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The Big Bad Wolf

Today, we were learning about adjectives. We learned that they are words which we use to describe things.  We can use them to make our stories much more interesting.

We brainstormed as many adjectives as we could to describe the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood. Mrs Stewart added them to the whiteboard so we could use them in our writing.

Here are a few of our descriptions…

“Watch out for the wolf because he eats Grannies with his sharp, yellow teeth. He has a black and white furry body. He has pointy ears that are good at hearing you walking in the forest. So be careful!”  Kyle

 

Stay away from the forest.  A big, bad wolf lives there.  He has sharp yellow teeth and a big, bushy tail.  He bites his toenails and they go all ragged.  His ears are very pointy.  He has a scary face.  He likes to jump out and eat you.”   Madison

 

Don’t go into the forest.  There is a wolf in there.  He is very sneaky so watch every step you take because it might be the wolf’s footprint.  He looks very hairy and has sharp, pointy teeth.  He will try to eat you if he sees you.”   Emily

Don’t go near the forest because if you do a big bad wolf will run after you.  The wolf’s smelly feet are as smelly as a garbage bin.  The wolf is furious because he is hungry.”  Ben

 

Goldilocks

The Dragon visited us last night and left us some new things. All our “Jack and the Beanstalk” books have been replaced by “Goldilocks and the 3 Bears.” He also left us some new puppets and masks to play with!

There was also another surprise. Our reading area has turned into a castle with a dragon and a Frog Prince!

We read the Goldilocks big book. Then, some of us put pictures of the story in order and wrote sentences to match. Others wrote newspaper articles. We had to answer the questions who, what, when and where when we wrote them.

What is your favourite Fairytale?

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.

Seasonal Reading

Here are some of the books we have been reading over the last week.

Mrs Stewart's favourite!

We really liked this story of a very naughty boy.

The last book is a really lovely retelling of the Christmas story, told from the innkeeper’s point of view.

We also looked at a powerpoint story and talked about the Nativity play which we performed earlier in the week.

We discussed how the same story can be told in different ways and from different points of view.