Can't You Sleep Little Bear?

We are very busy in Nursery and Reception learning all about bears, and today we've been reading the story Can't You Sleep Little Bear? In the story, Little Bear can't sleep because he is afraid of the dark. Big Bear keeps bringing him lanterns, but there is still too much dark for Little Bear to sleep. So Big Bear takes Little Bear out of the bear cave and shows him the night sky - it has been lit up by the moon and all the twinkling stars. And Little Bear finally goes to sleep!

We talked about things that we are afraid of and what makes us feel better, like having a light on or having cuddles with our mummies and daddies. Then we made some night sky pictures using black paper. We printed stars and cut some paper to make a moon. We also used glitter to make some twinkling stars!

This afternoon Reception were using torches to explore shadows by making shadow puppets and exploring different materials to see whether they were transparent or not. If we could see through them, they were transparent. If not, they were opaque. We sorted them into different groups, then looked at whether or not we could see a light shining through them. Things you can't see through but you can see a light through are called translucent. These are tricky words but we did well with sorting the different materials and could talk about why things belonged in a certain group.

We are enjoying reading lots of stories about bears and tomorrow we are bringing our own teddy bears in from home to share with the rest of the class!