This week our learning is focused on the fantastic story 'We're going on a bear hunt'. We have been learning how to perform this story and make it exciting for people to watch. We watched the author, Michael Rosen, performing the story and talked about what he did that made it a good performance, such as adding actions, using his face to make expressions and using his voice to show how he was feeling. We've been practising telling the story and tomorrow we are going to perform it for Mrs Comer - watch out for our video!
We've also been busy this week making binoculars to go on a bear hunt, making some swishy swashy grass from the story, making masks of the characters to help us retell the story, using playdough to create scenes from the story and exploring some snow, like in the 'swirling, whirling snowstorm' in the water tray.
This afternoon Reception also composed a musical accompaniment to the story, deciding which instruments worked best for each part of the story. After practising playing our instrument, we listened to the story being read aloud and joined in with our instruments at the right time to make the story even more exciting! We recorded our performance on our touch screen computer and then played it back, talking about what we liked and why and which bits were the most effective.
If you want to watch Michael Rosen's storytelling of the story, you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gyI6ykDwds&safe=active
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