A Magic Cauldron

This week we have read the story of ‘Hansel and Gretel’.

We learnt about the villainous witch and thought about what potions she could be concocting in her cottage.  We thought of our own recipe for a potion and then wrote these recipes as a set of instructions. Here are our ideas:

” A potion to make you fall in love.” Caitie

“A potion to turn you into a lizard.” Finn

“A potion to make you be forgotten.” Ben

“A potion to make you explode in colours.” Jan

“A potion to  turn you into a unicorn mermaid.” Nicole

“A potion to turn you into a basket.” Toby

“A potion to turn you into a frog.” Guy

“A poisonous potion.” Eddie

“A potion that makes you explode.” (Nicky)

“A potion to turn you into a pikachu.” Theo

“A potion that if you drink it will attack you.” Elizabeth

“A potion to turn you into a spider.” Gabriel

“A potion that makes you poisonous.” Marcus

“A potion to turn you into a fang.” Sean

“A potion to turn you into a newt.” George

“A potion that makes you bubbly.” Lewis

“A potion to turn you into a shower.” Issa

“A potion to turn you invisible.” Eliza

“A potion to make you blast off into space.” Ranga

“A potion to make you explode.” Albie

“A potion to make you fall in love.” Grace

“A potion to make you turn red.” Caroline

“A potion to turn you into a fighting robot.” Jiyong

“A potion to make you fall in love.” Lilly

“A potion to turn you into an exploding monster.” Matilda

“A potion to turn you into a fairy.” Lucy

“A potion to you into Ben 10.” Levi

“A potion to shrink people.” Lenny

“A potion to turn into a giant, ugly monster.” Valeri

In our reading sessions we have been comparing traditional and modern fairy tales. Using our core text ‘Into the Forest’ and ‘Shrek’ we have looked at the similarities and differences between stories such as ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and fairy tales that are written today.

In maths we have been using numicon to calculate related addition and subtraction facts.

E.g. If 7+3=10, then 3+7=10, 10-3 =7, and 10-7=3

We call these number facts ‘fact families’.

In science we enjoyed learning about the parts of a plant you can eat, although not everyone was a fan of the radish!

In phonics we have been learning the sounds:

 

sh (shop, wish)

ch (church, chip)

ea (tea, sea)

ar (star, car)

There are words containing these sounds for the children to practise available on the Spelling Shed website: https://play.edshed.co/login

On Wednesday 13th February we will be making a fairy tale story box. The week commencing Monday 11th February the children will need to bring in a shoe box (or a small box) that can be used to create the fairy tale setting. A few examples are below:

This week we have enjoyed learning about Sean’s monkey ‘Fluffy’, Lewis’s bat light, George’s book ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’ and squirrel ‘Fluffy’, Gabriel’s ‘Switch-Go Dino’ called ‘Akuna’, Issa’s train set and Marcus’s Lego car.  Next week it is the turn of the Gingerbread Man table (Guy, Toby, Nicky, Elizabeth, Theo and Eddie) for Show and Tell.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

The Year One Team