We're going on a bear hunt, we're not scared!

Hello parents! We have started our new book - 'We're going on a bear hunt' - and the kids are really enjoying it!

 After reading and watching the story, the children played with a sensory box to act out the story with puppets.

 They were given playdough to make the characters from the story.

 They were given paint to draw the colours they saw in the story.

 As you can see, the children are having so much fun engaging in all the activities. They let their imaginations take over and were making noises from the story while playing.

 Linin and Harry saying "Squelch" and treating the playdough as mud.

 Gap and Freya painting the long wavy grass from the story.

 Namnoon painting the forest from the story.

 "Splish splosh, splish splosh" says Mungorn while dragging the mum accross the water.

 Lucas took the characters through the forest.

 Irene let dad go up the snowy mountain. "Hoo, woo" says Irene!

 Lexie wanted mum to go through the water again.

 Nari and Ploen enjoyed making a house for the characters from the story.

 Mayumi and Lucy worked together to make one big house!

 Here we are going on our own "bear hunt".

 "Swish, swash" through the wavy grass.

 "Squelch, squirch" through the thick, oozy mud!

 We even found a baby frog whilst on our journey.

 Can we go over? "No!" Can we go under? "Yes!" Ok, show me :) One group learning through active engagement. The rest of the groups will do the same in the course of the week.

 Gap, Mungkorn and Namnoon made cool houses for the characters from the story!

 Today, we had a lot of fun making "bear paw prints" for our wall. I had a lot of fun tickling the childrens' feet while they enjoyed the sticky texture of paint.

 Totem wanted to iron the blankets for his baby. He really liked putting his feet in paint, too!

 The rest of the day was spent exploring the new areas that have been set up in the classroom.

 Mayumi made some spaghetti for me, for lunch!

 SunLee made a nice healthy meal for Kru.Noon!

 Ploen and Nari made food for "Princess Freya"!

We are doing a lot of activities this week to make our classroom into the story. Watch out for more photos during the week! Here is the bear cave so far...