Preparing for a bear hunt!

This morning we've been talking about things to pack when we go to different places, like what we bring to school, what we'd take on holiday to the beach etc.

We talked about all the different places the family visit in the story We're Going on a Bear Hunt and the different types of weather they face. We came up with lots of ideas of things we might need and found them in the classroom. We chose:

• long trousers for the long, wavy grass because "there might be stinging nettles" (Finaly) or "there might be thorns" (Emily) or the grass might have things in "that bite us" (Fallon)
• welly boots for the deep, cold river and the thick, oozy mud
• torches for the big, dark forest and the narrow, gloomy cave so we can see where we're going
• hat, scarf, gloves and a coat for the swirling, whirling snowstorm - something to keep us warm and dry!
• binoculars so we can look out for bears!
• magnifying glasses so we can look closely at other things we see along the way
• cameras to take pictures of what we see!

We gathered all the things and shared them out. Then we acted out the story on the playground, wrapping up warm during the whirling, swirling snowstorm, shining our torches on the ground in the big, dark forest and the narrow, gloomy cave and splashing and squelching with our wellies in the deep, cold river and the thick, oozy mud!

After that we used the welly boots to make patterns on paper by putting the wellies in paint and walking across the paper - the boots all had different patterns on the bottom so it looked different on the paper!