Sorry we haven’t posted for a couple of weeks. The past three weeks we have been really getting into our new story for the half term which is ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson.

‘He has terrible tusks, and terrible claws and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws. He has knobbly knees, and turned-out toes and a poisonous wart at the end of his nose. His eyes are orange, his tongue is black, and he has purple prickles all over his back.’

We have been thinking about the characters and learning about the journey the little mouse goes on throughout the story.

In PE we have been using different movements for each character in the story and moving around the hall depending on who we are to create some excellent dances. In Art and DT we have been making character puppets and a Gruffalo house, which we have then used to retell parts of the story and create shadow puppets with. We have also made a fantastic Gruffalo display in class which we will take a photo of and upload soon.

We made some yummy purple prickled pancakes and a Gruffalo mud pie in cooking. We have also enjoyed going on Gruffalo trails around school using clues to find the different characters and Gruffalo body parts.

The children have worked incredibly hard over the last few weeks and we are so proud of every single one of them.