Ashbrow School

Key Stage 1 have all been reading traditional tales over the last couple of weeks. The children have had many opportunities to dress up, use props and puppets outside with Mrs Moville and use Easi-speak microphones to record their different character voices. Ash class had a fabulous session using story telling chairs outside and identifying popular story language inside.

This week the children were set a number of problems, related to different and popular traditional tales, and they had to find their own solutions…………

Here are some of the activities they were asked to complete….

Some of the children spent a long time finding a solution to a particular job and most were determined to succeed!

The children were asked to build a house for the three pigs that was strong enough to stand up in a gentle breeze and a hurricane! (In order to make it a fair test we used a hair dryer and everyone tested their houses in different strength winds, using 2 different settings). It was great fun!

The quickest challenge was to see how long it took to climb to the top of the beanstalk (wall bars). Some of the children took more than 20 seconds but some were able to do it in under 6 seconds!

Climbing the beanstalk

One of the children’s very favourite jobs was using props and costumes in the role-play room with Mrs Moville and re-enacting some of the traditional tales they had read in class. They could choose who to be and what to use and some of them even made up their own story. The final part of this job was to write down any story language they had used.

Watch this slideshow and see if you can guess which traditional tales the children are re-enacting.

Can you think of any story language we might have used in these stories?

Click on the link below and watch this video of another group of children re-enacting a different traditional tale.

Traditional tales video

Have they used the correct story language for this traditional tale?

At the end of the day the children were asked to share anything they had learnt. Here are some of their thoughts….

“I didn’t know I could climb that high”

“I didn’t know you could use a hairdryer for wind”

“I haven’t made (acted out) my own story before”

“I thought the sticks would blow down in the wind but they didn’t”

“I didn’t know I could climb fast”.

Which problem would YOU have tried to solve and what do YOU think YOU might have learnt?

It has been an exciting couple of days in Ash class…………….. We have turned ourselves into fantastic story tellers.

Following on from last week, we have continued to look closely at traditional tales, paying close attention to story language and telling stories using lots of expression and character voices. This has been a little tricky as we haven’t even used props!

Yesterday we worked in groups, looking at different traditional tales. We thought about some of the really interesting language that lots of these tales use and then looked to see if we could find any more. Here are some of our ideas;

Once upon a time….

……………and they lived happily ever after.
We then found that different stories had their own special story language. See if you can guess which stories these are from.

“Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who’s the fairest of them all?”

“Little pig, Little pig, Let me in.”
Can you think of any more?

We then thought really carefully about how we could change our voices to represent different characters. (We even took the register using our witches voices in the morning and one of the three bears’ voices in the afternoon). Using story telling chairs, inside and outside, we worked in small groups, taking it in turns to be a story teller.

We all had our own favourite chairs and our own favourite story telling areas.

We were BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!

In Holly class this week we have been learning how to make pancakes. We thought really carefully about the order in which we had to do everything.

Here are some of our ideas:

“Yummy pancakes”- Faizan
“First we had to wash our hands”- Khan.
“Next we had to put flour in”- Pharrell.
“Then we cracked the eggs in”- Wajeehah.
“We put milk in the jug and then we mixed it”- Amber and Keisha.
” Next we put the oil in the frying pan and left it to get hot”
“Then we put the mixture into the frying pan to fry the pancake.”
“We had to toss the pancake up in the air”- Jaylen.

“When it was done we had to chop some fruit up and put it on our pancake”- Aaliyah.

“Finally we ate the pancakes”- EVERYONE.
We also wrote some recounts about our pancakes.
Did you have any pancakes on Shrove Tuesday?

In Ash class this week we have been measuring using metre sticks, measuring worms (but not real ones) and we have measured how long the train in our playground is.

by Noah, Amy, Rukhsar, Corey, Haras and Jason (and me – Jo)

mac`apacas.  Noah

macapacas AMY

Amy and Noah have really enjoyed pancakes and learnt that you can make them taste even nicer if you put fruit on them.

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Rukhsar put some fruit on her pancakes for the first time and she thought they tasted nice.

Corey thought his pancakes tasted nice too. He enjoys eating them at home as well as at school.

We have been learning how to measure with a ruler and a metre stick and some measuring worms.  The longest worm was 19cm long. The shortest worm was 3cm long.

by Ajla, Lewis, Sean, Naffie, Alannah, Aiden and Jo

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I bin bo mas. I bin bo mein.

Aiden has been measuring in class and has measured snakes. There were big ones and small ones and the longest snake was 19cm long and the shortest was 3cm.

mesha snacs - Ajla

mesha rool/s – Naffie

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by sean

Sean measured the table using rulers and the longest thing he measured was the dry grass outside. He had to use metre sticks because it was so long.