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

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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… 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. Get in a little yoga while retelling the story with this bear hunt themed yoga practice by Cosmic Kids.—> Yoga Routine 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). Act out the whole of Bear Hunt with only occasional references to the book. Children should now know most of it by heart.

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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? 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! 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.Plan in chunks of time to observe the children’s play in the role-play area, and allow yourself regular opportunities to get involved in the play itself. This will not only show the children how much you value their play, but will also enable you to model and encourage particular language structures and to demonstrate ways in which language can be used. Let’s investigate! Buggy and Buddy share a handmade map idea perfect for working on spatial recognition and directionality.—-> Map Activity

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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. 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: The book doesn’t date. For more than thirty years readers have been enjoying and learning from this book, and will continue to do so well into the future. 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 illustrationsThis 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!” 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. There are a myriad of learning opportunities here. Teachers and parents can use this story to inspire and to prompt discussions and lessons on environments, on language, and it can be used for drama and dramatic representations. You can take a look HERE at some online suggestions for learning experiences based on Bear Hunt. 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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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. The Imagination Tree shares storytelling spoons perfect to use for retelling the story.—> Storytelling Spoons Press the grasses into thin plates of clay to make impressions or to add texture to the clay itself.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?

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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?

Introduce to children part-way through the week and discuss how, like Little Rabbit Foo Foo, someone has been naughty!