Once upon a time … there was a class of children called The Clever Kittens and they began exploring different traditional tales.
They tasted porridge with Goldilocks and the three Bears and joined in with the repeated phrases in the story e.g. “Who’s been eating my porridge?” They began learning how stories were structured by sequencing pictures from the story and other stories such as The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
The children read the Three Little Pigs story and were encouraged to understand questions linked to the story e.g. Who built the strongest house? Why didn’t the house of bricks blow down when the wolf huffed and puffed? The Clever Kittens also joined in with story, using the language “Once upon a time ….” and “The end”.
They created Little Red Riding pictures using 2d Shapes, learning their mathematical names and mathematical terms to describe them.
Parents/Carers also became involved helping the Clever Kittens to create 2d Shape pictures and constructing various 3d models of buildings inspired by their favourite traditional tale.
Finally, they celebrated the Chinese New Year of the pig by tasting Chinese food - trying hard to use chopsticks, dressed up in Chinese traditional costumes and also made Chinese fans and firework pictures. For the festivities finale the Sheffield Dance Company performed the Chinese Lion Dance. Gung Hey Fat Choi (Happy New Year).
It has been an amazing half term.
Our topic for Autumn 2 was Worldwide Tales and we invited Kuda from Zimbabwe to come and talk to us about her experiences in Africa. Kuda taught us a dance called ‘Making Melodies’, which involved us using some very unusual dance moves.
We read the books ‘Walking through the Jungle’ and ‘Handa’s Surprise’ and drew our favourite wild animal from the stories. One of the Clever kitten’s brought their pet corn snake into class and told us all about it.