Anansi

We're sharing Anansi stories at the moment. Anansi is a man, Anansi is a spider. He is lazy and greedy, and likes to play tricks on the other animals.

Here's one of the books we've enjoyed, animated:



And here's another few we've enjoyed:

The Creature in the Cave

As part of our unit of inquiry into survival, we've been looking at animals and plants and what they need. One way we've been doing this is through an imaginary scenario to which the children have contributed most of the information...

Our village is by a deep lake. Some of the people in our village dive down into the lake to get a plant that grows at the bottom; this plant is used in a medicine. They have described to us what the plant looks like.

There's a mountain by our village too. High up in the mountain is a cave. Recently, a creature has been seen going into the cave. Some of us went up the mountain, and looked in the cave. We saw what the creature looked like.

Here we are, discussing what is needed for the dive, how we make the medicine, and mapping out what's around the village. There are three groups that are experts on these three things:

After careful preparation, a group dived down into the lake to get the flower needed for the medicine. Another group carefully made the medicine. 

And a third group went up into the mountains to see the creature and its child. The story continues next week...

With thanks to Jenny Lewis for this 'Mantle of the Expert' unit.

Book Week Fun

This week the children have enjoyed taking part in all our wonderful book week activities.

Author, Paul Geraghty

Alec Williams

dressing up!

in the bookshop

Home Language Story Tellers

Thank you to all the parents that came into K3 to read us a story in their home language.

Miró Stories

What great stories the children in K3 have created! Have a look at the two books of stories we've collected together. First of all, K3L:


and here's the one by K3G:

The Crazy Eye and the Jellyfish

We're writing stories based on Joan Miró's Constellation pictures. Parents are typing them out and sending them to the teachers. Here's the first one Simon received, a great story by Kai:

Once upon a time there was a crazy eye who met a jellyfish.

They had a little walk and then they went into a shop. They bought some milk and pizza. They also bought fire to heat them up.

Then they went out of the shop and they looked at the sky. They saw a rainbow and then the sun came. They had a little rest and they felt very warm. Next they met a crazy monster which looks like a whale and the whale came to them. It had one eye. “It looks like me!” said the monster eye. They walked and went on the aeroplane but the people were scared of them because they thought they were monsters. But it wasn’t a monster, it was just a crazy one not a real one.

It came night time they got off the aeroplane and saw two moons. They looked out of the window of their house and they were surprised about the two moons.