If You're Happy and You Know It!

We have had lots to be happy about this week, and thought that this would be a good choice for our next 

Jan Ormerod book . . . 

It is based on the popular children's rhyme, but has lots of different animals that find an alternative for clapping their hands when they are happy!

Here is a small selection of the animals 

enjoyed by the children:

Jessica - "I liked the dog cause he wagged his tail."

Lucas - "I liked the elephant, he flapped his ears like this." (Lucas showed us!)

Iwa - "I liked the crocodile, he snapped his teeth!"

Alfie D - "I liked the hyena, he was laughing!"

What makes you happy - post us a comment and let us know!

Whoosh around the Mulberry Bush

This week our Jan Ormerod book has taken us to lots of different habitats around the world as well as continuing our focus on different animals!

Zac particularly liked the sandy shore - "Crabs go under water!". He also spotted a fish that he liked in the deep blue sea - "He's like Nemo! He's orange and white"

Further along in the book, Annie told us "We're not in the desert any more, we're in the jungle! I really like the monkey swinging on the vines"

Samuel W enjoyed the next habitat - "I like the crocodile because he's in the waterhole. He's got big sharp teeth!"

Georgia also found a favourite animal at the waterhole - "I liked the zebra because it's got stripes on it"

We would love to hear about your favourite habitat - post us a comment and let us know!

The Animal Bop Won't Stop!

Everyone enjoyed reading 'Doing the Animal Bop' last week, and our second book has been no different, there were lots of smiles and laughter . . . 

We met some more animals and enjoyed finding how they move and joined in with the actions and sound effects!

The giraffe was very popular . . . 

Seth B - "I liked giraffe, it's long"

Hattie - "I liked the giraffe cause it sticked it's tongue out"

But Iwa preferred the lion . . .

"Me liked the lion cause it went 'Raaaaa'!"

Now we're all looking forward to meeting the characters in our next Jan Ormerod book!