What would you think if you opened a bag of clues containing a mallet, some bunny ears, a pot of fairy dust, a magic wand, a bunny tail and some torn denim? Well, Christina wondered if “the fairy might whack the rabbit to bits”!

The clues hooked us into Michael Rosen’s story, ‘Little Rabbit Foo Foo’.

We discussed the role of the author, illustrator and the blurb on the back cover, moving at a gentle pace through the story, considering new vocabulary and discussing the characters. A story map was drawn so we could sequence events, which helped us when we started our imitation of the text.

We have been making Foo Foo puppets and wriggly worms in our workshop and drawing pictures of goonies.

Once we are confident with imitating the story, we will start to innovate and create our own versions of the tale.

Over this year, the Talk for Writing process will help the children to build up a bank of story ideas from which they can draw as they become creative and independent writers.

Please ask the children if they can tell you some of the story. We hope you will be impressed by what they can recall!

Pumpkin patch

Thank you so much to Mrs Whittaker for creating a beautiful autumnal scene in our small world area, provoking awe and wonder in the children (and adults!).

We examined her beautiful gourds and discussed what we noticed before using oil pastels to draw them.