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

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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! 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? 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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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…

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Activities

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. The children will have lots of practical suggestions for how their role-play area should be equipped and the sort of practical things that they will need for their play. Encourage them to think about the different sorts of reading and written material that a bear’s den might contain. The addition of real examples of written materials such as leaflets, posters, diaries or calendars will not only provide authenticity for the role-play area but also develop children’s understanding of this sort of reading and writing. I love this pre-writing activity on big chart paper from Teach Investigate Play.—-> Pre-writing Idea 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

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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). 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. 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.”

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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!

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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!

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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. Get in a little yoga while retelling the story with this bear hunt themed yoga practice by Cosmic Kids.—> Yoga Routine Buggy and Buddy share a handmade map idea perfect for working on spatial recognition and directionality.—-> Map Activity The Imagination Tree shares storytelling spoons perfect to use for retelling the story.—> Storytelling Spoons 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…