Today during our little Time to Talk session we read a story called

We talked about the meaning of the word foolish. 

The story was about a fox who didn't want to do all the work on his farm and so he asked the sheep to do it for him.  The sheep tricked the fox by saying they would if they could have half of the food.  The sheep asked the fox which half he would like.  The fox chose the top half and so this is what happened. 

The sheep planted turnips and when they grew they gave the top half to the fox and they kept the lovely turnip which has grown on the bottom half of the plant. 

The fox was cross and so next time he asked for the bottom half.  The sheep then planted corn and gave the fox the bottom half keeping the juicy corn at the top of the plant for themselves. 

Poor fox, he decided that he would have to do all the work himself so he could keep both the top and the bottom of the plants. 

We then played a game and had to decide which half of the plant we wanted.  If we wanted the top half we stood up and if we wanted the bottom half we stayed sitting down. 

Mrs Barker then drew a plant on the board showing how it would look in the ground.  It was fun to see which part we ended up with.    Which half would you like?