We took our learning outside for a day!

In our writing lessons we have been using Talk for Writing to retell a story. We used 'We're going on a Bear Hunt!' We learned actions to tell the story to a friend and then created story maps to show where the family went to find the bear. During our outdoor learning session we used natural materials to make our favourite part of the story.

"Our bear is inside the cave and there's grass on the floor outside."

"We made the forest that we go through and 'stumble, trip, stumble, trip!'"

Then we went on a sound hunt around the Willow Den to see if we could find anything starting with the sounds we have been learning this term.

We also practised our numbers to 10 in the playground. We chose a number bee, practised writing the number then gathered leaves, stones, cones or stick to show the number we had. We the ordered our number bees from the smallest number to the biggest number but they weren't numbers which were usually together in a number sequence so some of us found this a little tricky. But... we will keep practising!

Then we had some fun with the straight parachute and counted how long it took us to get the ball from one end to the other... without it falling off! We worked great as a team after a few turns.