How to wash a gruffalo

This week we have been learning all about instructions. We began by learning the story of 'how to wash a woolly mammoth', which if you ask, the children should be able to remember from our text map...

Let me know in the comments if any of you tried this at home!

Next, we had a go at changing parts of the story to make our own about how to wash a gruffalo. In small groups, we used post it notes on a box up of the original story to show which parts we might change. 

We then took part in a 'shared write' as a class, where we wrote our own stories. Some of us filled in missing parts alongside teacher modelled work and several of us wanted to write our own from scratch. 

Today, we decided it would be fun to have a go at making our own magic gruffalo cleaning potions using lots of magic ingredients. To find out how much of each ingredient to use, we had to solve the number clues. These included some of our work that we have been doing on number bonds to 20 (any extra work with these bonds e.g. 15+5=20, 13+7=20 at home would be FAB - flashcards, snap, youtube songs, memory games etc. We are thinking about how our existing knowledge of bonds to 10 5+5, 3+7 help us know our bonds to 20.) When we had solved a clue, we left more clues for our friends to find by thinking of different ways to make the number. 

Of course, once we had found the ingredients needed, they needed a good mix! Here are the finished results. Be sure to ask your child how you should use the potion to wash a gruffalo, they have all made a fab set of directions for the potions too! A fantastic week of very hard work from all and I am incredibly proud. Well done. Have a super weekend.