Heathrow Primary School
Heathrow Primary School
Week 4 - The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Our story this week was 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff.' We read the story and focused on using expression for the characters speech. The children then had to identify the speech and match it to the character. They practised using a deep growly voice for the troll, a small quiet voice for Little Billy Goat, a normal voice for Middle Billy Goat and a loud voice for Big Billy Goat. The children really loved this story and enjoyed re-enacting it in our small world role-play area with the troll and the bridge and the three goats. They were using the vocabulary 'trip trap, trip trap' when the goats went over the bridge. They used good expression when pretending to be the characters.
The Billy Goats called us up and asked us to solve their problem of the broken bridge. As architects used our critical thinking skills to make a plan and select materials. We selected the type of bridge we would like to build form a series of pictures. We then discussed the different materials our Duplo, Stickle Bricks and wooden blocks were made of and the benefits of selecting each material. We worked as a team to think about any issues that might arise whilst building during our planning stage. As engineers, we worked as a team to build a new bridge that would get from one side of the water to the other. We were taking turns, actively listening and building on others ideas. The Billy Goats were so impressed with our bridges!
We were learning all about the number 4, recognising it, saying it, subitising it , counting and matching it. The children had to quickly identify things that were an not 4.
We played a Billy Goats Gruff board game which supported our work on subitising, counting, our fine motor skills, turn taking and the ability win and lose graciously.
We were focusing on rhyme and read various stories for the children to try and identify the rhyming words. We did an activity in which the children had listen and distinguish the end sounds of words to recognise the corresponding rhyming word.
The children did some Billy Goats Gruff bilateral tracing. These activities help to improve focus, enhance memory, build fine motor strength and hand-eye coordination and improve emotional regulation by providing a calming effect on the nervous system.
- Attitude
- Achievement
- Aspiration