Bears
- 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 - 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