In Primary 2/1 this week we have read the story of the enormous turnip.  We loved the ending when the tiny, little mouse helped to pull out the enormous turnip.  We all agree that working together can be a great way to solve a problem! 

Please add any comments about a time you worked together. 

In class we made a wordbank of words that mean the same as enormous and also a wordbank for words that mean the same as little.

We painted pictures of gigantic whales, towers and ships and then we painted pictures of tiny butterflies and bugs.

This week in class we are reading the story of The Gingerbread Man.

For home learning this week one of your tasks is to talk about:

• Why you think the gingerbread man ran away?
• How did the fox trick him?
• Would you have helped him escape?

On Monday, we had lots of fun decorating yummy gingerbread men in class.  We made sure we ate them quickly before they could run away! 

Sam chose this week’s WOW word from the story and our new word is sly.  It’s a very short word but it started a great discussion about sneaky tricks and cunning plans.  Thank you Sam for spotting such an interesting word!

We had fun making a WANTED poster for the gingerbread man and had to describe him very carefully.

We also worked hard to put the story back into the right order after it was all jumbled up!  Well done everyone.

What a busy week we have had in class!  We were very excited to see that our beans started to grow over the weekend and we will keep you posted…

This week our story was The Little Red Hen so on Monday morning we made our own bread.  We were very proud of ourselves.

We tried really hard to spread the butter and jam by ourselves. 

“I loved it,” said Kelsey.  “It was delicious,” said Sam.  “I was astonished when I saw how good it was,” said Tom.

In art, we painted pictures of the cat, rat, pig and the hen.  We then made models of pigs out of pink play-do with a partner.

We all agree that it is better when we help each other and work together like the Little Red Hen had tried to do!