Hopefully you've had chance to check out our new big idea for this half term: Books, Books, Brilliant Books!

Over the next couple of weeks, we will be sharing these texts and answering our big idea question's

• Can you re-tell a story?
• Can you describe the setting of a story? (using We're Going on a Bear Hunt to support this)
• Can you describe the characters in a story? (Using Goldilocks and the Three Bears to support this).

We will be drawing simple story maps and acting out the stories to help the children remember and re-call them.

This week we have started sharing the brilliant book 'We're going on a Bear Hunt',  the children are loving it! They are already so confident re-calling the different settings and story language used in the book (e.g. 'thick oozy mud' 'deep cold river'). Next week, we will be going on a 'Bear Hunt adventure' across school to try and find a bear ourselves!

Have a listen to the story at home (and Michael Rosen, the Author performing it himself!)

Here is the Goldilocks and the Three Bears Story that we will be sharing in school:

We will also be singing this song linked to the Goldilocks story:

Here is the vocabulary that we will be sharing with the children for 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'

• Can you have a teddy bear's picnic at home? 
• Can you share any books from home or find any in the library that feature a bear in them?
• Watch this episode of Andy's Wild Adventures finding out all about black bears that live in North America.
• Can you play hide and seek with a teddy bear in your house? Can you or a grown up use positional language to describe where the bear is hiding (e.g. under, behind, next to, between, on top, in front etc).
• Can you play this Teddy Bear's picnic careful counting game?

• Remember to enjoy sharing stories and record these in your reading diary-the school expectation is to read at least 3 times a week and get along the way to collecting the next reading award!
  (F2) practising your speedy sound cards, or doing any reading or writing activity can also count as an entry.
• Can you send in a picture on tapestry sharing your children's favourite story? We will be using these throughout our topic and sharing them during show and tell sessions. 
• (F2) Keep up with those doodles! Little and often. Mrs King is monitoring which class is in the lead.