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

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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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As they approach the dark, gloomy cave and slowly tiptoe through, suspense builds and they discover the bear! Suggest the children test out how good each of the mud samples is for making mud pies. Before they begin, use shared writing to list the characteristics of a good mud pie. Ask the children to test each bowl of mud in turn to create their own pies, then use a range of materials to decorate and embellish the pies.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! 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. 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.

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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.Act out the whole of Bear Hunt with only occasional references to the book. Children should now know most of it by heart. 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.” 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! 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…

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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. Get in a little yoga while retelling the story with this bear hunt themed yoga practice by Cosmic Kids.—> Yoga Routine Suggest to the children that they carry out a scientific investigation to find out what makes the best mud. What do they think the best mud is like? Where do they think they can find it? 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? Buggy and Buddy share a handmade map idea perfect for working on spatial recognition and directionality.—-> Map Activity

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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. Press the grasses into thin plates of clay to make impressions or to add texture to the clay itself. 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 Home » All categories » We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Activities We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Activities Enjoy reading the book with students and also make sure to watch Mr. Rosen read the story aloud in this video. We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Activities We Are Looking for the Bear Emergent ReaderIntroduce to children part-way through the week and discuss how, like Little Rabbit Foo Foo, someone has been naughty! I love this pre-writing activity on big chart paper from Teach Investigate Play.—-> Pre-writing Idea This 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!” 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.