'Traction Man is Here'

Year 2 retold the oral version of 'Traction Man is Here' by acting out the story with props. This was part of our imitation stage so the children understood the story fully.

F2I - Little Rabbit Foo Foo

F2I are learning about the story of Little Rabbit Foo Foo! Below are our some of the activities that the children are getting themselves involved in! 

 The children made a small world forest and found a rabbit and a scooter.

 The children are recreating the story using small world equipment!

Our story map

Watch us retell the story below: 

Warning Stories in Year 3 at TX

Year 3 children at TX learnt a new warning story called ‘Kassim and the Greedy Dragon’. Click below to view the videos.

Year 3 at TX - Information Texts

Year 3 children at TX learnt an information text ‘All about England’. Click below to view the video.

Imitation Stage - F2's Little Rabbit Foo Foo

In F2B, our focused story for Talk4Writing is ‘Little Rabbit Foo Foo’.  In this video, the children are doing the actions and saying the words of the story. This is good practice for children who enjoy movement and connecting their actions in an enjoyable way especially for Early Years. The actions that were thought are easy for the children to follow also for EAL children.

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The children have been involved with different activities in the classroom, to incorporate the story with the different learning spaces. In the creative area, the children made tigers by marble painting orange card, and painted and decorated their bunny ears. In the Maths area, they have been cutting shapes and made the field mice. In the messy tray, the children made wriggly worms out of pasta and food colour. They enjoyed exploring the texture and pretending the pasta was wriggly worms. We had a tiger hunt wherein we saved the tigers from being scooped up by Little Rabbit Foo Foo. The children made goonies out of plasticine and made them think on how to construct their goonie and describe their creation. This is another way for them to express themselves and practise their speaking and thinking skills. In the soft play room and back play area, the children have been hopping like Little Rabbit Foo Foo.

In the week before the break, the children will be doing the goblins using tissue cartons. They would be connecting the events of the story with the use of big card on the board. This is a practice in T4W so the children can draw down their thoughts and the sequence of the story, ‘Little Rabbit Foo Foo’.

F2 - 'My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes'

F2 children using the language and vocabulary from our Talk for Writing book, 'My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes'. I was really impressed with memory and engagement of the children. There are children in the video that speak no English but followed the story using all the actions!
- Ms Maria

Year 4 Stories in Imaginary Worlds - Leon and The Place Between

F3 - 'The Enormous Turnip'

F3 decided to take photos of the children doing actions to the story as their story map. The children were able to relate easily to the pictures and used them confidently to retell the story.

Year 1 - 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea'

Year 1 have been learning the story of 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea'. During the imitation stage they enjoyed acting out the story using actions the class had agreed upon.

Year 3 - 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'

Year 3 really enjoyed imitating the story of 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'.

Year 6 - 'The Highway Man' Verse 15

Year 6 - 'The Highway Man' Verse 9

Year 6 - 'The Highway Man' Verse 1

Year 6 have been learning The Highwayman poem by Alfred Noyes. In groups, they have learnt a couple of verses by heart and added actions to help them to remember. Here are a few of the verses. To see the whole poem, go to blogp6n.blogspot.com

Year 5 - 'Zelda the Rain Cat'

 Year 5 have been learning about suspense writing. They focused on Zelda the Rain Cat.

2V Performing 'The Papaya that Spoke' to F3 children

Year 5 Explanation Text Map

A story map for an explanation text in Year 5

F3 Imitation Stage - The Enormous Turnip with Ms Anna

The children have been learning about “The Enormous Turnip.” Through storytelling and demonstrations of the actions. They are able to imitate and retell the whole story. All of the children take part and can talk about their favourite part of the story. We have the actions on display in the classroom with props for them to access. There they can work in small groups to retell the story. Many children had no knowledge of the story or some of the vocabulary associated with it. They were taught the meanings of; delicious, enormous, seed and turnip and are able to use them in sentences.

Imitating 

Putting the characters in order using puppets

Y2 Traction Man - Making sense of the text with Miss Andrea

We re-read the Year Group Text and discussed any words that arose. These were student driven and either words which were unfamiliar (wife and duvet) or words which sounded good (evil pillow). We made links to other known words. By deciding what a rocket did it was possible to guess what rocket boots might do. Then we talked about what we could do if we had rocket boots. We also considered the word meanings; that sub-aqua means under water. Then we could decide where we would go, and what we would see there, if we were wearing a sub-aqua suit (an evil octopus).

After making a mind map of our ideas we found pictures for the key words to write our own glossary definition for our new understanding of some of the words.