Bears@taddy

  Animal Safari  As part of our new topic, Animal Safari, Bears have been reading Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell. We looked at the features of the animals that were sent from the zoo in the book and decided if any of the animals would be suitable as a pet. Bears decided that a pet elephant would be far too big and take up too much room. Also, we wouldn't want to clean up after it! A giraffe would be too tall and bang it's head on the lights. Most of Bears agreed it would be fun to have a cheeky monkey as pet.  We used our gross and fine motor skills to hold, draw around a stencil and cut out our chosen animal.  We explored and investigated which countries some of the animals came from. We went on our own safari and tried to spot some animals  with our binoculars. We spotted some sheep, lambs, birds and a horse!

  Outdoor Learning Bears enjoyed a walk to the woods as part of our investigations and exploration of the changes in the seasons. We looked for signs of Spring, new shoots and changes to the colour of the leaves in the trees, also for mini beasts and their habitats.

 Ready Steady Grow In our Topic Ready Steady Grow, we have been learning all about farming, how food is produced and different uses for the crops produced. Bears looked at some of the different crops planted from barley, corn, wheat, hay and oats and how some of the crops were used for food for people and some went into different types of animal feed. We looked at our cereal packets like Weetabix, porridge and Cornflakes and saw that the wheat, corn and barley were sent for making into cereal that we eat for breakfast. Bears fed the farm animals with chicken corn, sheep nuts and rolled barley. We then enjoyed singing together Big Red Combine Harvester! We looked at how honey was produced and made our honeycomb. Bears enjoyed making some farm machinery with junk modelling and lego. From our book Handa's Surprise, we learnt that in other countries they grow different fruit and vegetables and that there are things that we buy in our shops that are flown from all around the world. Lots

Drop Everything and Read. Bears have been enjoying the opportunity to get together to drop everything and read (DEAR). Bears enjoy looking and sharing some of the stories and books.  We also enjoy looking at non-fiction books and finding out some really interesting facts such as a sharks egg case is often called a Mermaid's purse!

  Friendships! Bears have been learning all about friendships! We made masks and dressed up in our Super Friend costumes. Bears  talked all about what it means to be a Super Friend and how we show that we are Super Friends by being kind, sharing our toys with each another and letting others join in our games. 

 World Book Day  We celebrated World Book Day!  Bears showed our love of reading and books. We brought in and shared our favourite books and dressed up as our favourite characters in our books.  

  Babbling Vagabonds Bears enjoyed  a visit from the Babbling Vagabonds Theatre Group,  day of storytelling and making shadow puppets! We made up a story about Taddy Tom, the Church Bell Rat. We made our shadow puppets of the characters and had a show with the parents.