Jack and the Beanstalk

The Chameleons have been reading the traditional tale Jack and the Beanstalk, we discussed that traditional tales might not always be the same and each version has its own author and its own differences.

We sequenced the story and retold it using actions and voices.

We became actors and worked in small groups to make freeze frames from key parts of the story. We worked as a team to fairly assign roles then created our freezes, we also thought about what our character might say or think.

Planting Beanstalks

As part of our topic Let it Grow and the celebrate Jack and the Beanstalk, the Chameleons planted beanstalks. We read a non fiction book about growing plants to learn what we need to do to help the seed germinate.  We scooped compost into our pots made a whole to put our seed in then covered it over. We are making sure to water the plants reguarly to help them grow.

Maths

Measure

The Chameleons spent the week looking at different kinds of measure and comparing two objects using our measure vocabulary. We found giant footprints and compared long and short. Then we looked at objects that are tall and short and found out which of our talk partners was taller and shorter. We used scaled to compare the weight of objects using heavier and lighter. Finally we looked at the capacity of vessels using full, nearly full, half full/half empty, nearly empty and empty.