Last week the children have enjoyed exploring ideas from the story The Gingerbread Man.
We made puppets to help us retell the story and remember the repeated chants.
We thought about why the characters in the book acted the way they did and how they would feel. We thought about how we would catch a gingerbread man and the children had lots of ideas.
"Catch him in a net!" "Make a dragger machine!" "Dig a hole."
We used the large blocks with pictures from the story, to help retell the tale of The Gingerbread Man.
We designed our own gingerbread man, deciding how we wanted to decorate him and what we would need. We drew our designs on paper then used our designs to make sure our gingerbread men looked just the same.
We have also done lots of counting buttons on the gingerbread man, matching the buttons to the dice spots and making an addition machine by rolling balls of two different colours into a basket and finding out the total by counting both sets of balls altogether.
This week we are thinking about Spring and the changes we can see. We will being going on a Spring walk in the grounds of the school and spotting signs that the weather is changing. You could talk to your child about what signs of Spring they can see as they walk to school or the park, and if you would like, your child could bring in some photos about what they have seen.
