Our Bear Hunt

 We told a walking story today of Michael Rosen's 'We're going on a bear hunt' .  We got the children to experience and imagine different elements of the story, this enables children to build up a sensory experience of the story and when reflecting with the pictures tell the story.  So here is a reminder of what the pictures mean.....

We're going on a bear hunt

 Uh uh Grass!  Long wavy grass.  We can't go over it.  We can't go under it. Oh no! We've got to go through it!

Swishy Swashy!

Here Neil has set up a representation of a river. Splash splosh!

Thick Oozy wood chips to represent the mud!the children could be heard squelch, squerching through!

some though just stopped for a play!

Building up anticipation in stories is important, here Neil is telling everyone they are about to enter the forest the big dark forest.Stumble, trip!

Once the story was over we took our cups of shaving foam and paintbrushes in order to make a trail on our walk so that we could find our way back after we had found our bears!!!!

These children were the first to paint the trees and the leaves.

Some great mark making on the log, some children were making crosses and some were making the initial letter of their name.

Finally we found the bears having a pic nic!  Everyone retrieved their favourite friend and then it was time for sultanas, biscuits and juice!

What a great Mini Rangers session, thanks everyone for making it brilliant.