The little red hen

Listen to the foxes retelling the story of ‘The Little Red Hen.’ Miss Sullivan and Mrs Lewis taught us the story actions and we all joined in with the repetitive phrases. Listen to how we change our voices for all of the characters.

Tuesday morning was very exciting. When we got to school we had received a letter from the Lister hen…

We were able to read lots of the key words; we recognised them from our phonics learning.

We decided that we should write story maps to read to our Lister hen. Miss Sullivan and Mrs Lewis wanted to see some labels and speech bubbles. We worked every hard to sound out the character’s names and used our sound mats to remind us of the graphemes we needed.

Some children used an ipad app called puppet pals to narrate their own puppet show of ‘ The little red hen.’ They played their stories for the Lister chickens. Can you hear their clear voices? Did they include everything from the story? Some of the children worked hard to include extra detail into their version of the story. We thought about adjectives...listen out for any descriptive words.

When we had finished writing our story maps we wrapped up warm and took them outside, into the garden, to the chicken coop! The hens were excited to see us. Mrs Scarisbrick fed them some grass and they came close to the fence so that they could hear the story. We all told our stories using loud, clear voices. The chickens made a lot of clucking noises; we thought that perhaps they wanted to bake some bread as well.

We then stood on the garden stage and performed the story chorally for the Lister chickens to enjoy. ….

After our busy morning we went back inside and enjoyed a tasty snack of home baked bread, we kneaded the dough on Monday afternoon just like the little red hen. We didn’t have to grow our own grain or cut, thresh and grind the wheat though! Mrs Lewis bought a bag of flour from the shops. We all worked together. No-one had to ‘Do it themselves.’