This week, we listened to the story of the magic porridge pot which is based on one of the Grimm’s brothers’ fairy-tales, originally published in the 19th Century. You can re-listen to the story here. We loved learning the magic rhyme and luckily, when Miss Cronin discovered a magic porridge pot in the nursery kitchen, we were able to say it to get our own porridge bubbling away on the stove-top! Once it had cooled a little, we had a porridge party and (nearly all of us) decided that the porridge was delicious!

Please note, if your child tells you they have yet to make some porridge – they may be correct! We will be finishing off our porridge parties next week and making sure everyone has a turn.

Making porridge gave us an ideal opportunity to talk about how to keep ourselves safe in the kitchen and I was so impressed by the children’s knowledge! They knew not to touch kettles or stove-tops and not to touch or use knives without an adult helping them. Here are some more ideas for how to keep safe in the kitchen which you might like to talk about at home.

Another of our spotlight stories this week was the wonderful ‘A Chair for Baby Bear’ by Kaye Umansky which tells the tale of Baby Bear’s search for a new chair after Goldilock’s visit. You can revisit this story here. Our drawing club focus this week was on creating our own chairs for Baby Bear and we designed some wonderfully imaginative drawings including a shark chair that pulls you through the water, a fire and water chair, a rainbow chair and a chair filled with gadgets and remote controls!

In maths, we have been practising our subitising skills (‘don’t count, see the amount!’) and learning that 4 dots are still 4 dots no matter how the dots are arranged.

In our phonics lessons, we learnt two more special friends sounds: th ( as in thin, thick, Thursday) and ng (as in king, sing, ring, thing). Here are the sayings that go with these sounds:

We also learnt that there are some words which we are not decodable so we can’t use our Fred-talk to read them. These words are known as red words and we say ‘you can’t Fred a red!’

This week, we learnt the red words I (as in I am Miss Cronin) and the (as in the apple).

Here is a red words song we have been enjoying – although please note, we have not learnt all of these yet:

Our final spotlight story (which you can revisit here) kept us in the deep, dark wood where we met a big bad wolf and a little girl wearing red clothes…I wonder if you can think of another story where we meet those characters…

Have a lovely weekend everyone!