Monkey Puzzle

This is our second Julia Donaldson book - we have loved sharing the story together . . . 

"There's a monkey in the story. He lost his mum. There's a snake in the story" (Annie)

"There's lots of animals - a frog and a snake and a bat. The monkey can't find his mum" (Lucas)

"The butterfly finds the elephant and finds the snake, and finds the bat" (Toby)

"I liked the butterfly because she talked" (Jessica)

Zac became very involved in the story - he asked questions and made lots of comments as we progressed through the book!

"Is it going to be another elephant?"

"That's a big parrot, he's got wings!"

"That's his whole family - I want to draw the monkey's family" (Zac)

"I liked the daddy monkey because he was bringing the baby monkey home!" (Alfie D)

We thought you would enjoy the story too:

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Tyrannosaurus Drip!

This term we are going to have Julia Donaldson as our focus author. She has written lots of wonderful stories and the first one that we decided to share was a dinosaur one! 

'In a swamp beside a river, where the land was thick with veg,

Lived a herd of duckbill dinosaurs who roamed the 

water's edge.'

'Now across the rushy river, on a hill the other side,

Lived a mean Tyrannosaurus with his grim and grisly bride.'

A duckbill egg ended up in the Tyrannosaurus nest!

"I like the egg one, it hatched!" (Sophie)

"There were little dinosaurs from the nest" (Seth L)

The baby duckbill dinosaur was very different to the others in the nest - his sisters found a name for him - 

'Tyrannosaurus Drip'!

Feeling sad and lonely, he decided to run away and saw a lovely sight, a herd of duckbill dinosaurs all 

hooting with delight.

That night a storm blew down a tree, and acted as a bridge.

The four Tyrannosauruses tried to cross it but were frightened by their reflections in the water - dad jumped into the air and landed with a crash - the tree bridge broke and they all went 'SPLASH!'

The children thought this was a very funny part of the story: 

"When the tree broke" (Sammy O)

"When they were flushed away in the water" (Olivia)

'And the duckbills hooted happily, they hooted 'Hip hip hip . . .  

Hooray for the heroic, one-and-only Duckbill Drip!'

"I liked the hooting bit at the end" (Samuel W)

Did you have a favourite part of the story?

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