Stick Man continued...

Reception have been very busy over the last few Fridays continuing activities linked to the Stick Man story, including:

Creating puppets linked to the story

"Well done! Fine manipulative skills are developing well."

Have a look at our display in the classroom!

Enjoying sharing and talking about the story

Taking part in a 'True' or 'False' quiz about the story

"Excellent recall and response. You have a good understanding of the story, including: characters, setting and sequence of events."

"Great sense of empathy too when we talked about Stick Man's feelings and how they changed throughout the story."

Working together to solve problems

Exploring length

Generating words for 'big'

Ordering by length

How many friends long is it?

Counting in twos

Using non-standard units to measure and compare lengths

PHOTOS to follow

Carrying out surveys to find out which character is most popular

PHOTOS to follow

"Very independent!" 

"Excellent communication skills and use of tallying to record findings."

Creating our own 'Story Maps' to recall and recount the story in sequence

PHOTOS to follow

"Super talk for writing!"

Learning and performing the song using sign language

Developing our reading skills in different contexts

This story and song is helping us to develop our phonic skills and knowledge of key words. We are using our increasing knowledge within our own writing.

Writing in role as the Stick Man. Sending letters and postcards as Stick Man to his family.

Working cooperatively to create a Stick Family using natural materials

Being creative and thinking critically - representing people, objects and places from imagination

Transient art

Using natural objects to create and express ideas in another form

Lots of opportunities to develop mathematical ideas, thinking and language use

High levels of focus and thus deep level learning too!

Stick Man!

Well done! Lots of thought and detail here.

Fantastic effort! High level of focus and creative thinking when you described your image.

Fantastic effort here! Look at the exacting symmetry. I liked how you described it to others. (Below)

Increasing levels of involvement and engagement during self-chosen activities and experiences both indoors and outdoors 

Wow! Look at this number sentence!

Developing numerical knowledge and spatial awareness through creative and cooperative play. Excellent teamwork and effort!

Writing for a purpose 

Refining our manipulative skills, comparing length and creating with a purpose in mind. High levels of focus observed too!

Team work - "The big city!"

Reading words from the story

Recording our challenges for the day...!

Making something for someone special 

We have put some of our threading efforts out for the birds...

We did it!

Performing the story...

Acting, singing and making music to create our class show in our classroom theatre!

Taking on the role of the 'Stick MAN'

We are the orchestra.

Stick men, the dog and other characters...

Who can you spot? the dog, Ladylove, the snowman, the swan, stick children three... and Santa!

Which character did you play?

Another fantastic orchestra!

Acting out the story in small groups

Such a busy time everyone! Well done!

Miss B