They were in their village, being rat catchers, spinsters, millers and so on, when they noticed a stranger on the village green. She was tired and her clothes were scruffy, but she had a battered crown on her head!
She explained that she was a Queen, but that she had lost her kingdom. The children were keen to help her - they brought her food and water, cut her hair (thank goodness we had some barbers in our village) and took care of her. Then she invited them to become her new order of knights! She wanted them to go with her on a quest to establish a new kingdom.
The children discussed this - some were keen to leave, others weren't sure they wanted to leave their beautiful village of Wheat Hill. Eventually they held a vote. It was decided they would all go with the Queen.
We spent a session making 'medieval' bags from paper, string, tape and glue. The children added items they might need for the journey (looking at images to compare now and then). At dawn the next day, they rose from their beds and went to meet the Queen.
However... she wasn't there! It seems she panicked - she left a letter saying she was worried that the villagers might betray her, like her other knights did. She asked them to promise to look after her. The villagers were disappointed that she wasn't there, but were keen to write some promises so that the Queen would know she could trust them. The Year 1 children did their writing on Thursday, and the Reception children did theirs on Friday - they attached their promises to the village sign for the Queen to find.
On Monday, we will find out what happens next in our story.
Phonics this week:
Reception children recapped 'or' and looked at 'ur' and 'ir'.
You could practise this by completing the or word maze, and if you get on well with that, move on to the ur and ir word maze.
Year 1 children looked at a_e and e_e. They will have a spelling challenge next Friday. They have asked to have their own spelling challenge books, so the spelling challenges will begin to be individual rather than team-based from this point on.
The words for next week's challenge are here. Please encourage your child to learn the ones higher up on the list. If they are very confident spellers, learn the others too!
Maths this week:
Reception have continued to work on 'one more' and 'one less' up to twenty. We played a game which you could play at home. The instructions are here.
Year 1 have begun some work on fractions. We focussed on half of an object, picture or amount. This is a great one to practice around the house, halving food, paper shapes, playdough objects and so on. The children have learnt that a half is one of two equal groups. The key word is 'equal'.
Have a good weekend and I will see you on Monday!
Miss Nash
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