Suggest the children test out how good each of the mud samples is for making mud pies. Before they begin, use shared writing to list the characteristics of a good mud pie. Ask the children to test each bowl of mud in turn to create their own pies, then use a range of materials to decorate and embellish the pies.

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Get ready to go large with these bear-sized activities and investigations! Jane Bunting offers creative ideas to get the most from We’re Going on a Bear Hunt…Once the book has been introduced and re-read a few times, suggest to the children that they might like to change the role-play area to fit with this story world. Talk together with them to share ideas about how this might be done, for example, what do you think the bear’s den would be like? I love this pre-writing activity on big chart paper from Teach Investigate Play.—-> Pre-writing Idea We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen recently celebrated 25 years in print. Decades of children chanting, acting out, and enjoying this classic book about traveling through the grass, river, mud, forest, blizzard, and cave to find the bear.

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Put on the waders for we are headed on a bear hunt. Yep, time for some We’re Going on a Bear Hunt activities. Just one of the book activities posts you’ll find here on Growing Book by Book. Read The Elephant and the Bad Baby, encouraging children to join in with the repeated phrase. Compare with Little Rabbit Foo Foo. Which do children prefer? Why?Plant some grass seed both inside and outside and watch the grass grow. Carefully document and record its progress with photographs and drawings. Once children have got to know We’re Going on a Bear Hunt well by hearing it read aloud and through acting it out, they will enjoy concrete opportunities to explore and investigate some of the story’s ideas for themselves… Introduce to children part-way through the week and discuss how, like Little Rabbit Foo Foo, someone has been naughty! This award winning favorite is an entertaining adventure and a literary classic. It combines fun and adventure with suspense and surprise. It mixes alliteration and repetition to make for a story kids will love to revisit as they make predictions, recall the story events and repeat the phrases, “We can’t go over it. We can’t go under it. Oh no! We’ve got to go through it!” The children will have lots of practical suggestions for how their role-play area should be equipped and the sort of practical things that they will need for their play. Encourage them to think about the different sorts of reading and written material that a bear’s den might contain. The addition of real examples of written materials such as leaflets, posters, diaries or calendars will not only provide authenticity for the role-play area but also develop children’s understanding of this sort of reading and writing.

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The Imagination Tree shares storytelling spoons perfect to use for retelling the story.—> Storytelling Spoons Children love large-scale dramatic play. It offers them an immediate route into another world and an opportunity to try out what it might be like to be somebody, or something, completely different. It provides a way for them to view the world through somebody else’s eyes and to explore how this other person or thing might feel. Perform the rhyme whilst clapping hands (it is a clapping-rhyme) and point to different children to be the robber! Rehearse on Thursday and Friday – send home for w/end.Read and act out the class version of ‘We’re all going on a ___ hunt’. Do we all know it off by heart? Use percussion instruments to create faster beats/tension as together you go on your bear hunt (M). Enjoy reading the book with students and also make sure to watch Mr. Rosen read the story aloud in this video. We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Activities We Are Looking for the Bear Emergent Reader Read LRFF with children performing the repeated phrases with expression using the actions agreed last time. Set the repetitive refrain to music using wind instruments and soft percussion (EAD).

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Suggest to the children that they carry out a scientific investigation to find out what makes the best mud. What do they think the best mud is like? Where do they think they can find it? Read and enjoy We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. Notice repetition. Encourage children to join in wherever they can, enjoying the sounds of the words. Pause to look at and talk about illustrations As they approach the dark, gloomy cave and slowly tiptoe through, suspense builds and they discover the bear! Build language skills through this art experience by Learning With Play at Home.—> Language and Art Idea

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