Welcome to Anston Greenlands Primary School

We went on an a little adventure in our school grounds. We went on a bug hunt.

We used nets to sweep for them.

We then used tubs to place them in to take a closer look and try and identify them.

We also took a closer look at our bug hotel. We managed to find quite a few spiders and ladybirds in here.

We have been working in small groups to draw butterflies using chalk.

Just look at some of our amazing work!

Today we kicked off our new topic ‘It’s an Adventure’ with our ‘WOW’ day.

The children brought a teddy bear/soft toy into school; we then went and listened to the story ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ in our forest area. The children were very good at retelling the repetitive parts of the story. We then revisited adjectives and identified these in the book so that we could go back to class to write words to describe our teddies/soft toys.

We then went and played some games and sang some teddy bear songs.

We then finished our day off by going on a number bear hunt. Whenever we found a bear with a number on, we then had to double it. We were brilliant at this!

After this, we went and took our teddies/soft toys on an adventure by completing a mini assault course with them. Travelling over, under, in and across things. We talked about how in the story they use some of this language too.

This half term we have based our learning around two traditional stories, as we particularly wanted to focus on using ‘Talk for Writing’. This was developed by a man called Pie Corbett.

There are three stages of talk for writing – Imitation, Innovation and Invention/Independent Application) at the Foundation Stage.

The children loved learning the actions for the key conjunctions for our stories – ‘the imitation stage’. Once they were ready  we filmed these for parents/carers to come and view at our final event – ‘The Cinema’. We grew our own beanstalks, made gingerbread men and made our own popcorn pots for the event.

 

We also gave ‘the innovation stage’ a go with one of the stories, ‘The Gingerbread Man’. The children worked on changing the ending of this story. We are planning to use TFW again for our next topic, and now we have become familiar with the process we will be planning to also work on ‘the invention/independent application stage’.

We hope you enjoy watching our story telling films.

Jack and the Beanstalk – At the start of this film we demonstrate some of the conjunctions we used to help us retell the story.

The Gingerbread Man

We have learnt that you can design lots of things before you begin to make it.

We drew our gingerbread men designs first, and then used these to decorate our gingerbread men.