At school the term time topic for B1 is Fairy Tales with each week having a dedicated story - this week its the 3 little pigs so I thought I'd try a couple of activities at home with that topic.
First we started off with bacon and egg however I didn't explain where bacon came from! Then I scoured the bookshelves for the story - could I find it - NOPE! So off to Google I went to print it.
We all sat down for the short story of the 3 little pigs. Afterwards B1 and I looked at the main words and he practiced reading and spelling them using the phonemes hes learning at school in his homework book...
We did some basic colouring, I found fab printable's online and the boys set too in colouring in a set of pigs each and other sheets with the wolf and housing.
Printables: 3 Little Pig Printables
Then after some careful cutting out of the pigs it was off to the tuff spot for some building material experiments based on the story. I got some straw, sticks and blocks, and in order, got the boys to construct a house for their pigs..... Then after a countdown they had to pretend to be big bad wolves and blow them down!
Now it was snack time as they'd been very good and worked very hard ....
3 Little Pigs Snack
Straw chip sticks, salami wood sticks and brick chocolate buttons, together with Big Bad Wolf Juice (Chocolate milk) and a curly piggy tail straw!
So after a break we decided to look into force and motion on a very basic 4 year old level - coming from the force of wind used upon the houses in the story. I used the lid of their toy box, an old towel and the blocks again to make 3 different surfaces. Then they both picked some cars and they raced them down the ramp. OK so it wasn't 100% scientific but the car on the smoothest surface won as predicted which B1 found it very interesting explaining to me why he thought that car won :D
Inspiration drawn from: Force and Motion Experiment
The activities hopefully drew on topics including physics, art, creativity, reading, observation, role-play and team work! Dinnertime may consist of sausages :P
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