Heathrow Primary School
Heathrow Primary School
Week 3- Little Red Riding Hood
Our story this week was 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The children enjoyed listening to the story and seeing the Big Bad Wolf again in another story. They acted out the story using props such a wolf ears, a red riding hood cloak and a scarf for Granny. They were trying to think about what the character would say and how they would be feeling.
Little Red Riding Hood rang us with a problem. She had a hole in her cape and wanted a new waterproof one to walk to Granny's house when it is raining. We tested out different materials by pouring water on them, we recognised whether they were waterproof by looking to see if the water was absorbed and came through the material and feeling the other side of it to check if it was wet or dry. We sorted the materials into 'waterproof,' and 'not waterproof.' We then looked at the materials we had a decided which ones could be easily manipulated to wrap around Little Red Riding Hood.
We played a board game to see who could get to Granny's house first. We rolled out dice and subitised or counted the amount and then moved the correct number of spaces using one to one correspondence and stopping at the cardinal number. We were practising taking turns, and winning and losing graciously. We learnt about the number 3, recognising, subitising, counting, matching and forming it. The children sorted items into 3 and not 3 to help support their number value.
We selected our favourite characters from the story and gave reasons as to why we like them the most. Children were able to use longer sentences using the word ‘because.’ We then went onto create those characters using a variety of different mediums. The children were able to explore different textures and join the different materials together. Some of them even included different emotions on their characters faces.
The children used their fine motor skills to cut out Little Red Riding Hood’s cape. The focused on twisting the paper, rather than twisting their hands. We focused on the correct scissors hold and trying to cut accurately along the line.
In Phonics we were learning about rhyming words, that they have the same end sounds. We created rhyming strings and then had to identify the missing one. We also matched some rhyming pairs.
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