Today we read Arlo, The lion who couldn’t sleep.

Arlo can’t fall asleep, he just can’t get comfortable. He meets an owl who sings him a relaxing song:

Think about the places where you’d like to be,

the things that you’d do there and what you might see.

Relax your whole body, slow your breathing right down,

imagine you’re sinking into the soft ground.

Today as we were listening to the words we felt ourselves feeling very sleepy and some of us even started yawning! We turned the lights off and had a little lie down and found the owl’s wise words helped us relax!

We talked about how grumpy we can be when we don’t get enough sleep and how cheerful we are (or not!) in the morning.

We then drew a black pen picture of a lion and together retold the story of Arlo and had a try at writing it. In our play we made beds and dens for Arlo.

Here are some photos from today: