Bears
- 03/12/23
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 - 02/12/23
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 - 22/11/23
Let's Celebrate Diwali
The Bears celebrated Diwali, the Festival of Lights. Our role play area 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 Diwali...Read Full Story - 15/11/23
Let's Celebrate Fireworks
A new half-term and a new topic - Let's Celebrate, and our first celebration experience fireworks. Our story of the week Hovis the Hedgehog by Lynda Leigh-Crawford and Lawrence David, a story about a poor hedgehog who lost his home on firework night. The Bears loved listening to t...Read Full Story - 15/11/23
Super Me!
To finish our All About Me topic, the Bears transformed into superheroes as we shared the adventures of Supertato, written by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet. When an Evil Pea is on the loose, Supertato, the world's first potato superhero, is just who you need to keep the supermarket a...Read Full Story - 20/10/23
Funnybones - My Body
We have been learning about our bodies with the spooky and imaginative story Funnybones, written by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. On small world, we used the skeleton characters to retell the story and, if we were brave enough, we added our mini-me characters into the dark, dark adventures...Read Full Story - 03/10/23
All About Me
Our topic for our first half-term is All About Me. It is a perfect start as we get to know our new Bears, as they settle into school and make new friends. We are building our class community, and we are embracing our uniqueness and individuality too. We started our to...Read Full Story - 22/07/23
Mad About Dinosaurs
Inspired by the colourful, rhyming picture book Mad About Dinosaurs, the Bears finished their first year in school discovering dinosaur fossils and identifying dinosaurs. We played in a dinosaur museum role play and ventured into a dinosaur habitat on our small world. We pract...Read Full Story - 08/07/23
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
As part of our All Creatures Great and Small topic, we were introduced to a colourful but very hungry caterpillar. On our small world we retold and sequenced The Very Hungry Caterpillar story and in role play, we were scientists identifying, classifying and grouping minibeasts. Most of our mi...Read Full Story - 24/06/23
Our Trip to the Farm
On a hot sunny day, filled with excitement, the Bears boarded the coach to take us to Barleylands Farm. We were off on our first school trip. On arrival, we set down our packed lunches in the large Barleylands Barn where we would eat lunch. Then we began the general...Read Full Story - 24/06/23
The Enormous Turnip
We began our new topic All Creatures Great and Small with the Russian folk tale The Enormous Turnip. In role play, we have shopped and worked in a farm shop, learning about vegetables and farm shop products while developing our concept of money, creating price labels and working a cash till. On smal...Read Full Story - 31/05/23
Come Outside - The Tiny Seed
The Tiny Seed is a beautifully descriptive book that describes the journey of a seed as it survives through the seasons, to grow into a giant flower. It was the perfect finale for our Come Outside topic. Inspired by Eric Carle's front cover illustration, we recreated our own tiny se...Read Full Story