Over the last few weeks during group time we have been focusing on the following stories Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Hickory Dickory Dock, The Three Billy Goats Gruff and Mr Wolf’s Pancakes; reading, discussing and completing activities relating to them.
For Cinderella we read a few varieties of the story discussing what was similar and different. We looked at our shoes describing them e.g. size, colour, Velcro, laces etc. We took turns to talk and listen. We assessed our self-help skills by taking off and putting on our shoes (we all managed this). We talked about the chores we helped our family with. Mr Wolf’s Pancakes, we read the story, discussed all the familar characters we met in the story. We had to predict what would happen at the end of the story. We made our own frying pans and pancakes to toss. We sang songs and rhymes from the story. We played the game What’s the time Mr wolf? Hickory Dickory Dock; we said the rhyme adding our own rhyming verses. We made clocks, discussing time, clock face, hands, numbers, etc. We talked about our daily routine and worked with a learning partner to put our day in order. We talked about when we would use clocks, timers, watches, calendars etc. The Three Billy Goats Gruff; We read the story through talking about the pictures. We then re-told the story using puppets and repeating the refains from the story. “Who’s that trip trapping over my bridge?” We discussed sizes small, medium and big. We measured ourselves to see who was the tallest and smallest in our groups. We also used the measure worms to arrange by size. Little Red Riding Hood; We read the story, discussing what was happening. We re-told the story using puppets. We read different versions of the same story, discussing the differences and similarities. We identified our own name and found the initial letter of our names. We played the game what’s the time Mr Wolf.