Exploring the book Mrs. Wishy Washy

Mrs. Wishy Washy written by Jo Cowley is a book that has been around since 1980. This was always one of my favourite books during school because I remember having such fun reading as a whole class while doing lots of different actions to accompany the text.

The book revolves around a cow, a pig and a duck getting dirty in the mud and when Mrs. Wishy Washy sees them, she decides to give them a scrub in the bath tub. After washing them, Mrs Wishy Washy goes back into her house and as soon as she does so, those naughty animals hop back into the mud!

Mrs. Wishy Washy was a fantastic book that our class explored last week and we had such fun reading it altogether! We found out that the 'sh' sound in Wishy and Washy related to some of our spelling words so we found it easy to read!

We got to act out the story using masks and we even had a tub and a scrubbing brush to get all those animals clean!

We then put our art skills to use and used colours to give Mrs. Wishy Washy some character. Here is some of the wonderful work from some children in our class.

We then completed an activity which made for a fun  text to self connection. We had to put ourselves in the position of the animals and think... what would we do if Mrs. Wishy Washy tried to give us a bath! Some of our responses got pretty creative!!

If you would like to share the story with your child at home, below is a slide share of the story. I have no doubts that they would love to read it to you!



Mrs Wishy Washy

Miss Prowse