This fun activity encourages recall, imagination, ordering, sequencing and physical activity.
Learning Outcomes
I enjoy exploring and playing with the patterns and sounds of language and can use what I learn. LIT 0-01a / LIT 0-11a / LIT 0-20a
I enjoy exploring events and characters in stories and other texts, sharing my thoughts in different ways. LIT 0-19a
ASN Milestones
Anticipates and responds to known events in familiar texts, songs, rhymes and/or stories
Joins in with actions, signs and/or movements relating to familiar texts, songs, rhymes and stories
Shows a response to familiar characters, songs, rhymes and/or stories
Generates meaningful vocalisations in response to familiar stimuli, objects, people and/or activities
Anticipates or reacts to parts of a rhyme, story and/or text
Sequences parts of a story
Lesson Activity:
- Start by reading the story We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen, or watch him read it on YouTube:
- Talk about the different places that the family visited on their journey and the different sounds that they heard. Use other senses as a stimulus to explore other things that the family might have experienced e.g. feeling scared, cold, wet etc. What might they have seen or heard?
- Outdoors, role-play a bear hunt or similar adventure with your class. You could travel around the space recreating the bear hunt story, or create an adventure of your own e.g. a hunt for a supervillain, searching for a lost toy, or explorers in the jungle. On your adventure, use the senses to stimulate discussion.
Differentiation
Hide toys or pictures around the school grounds for pupils to find
Create a map of your school grounds for pupils to follow on their bear hunt
Extension
Literacy – Draw pictures or write about what happened to recall your adventure, sequence pictures or sentences about the bear hunt, create your own ‘Bear Hunt’ storybook
Numeracy and Maths – draw maps showing the journey traveled around the school grounds and the areas visited
You can find supporting materials here: Template Bear Hunt
