Gruffalo sightings at Broadford!

On Monday afternoon the reception children arrived back to their classrooms to find they had missed a visitor. The visitor had left some large clawed footprints in both Apple and Aspen class. The children quickly decided that these footprints were left by the Gruffalo and this was a great hook into our story of the week.

The children spent the afternoon comparing and discussing the size of the Gruffalo and mouse footprints. Temilola decided to use a ruler and measured the length of the footprints where as Freddie Sheppard chose to use the multilink cubes. Lots of children decided to make a poster describing what the Gruffalo looked like so others could look out for him. Later in the week the children designed and wrote about their own monster. 

On Wednesday it was time for a Gruffalo workshop, the children planted story seeds and helped to re-tell the story. Acting out a story and getting into role as different characters enables the children to structure their ideas before they put them on paper. The children throughly enjoyed the workshop, "I loved hiding in the gruffalo's cave" said Kaley.