Supertato and the Evil Pea!

We have had a very interesting week as we have been studying the book Supertato by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet. The children are learning to put actions to the story, to help them to retell the story in the correct sequence as well as remember key words which link the story together. They were interested in the villain of the story, the Evil Pea, and found his antics to be very amusing!

Evil Pea gave them a challenge to help his friends by counting them and picking them up using tweezers. This gave the children the opportunity to rehearse counting objects accurately and practice their fine motor skills at the same time. We ended up with chickpeas everywhere and a science investigation into what might happen if we added water to the test tube and left the chickpeas overnight? (All this because of a very rainy morning on Tuesday). The result was that the chickpeas soaked up all of the water and became bigger and more mushy.

Please take a look at some photographs of our learning time.