The Three Little Pigs

On a windy February morning green group took the three little pigs and the big bad wolf into the sandpit. We built a straw house, a stick house and a brick house. Imogen picked up the spade and started to dig a hole for the straw house. Harry C, Harry W, Isla, Millie, Joseph and Eliza collected sticks for the stick house. Isobel and Albert set to work on the brick house.

Isobel and Albert collected the balance blocks and made an enclosure, then used the pattern rollers to create a brick pattern. At first Albert walked on his pattern but soon realised he was making footprints so he carefully walked around his masterpiece.

The stick house was challenging but Eliza soon sorted the group out and carefully started burying the sticks in the sand. Harry and Joseph soon followed and carefully pushed the sticks deep into the sand.

Meanwhile, Imogen worked independently on the straw house putting the straw into the hole so it didn't blow away. She then suggested we might need a road, so the whole group built a road out of planks and pipe.

Happily,  we told the story of the Three Little Pigs, singing

“Little pig, little pig, let me in. Not by the hair on my chinny chin chin. Well we will huff and we will puff and we will blow your house in”

Then with a great big puff the children blew as hard as they could.

The wolf then climbed into the brick house and we all screamed as we fell into the pot!

Now the scene was set for their own adventures and the children started to retell the story in their own words

“Not by my chinny, chin chin” Isla exclaimed.

“I will blow your house down” Harry shouted.

“You can stay in our house if you don't tell the wolf” Harry W confirmed.

Eliza told Isla “I am going to build a bigger wall so the wolf cannot get in”

Albert told Isobel “I am building a wall”

Isobel replied “Can I help, shall we build a stick house?”

“I am going to make a hole for the wolf to go in” Imogen shouted.

As Harry tried to climb into the brick house growling like a wolf, Isla exclaimed “You cannot get in, we have not finished yet. We need to make a big mountain”

What a lovely story that shows how much you have all loved learning about The Three Little Pigs.