We're Going on a Bear Hunt: 1 (CBH Children / Picture Books)

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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.

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Act out the whole of Bear Hunt with only occasional references to the book. Children should now know most of it by heart. With the children’s help, collect together different sorts of soil from different places, using plastic washing-up bowls to collect each sample. Gradually begin to add water to each sample, using a container such as a yoghurt pot to measure out the amount of water used. Talk with the children about what they see happening as they mix the mud: Build language skills through this art experience by Learning With Play at Home.—> Language and Art Idea We’re Going on a Bear Hunt is a fantastic, memorable romp of a story that sweeps children up in the adventure from the very first line. Written by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, this well-loved picture book provides the perfect opportunity to explore things on a bigger scale both indoors and out. Role play goes large!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 Grab the free emergent reader printable shared above. It’s a thank you gift when you become a free member of the Growing Book by Book community. Introduce to children at the beginning of the week, send a copy home to share with parents, rehearse and chant throughout the week, waiting to go to lunch, for fun! Develop performance and add actions.

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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. This story is suitable for children from aged 2 to about 6 years old. It can be simply read, or it can be read and discussed. Pictures can be heavily relied upon for younger children, while the language used can be made to increase the engagement for older children around 5 or 6 years. Plant some grass seed both inside and outside and watch the grass grow. Carefully document and record its progress with photographs and drawings. The Imagination Tree shares storytelling spoons perfect to use for retelling the story.—> Storytelling Spoons

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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… Press the grasses into thin plates of clay to make impressions or to add texture to the clay itself. 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!” Read Funnybones , encouraging children to join in with the repetitive phrase. Compare with We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. Which story do you prefer? Why?

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This story begs to be sequenced and retold. And, physically acting it out is so smart. This idea from Rainy Day Mum encourages the use of language to describe your retelling.—> Act it Out Idea The former Labour leader was suspended from the party in 2020 after he rejected the overall findings of a report on Labour antisemitism, saying: “One antisemite is one too many, but the scale of the problem was also dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by much of the media.” 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).Introduce to children part-way through the week and discuss how, like Little Rabbit Foo Foo, someone has been naughty! Four young kids, along with (who we assume to be) their father, display bravery and a deep sense of adventure as they squelch and squerch through the mud, as they stumble and trip through the big, dark forest and as they splash and splosh through the deep, cold river in search for a bear!