By Mrs Russell

The turnips that we planted in the spring time were growing very big and one of the children commented

“it’s like the story of the big turnip that was pulled by the dog and man and boy and girl”

Some of the children hadn’t heard the story so we read the story together. We also watched a video of the story.

At last the time came when our enormous turnip was ready to pull up.

“We are going to need a lot of children to pull up our turnip.”

We later made turnip soup and also tried some mashed turnip.

Planting and growing our own vegetables helps us build our understanding of where our food comes from.

We were also developing our early literacy skills as we compared our own experience to the story.