Bear’s Huff Puffs.