This week in Reception, we are reading the story ‘The
Rainbow Fish’ by Marcus Pfister. Today, we were lucky enough to have a special visitor take us on an imaginary underwater
adventure into the world of The Rainbow Fish!
As we got into our boats, Benjamin
commented that his was a “speedboat”.
The children had great fun exploring ocean life using their
senses; listening to the sound of the waves made by instruments, smelling salty
sea air, feeling shells and stones and looking at pictures and models of coral.
“I can hear waves” said Amelie. “I can hear the sea!” Exclaimed David.
Next, the children chose different ways of moving to represent different sea creatures. Merkhima did a great impression of a puffer fish and Eduard explained how the lantern
fish “puts light in front” so it can
see.
The children then reinforced their knowledge of the story by
dressing up and acting it out.
"I’m the
blue fish” said Gracie.
At the end of the session, the Rainbow Fish shared his scales
with the children. During the discussion of the story, Isabel concluded that “we’ve got to share”. Acting out the
story really helped the children to identify the key messages of the book. As
Nevaeh put it very neatly - “sharing is
caring!”
Well done Reception!
