As well as dressing up, role play with props, masks and puppets, children have been talking about and retelling one of their favourite core stories ‘The Three Little Pigs’. Children problem-solved together building gigantic straw, stick and brick houses using a variety of resources and techniques from cutting, sticking and printing. They thought carefully about materials needed to make their houses strong. Children collected and counted natural materials such as sticks, leaves and blossoms from the garden to make their stick house. They had fun exploring different sensory materials as part of their play around this story.

“I’m the chef. I cooked some pancakes and then a pig come in ‘oink’, ‘oink’ and then a bad dog came in and then a person came in and asked, “Can I have some pizza?”
“Pig eating, wolf coming. Get house! Run faster! Go! Go! Go!”
“A Big Bad Wolf blow the house down. A grandma, she chased the wolf.”
“The straw blows around. It go all on the floor.”
“The little pig went in the cave.”
“He gone to get the Bad Wolf.”
“Little pig, little pig, let me come in.”
“Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin.”
“Then I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down.”
“The little pig went in the cave.”
“That’s because the Big Bad Wolf knocked on the door.”
“The little pigs went outside. The Big Bad Wolf going to eat them.”
“Huff, puffs and he blows the house down.”
“There was a Big Bad Wolf that wanted to eat the pigs. He huffed, puffed and blew the houses down except the brick house. The pigs lived happily ever after.”
“I’m going to build a whole house with bricks. It’s strong so that the wolf can’t blow it down. If it’s made of straw, it will fall down when the wolf blows it.”
“See how many sticks I got! Let’s count. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.”