Fables flexi school 7th January 2015

We are learning to identify elements of fables

We watched an animation of The tortoise and the hare
And discussed the characters and the story line
What do you predict will happen?
Who will win the race?
What do you think about the hare?
What do you think about the tortoise?

Lily read aloud the definition of a fable which she had discovered rolled up in a scroll held by her favourite teddy bear:
A fable is a shirt fictional story, often with animals who talk like people and has a moral lesson

Outside in the garden, lots if statements had been hidden.
The children ran out to collect them all and identify whether they were true or false statements for a fable.

Next J read aloud a printed version of the tortoise and the hare. We identified the elements of a fable in this short story.

Now it was time for the children to write their own fables as a speed story in 10 minutes.
Every time I saw an element of a fable being applied in their writing, I have them a gold star.

Place value Flexi school 7th January

To learn place value using our whole body through movement (kinaesthetic learning) we played a game to learn and practise place value up to hundreds of thousands.
The children drew around their own foot and put in a random digit from 0-9 in each foot.

A digit was put in each column and then the children read the whole number aloud as the stomped on it with their own foot.

This was differentiated for the children; lily who is 6 put digits in the hundreds, tens and units and column and J is who 9 put them upto hundreds if thousands.
This activity could be extended very simply for decimal place value.

All you need is:
Duck tape
Marker pen
Paper
And a foot!