This week we have focused on the story Jack and the beanstalk. Activities we have enjoyed include, alongside other child initiated activities:

• planting cress seeds
• learning about the life cycle of a bean
• mixing colours to make green while painting
• lots of mark making in various forms: water painting, wipe board marking, pencils, pens, tracing patterns and much more create leaf rubbing pictures
• role playing the story jack and the beanstalk and dressing up in giant clothes
• using small world characters to role play the story
• creating a big beanstalk and turning it into a giant number line
• making a junk model giant castle
• using the light box with different coloured tissue to make green
• looking at golden objects on our investigation tray
• making patterns with shaving foam clouds
• lots of listening games, songs and rhymes
• listening to harp music
• lots of dressing up fun
• playing hide and seek magic beansplaying guessing games and phonological games
• making up stories with soft toys
• lots of puzzles and lotto games
• making shapes with play dough
• finding our names in different places
• cutting and sticking jack and the beanstalk pictures
• enjoying jack and the beanstalk yoga
• size ordering beanstalks
• playing a magic bean counting game

Please see the links below for home learning ideas related to our topic.
For further home learning ideas you can look back through the previous weeks to find more ideas of things you can do at home.

Best wishes, Julia, Claire, Hannah, Lisa and Adam

Home Learning Activities
Jack and the Beanstalk 01
Jack and the Beanstalk 02