what the ladybird heard

Today I read the story ‘What the ladybird heard‘ to the children. Jack asked me to get out the story sack for them to play with.

I laid the story sack out on the tuff tray for them to re tell the story themselves. We had the farmer, two robbers, the policemen, the duck, dog, hen, cow, two cats who went purr and meow and of course the Ladybird who never said a word.

All the children joined in, they used rich language from the story such as ‘ the ladybird never said a word” and “the cow said moo” and “the dog said woof”

Jack and Lottie helped each other count the wooden rounds and guess the bug on them.

Alba realised we didn’t have a pond that Lanky Len fell into. When Tracie went off to find something to use as a pond the younger children decided to tip all the shredded paper from the hen’s nests’ all over the floor.

They had such fun, Ben loved throwing it up in the air and letting it fall all over him. Holly joined in and helped Ben make even more mess.

Everyone helped to hoover it all up and put everything back on the tray.

Think we will extend the story by having a fact finding tray activity next week.

The Seedlings went into Tracie’s garden to find some rocks to paint. (Don’t tell Tracie!) Sophie found a big rockery stone and wanted to paint a sunflower, unfortunately nobody could pick it up!

Emma set the table ready to make their pretty stones. Emma suggested they make them into ladybirds as we love our story sack ‘What the Ladybird Heard’, the seedlings all got excited and screamed yeah!!

The girls worked really hard and the ladybirds looked amazing just like the one in the story! Now we need to quickly go to a park and hide them before Tracie realises there are five rocks missing from her garden!