The children have been very busy this week exploring a range of mark making materials and writing their own storybooks. Our Fairy tale story focus has been “Jack and the Beanstalk”. Many of the children were involved in helping to make our display area, which included making different sized bean stalks, a story tuff tray and a castle.
Story Tuff Tray
The children were developing their fine motor skills and hand eye coordination to glue and stick different materials onto the beanstalks and to paint our magic beans rainbow colours!
The children also helped to write some of words of the main characters and events…
“Beanstalk”, “Jack”. Amelia
“Beanstalk” Rosie
“Giant” Olivia
The children enjoyed painting magic beans, using chalk and white boards to practice writing their names and drawing pictures.
Some of the children wanted to retell the story by making their own Jack and the Beanstalk story book.
The children used the book to recall characters and the story line and did a great job retelling the story! Many of the children were able to copy some of the words from the story.
Some of the children chose other fairy tales. Zoe wrote her own version of “The Gingerbread Man” and Nieve wrote “The Three little pigs”.
Rosie wrote a lovely story “The princess and the Tiger”.
There was a ghost who liked to eat heart shaped candy and play outside in a thunder and lightning storm!
Olivia wrote a story about a butterfly that likes to eat cherries and cucumber.
Lewis wrote about a green car that crashed into a fence. Jay (the main character) then had to buy a new car but he liked this one better because it was rainbow colour!
Callum and Harrison wrote story books about Sonic the Hedgehog and their adventures with Eggman!
Sophie wrote a lovely story called “Damon the Cat”.
The boys and girls were very proud of their books and enjoyed telling them that they are now authors and illustrators because they wrote a story. Some of them shared their stories with their friends, reading what they wrote to them. Well done everyone! 🙂
