Hello everyone. We were welcomed back to school from the long weekend by a fun and exciting puppet show. The story told was about a man who wanted to cut down a tree in the forest but three little acorns begged him not to because of the tree’s significance to the community. He listened to them and didn’t cut down the tree. They then granted him three wishes as a gesture of goodwill. The man, however used all these wishes by mistake. He initially planned of wishing to be rich and to live in a big house . Instead he wished for ①a sausage, ②to be able to eat the sausage through his nose and ③ to have it removed when it got stuck in his nose. It was a silly and funny story and everybody enjoyed it! We hope the students will be able to reflect back on the show when the times comes for us to start talking about the different ways of telling stories in the weeks to come.

We continued our inquiry about characters as one of the elements of a story. Our main focus this week was learning about or reviewing the vocabulary used to describe characters in stories by trying to guess the words written under the pictures everyone had to look at. We then listened to a story, “Slug wants a hug!” and chose one character from the story, drew a picture of that character and wrote what the character said, what they did and how they felt in the story. Our storytelling topic is already proving to be a fun and exciting one!

The weather has become much cooler and much more comfortable so we enjoyed walking to the park and moving our bodies energetically.

We did a Halloween pumpkin craft. They had to cut eyes, a nose and a mouth to make a pumpkin’s face. They then ‘colored’ the pumpkin by threading orange wool string in the holes around the circumference of the paper plate to make a zig zag pattern. They all said they enjoyed doing this craft. They worked on their fine motor skills by handling the string and cutting shapes. I guess we can say they killed two birds with one stone😁.

～The week ahead～Next week we will move on to talking about ”settings” and a “plot” as the other elements of a story.

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