John Burningham has also written and illustrated some very popular stories. The book 'Oi Get Off Our Train' has a very strong message about the conservation of animals. The train we made was full of animals that needed protection and it travelled up the stairwell of our school!!
Another one of John Burningham's stories is 'Avocado Baby' which is about a baby who becomes extraordinarily strong after eating an avocado pear!! We wondered if this would happen to us if we ate all our fruit and vegetables!!
He also wrote Mr. Gumpy's Outing and Mr. Gumpy's Motor Car. We experimented with a toy boat and several plastic animals, as featured in the story, to predict what we thought would happen if we added more and more to the boat and how many animals it would hold before the boat sank. It was great to try out our ideas, then observe and reflect on what actually happened.

 

We spent time preparing food for a vegetable stir fry meal as part of our celebration for Chinese New Year. This involved skills such as chopping and grating. This is a fun way to improve our fine motor skills which we need for learning to write. Then we had a go at trying to eat with chopsticks which required lots of concentration!!