Bears
- 15/05/22
From a Tiny Seed
This week we continued to explore the journey of The Tiny Seed. At the beginning of the week, we worked in groups to write captions for illustrations from the book. These are displayed on a wall in class, and they help us to retell The Tiny Seed journey. Finally, we have observe...Read Full Story - 08/05/22
The Bears have Greenfingers
This week, the Bears were introduced to the story of The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. In the classroom, our role-play area became a florist and on our small world area we created flower arrangements. Outside we have started to grow some fruit, vegetables, and plants. We have...Read Full Story - 30/04/22
Our Class Beanstalk has Grown...
but not much is happening in our bean jars. Maybe like Jasper, we need to wait until one day something changes. Let's hope it isn't a long, long, long time later! We have been very busy on our writing table this week. We finished our instructional writing for planting...Read Full Story - 23/04/22
A Week Full of Beans
Our summer term begins with a new topic - Come Outside! Our story of the week, Jasper's Beanstalk, introduced us to Jasper, a frustrated gardener who wants to grow a beanstalk. The Bears have planted beans this week - I hope we don't have the same troubles! Our classroom is now...Read Full Story - 02/04/22
Reunited for some Easter Fun
In our last week before the Easter holidays, we completed our Traditional Tale journey and enjoyed some Easter activities together. We have enjoyed the Grandma's cottage role-play and the Little Red Riding Hood small world. We just love to dress up in Bears! On the writing table w...Read Full Story - 27/03/22
Little Red Riding Hood and a very odd week
A new week and a new traditional tale - Little Red Riding Hood. Sadly I was not in school (COVID got me) to deliver the learning that I planned and had made resources for. But fortunately the dream team of Mrs Amos, Mrs Chandler and Miss Lampard were, and what a great job they did!Read Full Story - 19/03/22
Super Storytellers
We have continued our Traditional Tale learning this week with Goldilocks and the Three Bears. It has been fantastic to see the children retell the story with confidence, using character voices and story vocabulary in role-play, the small world, with their puppets and story maps. On Friday we...Read Full Story - 12/03/22
Goldilocks, the 3 Bears and Covid Visit Our Class
It has been an interesting week in our Bears classroom, with numbers dwindling as the week progressed. For those that have stayed well and in school, we have continued our Traditional Tales topic with the Goldilocks and Three Bears story.Read Full Story - 05/03/22
Pancakes, World Book Day and More
It has been an incredibly fun but busy week for the Bears. At the beginning of the week, we celebrated Shrove Tuesday with pancake races, and we found out that flipping pancakes is not that easy! Later in the day we warmed fresh pancakes (not the ones used in the pancake races earlier), added our...Read Full Story - 27/02/22
Traditional Tales
This week we began our Traditional Tales topic with the story of The Three Little Pigs. Our role-play has transformed into a construction site and the small world area supports the children to retell the Three Little Pigs story.Read Full Story - 12/02/22
A Week of Investigation, Observation and Discovery
This week we finished our Colour and Pattern topic and said a sad goodbye to our space station classroom. It has been a fantastic week full of exciting opportunities for learning and development.Read Full Story - 05/02/22
The Aliens Are Stealing Underpants
This week we stepped into space with our story of the week 'Aliens Love Underpants'. Our role-play transformed into a space station and on the small world we have retold the story with aliens, rockets and a washing line of pants. On Monday we wrote our weekend news in our writing...Read Full Story