This half term in English we have been learning about traditional tales. We drew a story map and added actions to help us learn the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’. We tried really hard to use good expression in our voices at the right times.
We learnt and practised writing plural words. We found out that most of the time you can just add ‘s’ but if the root word has a particular ending then you have to add ‘es’.
We also learnt how to add the prefix ‘un’ to words to change their meaning. For example – kind became unkind.
Then we worked together to innovate the story by changing the characters, settings and some of events. Panther’s chose to call their story ‘The Three Cold Polar Bears’, and Lion’s called theirs ‘The Three Little Minions’.
We went to Reception to share our new class story with them. They were very impressed with our wonderful writing.
This week we have been working hard to make up our own versions of the story.
How to support at home
- Visit the library and look out for other traditional tales to read. Can you find more than one version of the same story? What’s the same? different?
- Find some objects around the house. Write the singular word, then write the plural word. Do you need to add ‘s’ or ‘es’?
- Make up a new character for a story. Draw your character and then choose some adjectives to describe them.