The Aesop Fable 'The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse' has really inspired us these last two weeks. We have made giant maps of the town and countryside where Town and Country Mice live. We have acted out the story using stick puppets, to develop our story telling skills and then last Thursday Mrs Thompson came into Class 2 with a package that she said had been delivered by a mouse!!! We soon found out that it was from Country Mouse wanting our help to try out some recipes for Town Mouse and helping her to make up some Menus for Afternoon Tea. The children obliged, of course, and cooked Gruffalo Crumble - (Mr Wainwright, Miss Petts, Mrs MacMorrin and Marlene can all vouch for this being delicious!!!) blackberry and blueberry muffins, and apple and blackberry crumble. It certainly smelt delicious on Thursday and Friday in Class 2! Some children also learnt how to write recipes, using 'bossy' language.
Alice in Wonderland and the story of The Great Pet Sale by Mick Inkpen helped us develop our 'Thinking Things Through' and counting skills with money.
Finally, our Boxes of Hope inspired by the story of Pandora's Box are beginning to take shape and we have made some little figures of Hope to go inside them.
P.S. Thank you for all the donations of Painting Shirts we have recieved.
Here are some pictures to give you a 'flavour' of our work................
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| Once upon a time ......... |
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| Careful cutting to make a stick puppet |
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| Drawing different buildings on our map |
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| Da - dah! |
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| Lastly the children added labels to their maps |
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| We have to follow the recipe Country Mouse has sent us for Gruffalo Crumble! |
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| Making some bright, colourful, exciting menus for Afternoon Tea |
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| We need five bananas for Gruffalo Crumble |
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Making sure we have everything ready to cook blackberry muffins!
How much is half of 250grams?! |
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| Reading the recipe carefully and follow the instructions |
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| Careful! |
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| I think that's got to be enough bananas, surely?! |
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| Looking good! |
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| Ooops! |
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| They look delicious! |
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| Very yummy, indeed! |
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| Delicious warm! |
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| Careful counting for buying pets |
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| Hope! |
Pool class 2. You're amazing! If you can cook you've got a skill for life and who does t like "Gruffalo Crumble".
ReplyDeleteI bet all your mums and dads want you to make it at home now?
Skills in cooking and counting money and feeding your teachers. Wow, you could give your teachers a day off at this rate.
Emmie, you really look like an adorable cheeky monkey with all those bananas at your disposal.
Top work troopers.
I wish I had the Gruffalo Crumble for my dessert today, it was so yummy!!
ReplyDeleteI wish I had the Gruffalo Crumble for my dessert today, it was so yummy!!
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