Bears
- 26/07/24
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 small world. We pra...Read Full Story - 24/07/24
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
We began our All Creatures Great and Small topic with a colourful but very hungry caterpillar. On small world, we sequenced the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Orally retelling a story is important for our reading and writing development. We wrote a list of the foods the Very Hungr...Read Full Story - 23/07/24
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 sma...Read Full Story - 23/07/24
Come Outside - The Tiny Seed
The Bears were introduced to the story of The Tiny Seed written by Eric Carle. 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. In our small world, we retold the journey of the tiny seed as it moved...Read Full Story - 11/05/24
Come Outside - Jasper's Beanstalk
A new topic as we start our summer term - Come Outside! Our classroom is decorated with lush green beanstalks and beautiful blossom trees. Inspired by the blossom trees around us, we painted trees with pink and white fingerprint blossoms, and created chocolate playdough blossom tre...Read Full Story - 27/04/24
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, the Wolf and the Woodcutter. On small world we retold the traditional tale using a forest...Read Full Story - 02/04/24
Traditional Tales - Goldilocks and the Three Bears
No Big Bad Wolf in our next 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 at sc...Read Full Story - 10/03/24
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 - 21/02/24
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 - 11/02/24
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 make sure...Read Full Story - 28/01/24
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 - 07/01/24
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