We're going on a bear hunt...

This week we have had a bear theme, we have provided lots of activities inspired by Goldilocks and the three bears and We're going on a bear hunt by Michael Rosen.

The children have been able to develop their mathematical language by sorting the three bears into appropriate sized baskets. We have heard lots of lovely language such as 'big, small, middle size, large, huge, giant, medium, little, tiny and enormous'.

We also asked the children to make beds that would be the right size for the three bears using construction bricks.

After reading the story 'We're going on a bear hunt' the children made some lovely sensory collages to represent all the places the family in the story go through on their hunt for the bear. We used strips of paper for the long wavy grass, blue foam shapes for the splashy sploshy river, sponge dabbers in brown paint for the squelchy mud and cotton wool for the swirling whirling snow storm.

  

We also decided to make some group art work based on the story for our display. We used lots of material to create our wonderful collages then we added the onomatopoeic language from the story.

Next week we ill be using the story Jack and the beanstalk to base our activities and will be visiting the Horniman museum.