Goldilocks Story-Makaton

Three Little Pigs Story-Animation

Three Billy Goats Story-Makaton

Jack and the Beanstalk Story-Musical Story

Once Upon A Time

This term, we will learn to become storytellers and will focus on some traditional tales: 

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

The Three Little Pigs

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Jack and the Beanstalk

We also like singing:

Hello Song

Goodbye Song

Weather Song Video

Weather Song

Clean-up Song

Traditional Tales Songslide

Piglet Background Music

Read the story of the 3 little pigs

Today we are going to read our new story. This is the story of the 3 little pigs. 

Have you heard of this story before?  

Listen out for repeated phrases. 

Can you join in?

What a great story!

 Do you remember what happened first? What happened next? and then what happened with the 3rd little pig?

Here are our little pig and big bad wolf hand puppets. Can you work with your friends to create a puppet show to retell the story of the 3 little pigs?

Remember to use the key phrases from the story!

"Little Pig, Little Pig, Let me come in"

"Not by the hairs on my chinny, chin, chin!"

Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down."

Today, we’re going to read The Three Little Pigs—but listen carefully, because it’s a special sound story! As we read, we’ll stop and see if you can hear and guess the different sounds in the story. What do you think that sound is? Is it the wind? Or maybe someone knocking on the door?

Now we will  play a fun game—I'll press the sound buttons, and you can tell me what each sound is and where it happened in the story. Then we’ll read the story again, and this time, I’ll need your help to tell me what sound comes next! Are you ready to be sound detectives?

I have a special box today—and guess what? It belongs to The Three Little Pigs! Let’s see what’s inside…

(Sing together) "Little pigs, little pigs, what have you there? Reach inside and let’s all share!"

Let’s see… (child’s name), can you reach inside and pull out something from the box? What did you find? Let’s put it in the middle so we can all see.

Do you notice anything special about these words? They all start with the s sound! Let’s say them again together. Great listening, everyone!

What book have we been reading this week?  Yes, that’s right — The Three Little Pigs! Let’s listen to this fun song!

What did the Big Bad Wolf do to try to destroy the pigs’ houses? That’s right — he huffed and he puffed and tried to blow them down!

Let’s try blowing on our arms. Can you feel the air? That’s wind — and wind has power. It can blow things around, just like the wolf tried to do.

Let’s try a wind experiment!

 I have a fan here, and we’re going to test which items can be blown away and which are too strong to move.

Here are the items we’ll test:

Tissue, Rock, Scarf, Bowl, Paper, Water Bottle, Hat, Toy Car 

and like in the story:

Straw, Sticks and Bricks.

What do you think will happen?  Let’s make a prediction:

 -  Will it blow away?

- Or will it stay put?

Let’s find out together!

Activity 1: There are various items on the table: a leaf, piece of tissue, paper, rock, straw and a feather.

Let's use the fan to blow the different items. Let's make predictions about what will happen.  

Will it blow away? Or will it stay put?

Activity 2: Let’s do some blow painting! Just like the Big Bad Wolf, we’re going to “huff” and “puff” — but instead of blowing down houses, we’ll use straws to blow paint across our paper and create some fun artwork!

Squiggle- Last week we learnt the final dance in squiggle which is dance 9 the straight line. Lets do this dance again but this time lets write this down on the tables! Don't forget to clean it off after!

Phonics-Introduce the new game by singing the song to the tune of ‘It’s Raining, It’s Pouring’: ‘The name game, the name game, We can play the name game.’  (class animal) likes to say the sound at the beginning of words. If you think your name begins with a sound I say, place your hands on your head ready for my Initial Sound Wand to cast a fun little spell on you! (If you want to break the spell the wand casts straight away, just put your hands back in your lap.)’. Wave the wand over the children’s heads repeatedly saying a sound you know a few of the children’s names start with, e.g. ‘A, a, a’. Allow the children to support each other to identify who needs to place their hands on their heads. When all the correct children are ready, say a simple alliterative spell, e.g. ‘Jack, Johan and Jemma… j, j, jump!’ 

Extend the game by having items which match childrens initial sounds in their names. Can they find the item that has the same initial sound as their name. 

This week we will be following your child's interest and observing what they have enjoyed learning in their classrooms.

This week in Makaton we are learning the sounds for, Train, Bus and Boat.