The Gruffalo's Child

The Gruffalo was a firm favourite with the children so we have been sharing the lovely  story of 'The Gruffalo's Child'.

We enjoyed the story book so much that this week we are going to share the 'sound book' version!

Christopher - "I like the big, big Gruffalo because it's really scary!"

Zara remembered lots of detail from the story . . . 

"The orange mouse had a nut and the big, big Gruffalo had orange eyes and the Big Bad Mouse had a nut over his shoulder and there's footprints in the snow and the owl had orange eyes as well and the snake was in his logpile house. There was slithers in the snow. The Big Bad Mouse was down by the lake eating gruffalo cake!"

Zac - "I like the Big Bad Mouse - he had a shadow"

We would love to hear which was your favourite part of the story - post us a comment and let us know.

Night Monkey, Day Monkey

We have been talking about the night sky recently and thought that this would be a great book to share next from 

Julia Donaldson . . . 

Night Monkey and Day Monkey's worlds are as different as . . . night and day! What one fears, the other loves.

Zara - "The moon was shining bright and the orange one and the brown one, they were looking at the moon."

Georgia - "I liked the girl monkey cause she had a 

star in her hair."

Toby - "I liked it when they rubbed their eyes cause 

they were sleepy."

Kaidence - "The monkeys get bananas."

The children loved joining in with the repetitive text 'Don't be daft' - but we would love to hear what your favourite part 

of the story was.

Post us a comment and let us know!

Room on the Broom

Some of the children have been telling us about their costumes for Halloween - so we thought this would be a good choice for our next Julia Donaldson book!

'The witch had a cat
and a very tall hat,
And long ginger hair
which she wore in a plait.'

We loved sharing this rhyming story, and afterwards the children shared their thoughts.

Here are just a few of them . . . 

Serenna - "The bow came off. She had it in her hair. The wind blowed it off."

Noah - "The witch flied and then her broom broke and she fell in the water."

Sammy O - "There was a dragon."

Annie - "The dragon carried the witch. He smoked fire. He's got smoke from his nose."

As well as reading the book, we watched and listened to the song - we thought you might like to see and hear it too!

       

Which was your favourite part of the story?

Post us a comment and let us know!