Jasper: Jasper's Beanstalk

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Share the poem and rehearse at suitable times throughout the week, e.g. start/end of the day. Help children vary the pitch and tone of their voice as they rehearse to stress the counting words. Hold up fingers to correspond to each number and generate an action, e.g. munch = snap mouth shut.

I like this story, as it is a nice way to introduce to the children the topic of changes and the life cycle of a bean. It allows the children to relate to what Jasper is doing and then carrying out the task themselves. The imagery is clear and simple, as well as the text, allowing for the children to start to learn the days of the week. Jasper wants to plant his own bean; the story goes through the different days of the week, showing what happens to Jasper's bean each day. He gets sad because his bean won’t grow. But then all of a sudden it grows into a large giant beanstalk and he gets excited he is sure there is a giant at the top!Language and Literacy - recall and sequence the story with the children. You could provide the children with story props and then encourage them to act out the story individually or with others.

Jasper's beanstalk probably has around 100 words in it, but manages to cover lots with them - days of the week, growth cycle of a plant, gardening vocabulary and techniques (some incorrectly used!) and the virtue of patience!

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The story is about Jasper the cat, who finds a bean on Monday, plants it on Tuesday and continues 'looking after it' until the following Monday when he digs it up believing it will never grow. of course the bean does grow (after a long, long, long time) showing that if Jasper had just been more patient he would have grown the beanstalk himself. Share The Tiny Seed. Reflect on why the tiny seed was able to germinate. Discuss what conditions seeds need to start growing. Help children to use because to provide reasons for ideas. This is a wonderful story for children in the EYFS. The story goes like this, on Monday Jasper plants a bean and every day of the week he tends to it to help it grow. A week later, after waiting, waiting and waiting, Jasper gets very frustrated and impatient as nothing has grown. He decides to pull the bean out and throws it away. A long, long, long time later, the bean grows into a lovely beanstalk. Jasper is glad and begins to look for giants.