Bears
- 10/05/25
Come Outside - Jasper's Beanstalk
A new topic as we start our summer term - Come Outside! Our classroom is now decorated with lush green beanstalks and beautiful blossom trees. Inspired by the blossom trees around us, we painted trees with pink and white fingerprinted blossoms, and created chocolate playdough bloss...Read Full Story - 02/05/25
Traditional Tales - Little Red Riding Hood
The Big Bad Wolf is back in our last traditional tale, Little Red Riding Hood. Our role play transformed into Granny's cottage, and we played the character roles of Little Red Riding Hood, Granny, and the Wolf. On small world we retold the traditional tale using a forest scene, Granny...Read Full Story - 26/04/25
Traditional Tales - Goldilocks and the Three Bears
No Big Bad Wolf in our new traditional tale. Instead, we have a golden-haired girl on the rampage, breaking furniture and eating other people's food - welcome Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Our role-play transformed into Three Bears cottage. Then one morning, the Bears arrived...Read Full Story - 26/04/25
Traditional Tales - The Three Little Pigs
It is the second half of our Spring term and a new Traditional Tales topic. Our first traditional tale is the story of The Three Little Pigs. We discussed how a traditional tale is usually an old story that has been passed down for many years. There can be different versions, but usually some d...Read Full Story - 17/02/25
Colour and Pattern with Aliens Love Underpants
Aliens who love stealing pants landed in our Bears class, as we explored the Aliens Love Underpants story written by Clare Freedman and Ben Cort. We took a small step into space to play and build our understanding through a space station role-play experience and our small world helped us to ret...Read Full Story - 09/02/25
Colour and Pattern with Elmer
A parade of patchwork elephants stomped into the Bears classroom to make it bright, colourful and elephant themed. On the creative table, we covered a milk bottle with tissue paper in a patchwork effect to create Elmer. We were encouraged to think about our patchwork design and mak...Read Full Story - 25/01/25
Colour and Pattern with the Rainbow Fish
We started the spring term with a new Colour and Pattern theme and the shiny shimmering Rainbow Fish. The Rainbow Fish is a lovely story of sharing and the happiness that sharing can bring yourself and others. The story shows how difficult sharing can be and the impact that sharing can hav...Read Full Story - 02/01/25
Let's Celebrate Christmas
In the countdown to Christmas, our Christmas classroom experiences were based around the story of The Jolly Christmas Postman, written by Allan and Janet Ahlberg. On small world we retold the story of the Christmas postman as he delivered greetings to the fairy-tale characters. In rol...Read Full Story - 03/12/24
Let's Celebrate Weddings
This week we celebrated weddings with repetition and rhyme in The Scarecrows' Wedding story written by Julia Donaldson. The Bears re-enacted and adapted the scarecrows' wedding story with the characters, animals and props on small world. In role-play, we dressed to c...Read Full Story - 03/12/24
Let's Celebrate Birthdays
Another week and another celebration, with birthdays and the story Kipper's Birthday by Mick Inkpen. On small world we retold the story of Kipper's birthday. The day before Kipper's birthday, he prepares his party invitations and makes a cake. He invites everyone to his party tomorr...Read Full Story - 24/11/24
Let's Celebrate Diwali
The Bears celebrated Diwali, the Festival of Lights. Our role-play area was transformed into a bright Diwali home celebration, decorated with our colourful paper lanterns and rangoli patterns. We coloured and wrote Diwali cards for our friends, then took them to our Diw...Read Full Story - 09/11/24
Let's Celebrate Fireworks
A new half-term brings a new theme: "Let's Celebrate," beginning with fireworks as our first celebration! Our story of the week, Hovis the Hedgehog, is a story about a poor hedgehog who lost his home on a firework night. The Bears loved listening to the story of Hovis and followin...Read Full Story