Bears
- 24/09/22
My Family
This week we have created and shared our own families, while reading The Large Family stories by Jill Murphy. Poor Mrs Large, she can't even have just five minutes' peace. On our practical table, we created loose parts families, using stones, shells, leaves, sticks and pet...Read Full Story - 18/09/22
All About Me
Welcome to Beckers Green Primary School and our Bears class blog. Our new Bears are quickly learning their new daily routines and building friendships. We are so pleased to see them settling into school brilliantly. Our half-term topic as we get to know our Bears, is called All Abou...Read Full Story - 17/07/22
Mad About Dinosaurs
We have been Mad About Dinosaurs for the final two weeks in the Bears class. Our story to share, Mad About Dinosaurs, is a colourful, rhyming picture book, full of fun dinosaur facts, written by Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz. Our small world became a dinosaur habitat for the childre...Read Full Story - 02/07/22
The Week we said Goodbye to the Very Hungry Caterpillar and our Classroom Butterflies
This week we finished our learning around the story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar and completed the writing in our own story books. We have created a butterfly lifecycle paper plate craft and observed and recorded the changes in our own live caterpillars. On Wednesday, our butter...Read Full Story - 02/07/22
Our Trip to Barleylands farm
We had a very excited group of Bears travelling on the coach to the farm. When we arrived, the Antelopes and the Bears split into their two classes, and the Bears headed to the classroom to make our layered rainbow salads with fruits and vegetables. We were excellent listeners, and followed the...Read Full Story - 22/06/22
A Busy Week Filled With Caterpillars, Sports, Sun and Ice Lollies
We are having a lovely final half-term together, filled with lots of fun, new and exciting things to do. This week it was our first sports day at school and next week we will take our first school trip to Barleylands Farm. In the classroom, our caterpillars are growing so fast and on Friday eveni...Read Full Story - 12/06/22
All Creatures Great and Small
We started our new topic All Creatures Great and Small, with the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. On small world, we can retell the story, using the story sequencing cards to support us. Our role-play area is now a Minibeast Investigation Station, with science equipment, technolo...Read Full Story - 30/05/22
Celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee
This week, the Bears went on a London adventure with our story of the week, The Queen's Hat, written by Steve Antony. On our small world, the Queen, her guards and a corgi chased the Queen's hat around the London landmarks. In the Queen's Hat, the wind went swish and blew the Que...Read Full Story - 21/05/22
Lots of Vegetables but no Enormous Turnips
Our story of the week was The Enormous Turnip but who knew that turnips (not even enormous ones) were impossible to find. This week we have explored vegetables, using our senses to help us describe and name them. Then we washed, peeled and chopped more vegetables (still no turnips) to make a...Read Full Story - 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