The Foggy, Foggy Forest

This afternoon we talked about fog and read a great book called The Foggy, Foggy Forest. On every page there are dark shapes you can't see clearly in the forest because of the fog, and it asks "What can this be in the foggy, foggy forest?" We made predictions about what could be hiding in the fog. Then on the next page we could see what it was, for example, "A little elf all by himself" and "Three brown bears in picnic chairs". We realised that the answers had rhyming words in them and we used this to help us guess what might be on the other pages.

After reading the story we talked about our own experiences of fog and looked at some photographs of fog.

Then it was time for our challenge - to make another page for the book The Foggy, Foggy Forest! We worked in groups and had to work together as a team, sharing jobs and listening to each other's ideas. Each group came up with their own idea about what could be in the foggy, foggy forest. We drew the pictures on black paper and cut them out. We then stuck them onto grey paper and used charcoal pencils to draw trees in the background. On this page we wrote, "What can this be in the foggy, foggy forest?" We also had to draw a coloured picture for the next page. We stuck these on the grey paper with more dark trees in the background, and on this page we wrote the answer.

This is what we wrote:

What can this be in the foggy, foggy forest?

A cat on a mat.

(Maddie, Jamie, Harry, Olivia, Hope, Matthew and Lilly)

What can this be in the foggy, foggy forest?

Goldilocks with smelly socks.

(Grace, Trystan, Lucy, Aaron, Lexi and Ollie)

Then we read the whole book again with our new pages in the middle, and the other group had to guess who was hiding in the foggy, foggy forest!