Our last traditional tale book for the half
term was the Little Red Hen.
The children have made ‘red hens’ from
paper plates, exploring circles and semi circles and the concept of whole and
half. We have heard lovely descriptive language as they talked about the
different materials they were using for decoration.
We revisited wind power investigating windmills,
using non fiction books and our computers at home as a source of information.
We had to problem solve to make sure the vanes of our windmill would rotate
once we’d fixed them. Split pins were very useful but sellotape and glue didn’t
work.
We went shopping to the market and tried
lots of different types of bread. We even made our own in the bread machine.
This led to discussions on electricity, plugs and sockets and how the heat of
the toaster changes bread into toast.
Over the week we have been looking for ‘red
hen helpers’, children who have been busy helping others have been rewarded with
golden eggs laid by the little red hen.
At the end of the story the little red hen
doesn’t share the bread. The Poppets children decided she should have shared
the bread because that would have been fair.
We finished our topic creating our own
Little Red Hen bakers shop. We explored number making number labels and using
money.
Some of our children have shown interest in
telling the time. We are using our large Poppets clock to reinforce number work
reading numbers to 12 and focusing on ‘O’clocks’ which are meaningful to the
children. 10 O’clock we get ready for snack, 12 O’clock
some Mummies come and 3 O’clock is home time and the end of the day.
One of our children made the link to the
story ‘Rosies walk’, another lovely story about a hen which you might like to
share with your children at home.