This week Class 5B have read the story of Hansel and Gretel. They made predictions about what would happen in the story and were quite surprised at how unkind the parents were.
When it was our turn to explore the Winter Wonderland in the garden we found a Gingerbread House with a witch inside. We had fun acting out the story and even pushed the witch into the oven!
Later we made our own gingerbread houses in the cookery room ready to design and decorate next week. We made salt dough gingerbread Christmas tree decorations too.
This week class 5B retold the story of Pattan’s Pumpkin through role play and thought about what the characters would say. They followed instructions to make Indian sweets called Coconut Ladoo’s, we hope you like them!
We looked at google earth to find India again and compared the Western Ghat region with Northumberland. They both have mountains!
We also thought about how to keep ourselves clean and had a go at brushing our teeth with new toothbrushes.
This week class 5B travelled to India. We read the story of Pattanās Pumpkin by Chitra Soundar about a farmer who grew an enormous pumpkin and saved the animals from a great flood. Pattan wrote us a letter and asked us to make a curry using vegetables from his farm. It tasted delicious!
We looked on google earth and found the Sahyadri Mountains where the story was based. We watched a film and chose pictures of the animals, people and places from the area to describe.
Last Saturday it was Diwali. We found out that Diwali is celebrated by the Hindu religion Ā all over the world. We made some crafts to celebrate including Diva lamps and Rangoli patterns.
This week we found out why we wear poppies on Remembrance Day. We created our own poppies and Mrs Sanderson showed us photographs of poppies on the war memorial in Morpeth. We thought about our own memories and put them in order.
Then we thought about what it might have been like during the World Wars. We listened to music and made war time scones – we hope you liked them!
Our topic started with a lump of pastry that we used to makeĀ bears in different sizes. We began reading “Biscuit Bear” by Mini Grey. The children made predictions and placed the main characters of Horace and Biscuit Bear onto the Zones of Regulation to show how they were feeling. We thought of lots of describing words to use to describe Biscuit Bear too.
Then we followed a recipe to make Biscuit Bear some new friends. We designed how we wanted to decorate them and used icing to bring them to life. I hope they tasted as good as they looked!
We are looking forward to learning more about Food and Drink this term and how food helps us to celebrate special occasions.
