Hopefully you've had a chance to check out our new big idea for this half-term: Keyworth Primary and Nursery School - BOOKS, BOOKS, BRILLIANT BOOKS!

Over the next couple of weeks, we will be exploring these big idea questions: 

• 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.

Last week we shared the brilliant book 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. The children loved it! They were so confident re-calling  key parts and using story language from the book. We particularly liked their different voices for the different characters!

This week, we will be introducing our talk for write a story to the children.... 'We're going on a bear hunt'. 

Watch the Author, Michael Rosen performing the story below:

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 picnic? 
• 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 about 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 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.
• (F2) Keep up with those doodles! Little and often. Mrs King is monitoring.