Bears
- 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 - 02/11/24
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 - 12/10/24
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 - 06/10/24
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 star...Read Full Story - 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