Wow! What an exciting morning Year One have had! We entered the classroom to find some spooky decorations, halloween music, spider's webs and a bubbling couldron! The children explored the classroom and talked about the different things that they could see before discussing as a class what we thought was inside the couldron. The children thought of some fabulous ideas such as witches fingers, frogs legs and even mouldy bread! One of the children then found the story 'Potion Commotion' and as a class, we sat down together to read it. 'Potion Commotion' is a rhyming book that tells a story about a little witch called Betty. Betty makes a stew for herself and her Mum to eat and fills the couldron with all of her favourite things. Together we found the words that rhyme and the children then used the exciting environment to create some fabulous literacy work. We have been writing lists of our favourite foods for our own witches stew, building a rhyming jigsaw, finishing rhyming couplets and practising our reading and comprehension skills by completing activities using playdough and playdough mats.