We were delighted this week to welcome the Hobgoblin Theatre Company to St. Matthew’s to watch their production of Little Red Riding Hood. We absolutely loved the show and wanted to say a huge thank you to all of the actors (including the uncle of one of our children) who entertained us brilliantly!

Naturally, the show prompted lots of discussion about the traditional tale of Little Red Riding Hood, its characters and, in particular, its different versions. Some of us prefer the version where the wolf eats Grandma! Others of us would rather read a version where Grandma hid under the bed or in the wardrobe. Which version do you prefer?

The story also found it’s way into our play when our role-play area was transformed into Grandma’s Cottage! Look very carefully…who is that sleeping in Grandma’s bed?

In our phonics lessons, we have been practising our set 1 speed sounds and focusing especially on the special friends qu, ng and nk. We have also been reading our speedy green words and trying to hold a ditty (a mini sentence) in our head before having a go at writing it.

In our maths lessons, we played the hiding numberblobs game; working with a total number of six, I put some ‘numberblobs’ into the five-frames and kept some hidden in my hand. The challenge was to work out how many ‘numberblobs’ were still in my hand. This was a very tricky challenge and required us to use lots of different mathematical thinking! Why not have a go at home, start with a small number like 2 and gradually build up to bigger numbers. Can you have a go at playing the hiding numberblobs game with a total of 10? Use can you anything you like as numberblobs – spoons, socks, pieces of lego, toy cars – anything you have at home. 

Finally, we celebrated World Book Day on Friday and came to school dressed up as some of our favourite storybook characters including The Rainbow Fish, Where’s Wally and Winnie the Witch!

We hope everyone is having a lovely weekend, see you on Monday!