Our next project is children's literature, looking at some of our favourite books and authors. Today was mainly focused on 'The Gruffalo' by Julia Donaldson...
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| Reading some of our Gruffalo themed books |
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| Reading the original Gruffalo story |
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| We then answered questions based on the story |
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| One of the 'foods' mentioned in the book is Gruffalo crumble, so we had a go at making some Gruffalo crumble muffins, using grated apple and oats |
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Our finished Gruffalo crumble muffins, complete with orange eyes!
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| Mixing the crumble topping |
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| We put out some canes for our pea plants to climb up |
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| We played a Gruffalo edition of 'would you rather' in the front garden |
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| After doing a Gruffalo jigsaw, Zachary wanted to turn it into a new running game outside |
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Running for Zachary's Gruffalo game
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Trying to catch Zachary
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| Counting for hide and seek |
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| Zachary was delighted to notice that there are quite a few cherries growing on our tree! |
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| And gooseberries are coming too! |
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| Tahlia and Zachary want to make their own band out of things around the house |
As Daddy is working quite a bit next week, we decided we'd have our special Gruffalo lunch today...
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| Scrambled snake, roasted fox, fried mouse, Gruffalo tusks and poisonous warts! |
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| They really enjoyed trying everything |
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| Afterwards, we enjoyed owl ice cream... |
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| ...and Gruffalo crumble! |
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| While Mummy went to set up the next activity, everyone else watched 'The Gruffalo's Child' |
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| Having a rest |
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| Next, we headed to Mincinglake Valley Park for a Gruffalo themed treasure hunt |
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| Collecting a character from the orchard |
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| Very pleased with himself |
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| No rest for Daddy! |
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| Tahlia used her hat to collect interesting things which she plans to take home and put in her treasure box |
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| Jory and Zachary loved running on ahead to find them all |
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| Tahlia took photos of some of the things she found on the walk |
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| Doing some colouring when we got back |
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| Rearranging the letters to form a Julia Donaldson character not featured in the pictures; it's three words (not necessarily the word length shown here) - can anyone guess the character? |
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Zachary did a Gruffalo themed wordsearch
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What a Exciting day you all had and the food looked really good well done love Jacqui ♥️ xx
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