Category Archives: Numeracy & Maths

Jack and the Beanstalk

We read ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’.  Some strange things have been happening in or nursery.

First we found golden eggs in strange places.

We were curious to find out more … a letter arrived from the Giant.  He asked us if we could help him to make his home more secure.

We made a plan.

 

 

We have been very creative. We worked together to construct a safe home for the Giant.

The children chose to use a challenge card to build a castle. They were able to persevere for a considerable time to measure, predict, solve problems, match shapes, compare size and balance objects. They then added extra security measures of their own…

“Bananas to make it slippy” Alexander

“Security cameras”  Rosie

“A guard with a gun … a big huge wall”  Lawson

“Ice-cream ti make it slippy”  Ewan

“Lasers, they blind the bad guys in the eyes”  Lawson

The children returned to – and added to- their project every day for over a week!