We continued to read different version of “Jack and the Beanstalk” this week but we are also reading and looking at other Fairytales too.
On Friday we read the story of “The Frog Prince” and made our own from paper plates.
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Jack and the Beanstalk Maths
As well as our Dragon challenge, we have been doing lots of other Jack and the Beanstalk related measuring activities this week.
We estimated how many of the Giant’s boots it would take to cross from one side of the gym to the other. Then we went into the gym to find the actual answer. We had to remember to line up the boots heel to toe and not to leave any spaces.
We used our Giant’s boots to find things that were longer, smaller or the same size. We drew and labelled the things we found in our special books. We visited the nursery in groups to measure things in there.
After that, we made beanstalk pictures with beanstalks that were longer, shorter or the same size as the boot.
On Friday, we used special “bean” rulers to measure things around the class. The rulers were only 10 “beans” long so we used two for things that were a wee bit longer.
Beanstalk Animation
We have been making Beanstalk animations in our ICT lessons.
We used a site called ABCya! This is also a great site for lots of other lerning activities and games.
Mrs Stewart wanted to put our animations of the blog to show you but they won’t play on the site. You can click on the link and trying making one yourself at home.
They are animated gifs. Perhaps someone who is reading this can give us some advice so we can show you our fantastic animations?
Dragon Maths Challenge – Estimation
On Wednesday, we were all very excited to find the Dragon had left us another letter and a present!
In his letter, the dragon told us that he had heard that we are learning about measurement in maths, and that he wanted to set us a challenge.
He sent us some sheets of paper with an outline of the Giant’s hand. In the bags were magic beans.
First, we had to ESTIMATE how many beans would fit on the Giant’s palm (we knew from our Halloween maths that an estimate is a sensible guess). We had to write down our estimates in pen so we could not change them later!
Then we arranged our magic beans on the Giant’s palm to find out the actual number. Finally, we worked out the difference between our estimates and the actual number, using our calculators.
After that, we drew the outline of our own hand on the Giant’s and did the same again, only for our hand this time.
We really enjoyed the Dragon’s challenge and hope he will send us some more.
Today’s Dragon Mail
The Dragon wrote to let us know that he loved the posters that we made yesterday.
We are trying to make our beanstalk bigger. We made some more leaves when we had finished our maths and cut them out so they are ready to be added to the beanstalk.
Mrs Bailey brought us in some more books. One of them is called “Daft Jack and the Bean Stack.” We are about half way through it and we are really enjoying it. We think it is quite funny.
We talked about the main features of a book cover. We looked at the different “Jack” stories that we have in class and discussed what we liked about them and why.
We designed our own book covers.
In the afternoon we tried acting out parts of the story using mime. Then we worked in small groups and improvised and added some dialogue to our scene. We learned that we have to use nice loud voices and remember to face our audience when we are performing.
Fairyland
Today, something vey exciting happened. We opened the classroom door and found a trail of sparkly glitter leading to a letter on the table.
Some of us thought it might be from Santa and others thought it was from the Easter Bunny!
Well … we were all wrong! The letter was from a Dragon! His fairytale home has disappeared and he and all his fairytale friends have no homes. In his letter, the dragon asked us if we could rebuild Fairyland in our classroom and read lots of Fairytales as well. Of course we were very excited.
We thought we might have to have a wee break from our usual work for while, so we asked Mr Haxton if that would be ok. He agreed that we had a very important job to do!
First of all, we wrote back to the dragon.
After playtime, we read “Jack and the Beanstalk.” Mrs Stewart told us that sometimes the same story can be told in different ways. We are going to look at different versions of fairytales.
We started work on a beanstalk for Jack. We painted, sponged, printed and drew leaves with crayons and pastels, using lots of different shades of green. The beanstalk hs started to grow around our classroom door and into the classroom.
We wonder when the dragon will visit us next …
