Yr2 Pumpkin Soup

Date: 10th Nov 2022 @ 3:43pm

“Pumpkin Soup” by Helen Cooper

We continued our work from last week by recapping the characters in the story and what happened to cause the three main characters (Duck, Squirrel and Cat) to argue and fall out.

This week we looked at Duck and tried to work out what caused him to go from a happy, friendly Duck to becoming a frustrated, angry and cross duck.

Working on the board we came up with a time line and reasons for the event.

In small groups the children came up with reasons for why Duck had reacted the way he did and reasons why the other animals reacted the way they did.

We then used “hot seating” and the class worked as detectives to ask questions, trying to get to the truth.

Y2 used excellent vocabulary and imagination. I was blown away with Zachary, who really got in to the roll of “Duck” and just seemed to have an answer for any question posed to him. Well done everyone, brilliant work.