Our Spring quest began when our 'Santa-Cam' picked up strange goings on during the Christmas holidays.  Footage shows a group of Gingerbread men scampering through our classroom!

We want to know where they came from? and what is their story?

The children recognised them as Gingerbreadmen and immediately began making traps to catch him.  

After reading his story in Drawing Club, children draw their predictions of what might have happened to him, IF he did try and swim across the river.  To test out their predictions, we made gingerbread men biscuits and put them in our water tray, saving some to eat, obviously!  As expected, he went 'soggy', 'smudgy' 'floppy' 'dissolved' 'sank to the bottom' 'mushy' and 'yucky'.

Along our journey, we have talked about lots of characters from stories and debated are they goodies or baddies?  We have read a lot of traditional tales, and versions of.  We have planted root vegetable seeds (turnips are out of season, so we planted parsnips) and hope they grow enormous, magic beans in the hope they will grow tall and tomatoes, because Angelos brought a huge selection of seeds and plants in from The Local Gardener Initiative UK (thank you!). 

Our quest now is to find out how we can make our own story.  We collaborate at snack time, testing ideas out for story problems, possible baddies that might make these problems happen and of course possible happy endings.  We have even had a demonstration on how a woodcutter could defeat a dinosaur by running up his tail, over his head and into his mouth to take out his 'razer-sharp' teeth.  It worked.