Today we had a very exciting visit from Chloe's Mobile Farm where we met some beautiful animals...
Including seven day old Rusty...
Daisy the duck, who layed an egg especially for us...
and her feathered friends...
Nellie, a seven month old spaniel...
and the softest rabbits and guinea pigs you've ever touched...
Thank-you Chloe, we can't wait for you and your animal friends to visit us again soon.
For the past few weeks we have been working around the fairytale, Little Red Riding Hood.
We started by orally learning the story, through the Talk for Writing approach, adding actions for connectives to support our story telling language....
Once upon a time
After that 
Suddenly
Finally
We added our own actions for the main characters...
Grandma 
Wolf
Little Red Riding Hood
Learning to tell the story was a lot of fun, and it helped us to create a story map...
Bursting with our own ideas we took to creating our own versions of Little Red Riding Hood. First we talked through our ideas, then we altered our story maps with our innovative ideas...
After rehearsing our own story orally, using our story maps, we had a go at writing our very own story ...
Finally, we received a letter from a family of wolves, who were very upset that they were always the bad guys in stories and asking for our help...
Together, we created a Little Red Riding Hood story that they would enjoy listening to, and it went something like this...
Once upon a time there lived a girl called Little Red Riding Hood. One day her mum asked her to take a basket of fruit to Grandma's house because she was poorly. As she was leaving her mum called out "Don't talk to strangers and stay on the path".
Little Red Riding Hood skipped along the path but became distracted by some beautiful yellow primroses underneath an old oak tree. Little Red Riding Hood wandered off the path to pick some. Just as she was bending down to pick the primroses, she heard a voice behind her "Where are you going to on this fine day?" Little Red Riding Hood replied "I'm taking this basket of fruit and flowers to my Grandma who is poorly" "Can I come with you?" asked the wolf "I am very friendly".
So, Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf set off down the path to Grandma's house. When they got to the house they knocked on the door and a voice called out "Come in my dear". Grandma was in the kitchen boiling the kettle and when she turned around she saw the wolf!
"This is my friend, wolf" said Little Red Riding Hood.
"Oh, wolf, what hairy arms you have" said Grandma. "All the better to be stroked with" replied the wolf.
"Oh, wolf, what sharp claws you have" "All the better to scratch your itches with".
"Oh wolf, what big paws you have", "All the better to give big hugs with" said the wolf smiling, and they all had a big hug.
Finally, they sat down together for a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake.
The End
We have had an exciting week exploring the world of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths...
We investigated forces, creating our own firefighter hose and exploring how we could make the water in our hose reach further distances...
We looked at lego rainbow designs and worked out how to create our favourite...
We designed and built bridges, using only play dough and pasta, so that the train to continue on its journey...
We created and used our own balance scales and worked on our own representations of number rhymes...
And we bravely presented our own experiments to the rest of the school and guest speakers...
A tremendous and exciting week had by all.
It might only have been a four day week, but we have certainly packed a lot in...
We enjoyed making play dough pancakes and deciding which delicious (and some a little unusual) ingredients we were going to add...
We began our new PE topic of Locomotion...
Then took to the Big Woods for some special story telling...
and had a very memorable and fun World Book Day...
Finally, to end the week, we got creative with an Artist, who introduced us to his splodge machine...
