You Can't Take An Elephant On the Bus (You Can’t Let an Elephant...)

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In the afternoon of that day, all 300 children and our team will form a human rainbow at the entrance to our school. I would be challenging children to think is that ‘can’t’ as in ‘you’re not allowed to’ or ‘can’t’ as in ‘it’s simply not possible? Children will enjoy the silliness of this book and the familiar font and layout will naturally draw some children to it – it looks very much like a Lauren Child ‘Charlie and Lola’ picture book. Children discuss which vehicles they have tried; they share their reason for travelling and describe how it felt.

The story gives us some ideas as to why we can’t but I would want my children to think of some of the cause/effect reasons for themselves. Published by MA Education Limited, St Jude's Church, Dulwich Road, Herne Hill, London SE24 0PB, a company registered in England and Wales no. So, having brought these kinds of questions to the forefront of children’s minds I would then start to talk about the rules we have at the setting. In the mean we would like to explain that parents attending with us will be doing so as support for the class teachers not as an accompaniment for their child.

On a final note the weather next week is going to be especially chilly, please make sure your child is wrapped up warm! Purple: playing ‘animal twister’– like the traditional twister game but replacing the colours with animals. I think it’s important that children think about the rules that are in place, and consider the reasons why they are there. As part of the University and County wide commitment to equality, the school, together with Eddington and the University, is ending LGBT+ month by making a human rainbow.

We have been writing about what would happen if we had a giraffe or a lion or a crocodile or a elephant as a pet. Our focus this week has been what makes a good pet, we have learnt that there are many animals that would not make a good pet.This riotous picture book is filled with animals causing total disaster as they try to travel in the most unsuitable vehicles. The aspect of this book that captured my attention more than anything else were the exciting possibilities of using it to challenge children’s philosophical thinking. Yellow Challenge: looking at a scene from our story Spots or Stripes and writing our noun phrases “stripey tiger”, “spotty leopard”, etc.