PUPPET TIME

We have made puppets in D.T. We chose characters from the Gruffalo story and designed our own puppets. Have a look. We have made a puppet theatre and we will be acting out the story using our own puppets. 

Letters to Julia

Today we have been writing letters to Julia Donaldson. We have been thinking of questions to ask her about her stories. We will send them to her and see if we get an answer. 

Here is a letter written by Summer 

Dear Julia

I absolutely love all your fabulous books. My favourite book is the gruffalos Child because it is funny. We have read Room on the Broom and and our own witches hats. How many books have you written?  We made our own puppets. I made the fox, or you could make a snake, Gurffalo or owl. How old are you? What people draw the illustrations? I keep wondering who does the illustrations. I like the Gruffalo, he is a bit funny and he has purple prickles all over his back. He's got orange fiery eyes and turned out toes. 

From Summer 

Our Cinema Trip

Today we went to the cinema to watch Brave. We had a fantastic time. The film was about a princess who didn't want to be 'princess like' and didn't want to be married. There were lots of funny bits and also some sad bits. (Mrs Edwards has a tear in her eye!) and there was lots of adventure. We thoroughly recommend the film if you haven't seen it.  

WITCHES POTIONS

As promised... here are a few of our recipes for witches potions. 

The children were all really good at knowing how to set out their instructions using a what you need list and numbering their instructions. We became really good at using lots of bossy verbs to write our instructions. 

To Make Gold

You will need 
*Frogs insides
*250ml blood
16 eye balls
1 vampires tooth
1 dead ghost
1 snakes tonguw
10 dead bats
2 dead dragons heads
100 spiders

1. Firstly throw the frogs insides in the cauldron. 
2. Secondly pour 50ml of blood in
3. Next chuck 16 eyes in then give a big stir
4. Drop 1 vampire tooth in
5. Put 1 dead ghost in and mix
6. Add 1 snake tongue.
7. Place 10 dead bats in. 
8. Eventually throw 2 dragons heads in and lastly put in the 100 spiders. 
9. Give it a big mix and you will have gold!!

By Harry 

WITCHES HATS

Here are our fabulous witches hats. 

WITCHES HATS AND WANDS!!

Yesterday and today we made witches hats and witches wands. We thought really carefully about the steps we used to make our wands and hats and then we wrote instructions for someone else to follow. We really loved our witches hats. There was a lot of glitter and sparkles!! See the pictures below. 

JULIA DONALDSON

JULIA DONALDSON

Our focus author this term is Julia Donaldson. She wrote the Gruffalo books and many other fantastic stories.. (We are trying to read them all!) We have already written our own Gruffalo stories. 

Now we are learning about instruction writing. 

Today we read, 'Room on the Broom. We made witches hats and wrote instructions on how to make them. 

We will also be writing instructions on how to make a witches potion. 

We have really been enjoying reading her book- why don't you visit the library this weekend and see if you can find some of her books to read. 

Welcome to Acer Class
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The children have all settled in really well to Year Two and are really enjoying our 'Gruffalo' topic.