Hazel class - fully engaging in the tunnel experience

Hazel Class have thoroughly enjoyed book week this week. It has been great to see all the children enjoying their reading and sharing stories together. We have had favourite books bought in to school including one with life size pictures of animals and plants in, including a rather terrifying looking tarantula. We have also had some hand written stories bought in and shared. It is so exciting to see members of our class enjoying stories so much that they want to write their own in their own time, we even have one boy who is keen to become an author when he is older. 

In our writing sessions in Hazel class, containing a mix of the three year 1/2 classes, we have been exploring the book 'The Tunnel' by Anthony Browne. The children have loved looking at this book and have studied the images in the book to make predictions and infer the characters thoughts, feelings and reasons for actions. They have also been writing some excellent descriptive sentences by looking in detail at some of the amazingly illustrated images and writing what they can see but also by fully engaging in the tunnel experience by climbing through their own tunnel and seeing what it might have been like for the girl in the story. 

The children have shown a great amount of empathy towards the world while we have spent time looking at the book, 'Little Turtle turns the tide' by Lauren Davies. They have had some great ideas as to how to reduce plastic and are keen to look after our world more, especially our oceans. Please encourage the children to do what they can to help reduce, reuse and recycle.