This week we began to explore our new talk for writing text, the Bear and the Piano by David Litchfield. We have all enjoyed getting to know this beautiful story throughout the week. We started by sharing the story together to become familiar with it. We then worked collaboratively to act out the story as a class, remembering the key events, characters and phrases as we performed.
Which events in the story are we acting out here? Which characters can you see? You could act out the story again at home for your family or find another way to retell it over the weekend!
Look at our masterpieces! We really enjoyed creating our own detailed bear and woodland drawings this week as an introduction to our new text. We confidently made marks, lines and shapes to create our drawings, thinking carefully about which crayons to use when adding colour to our artwork. Some of us were then inspired to create additional bear-themed drawings throughout the week.
Throughout the week, many of us chose to share The Bear and the Piano with our friends in the reading area. We enjoyed looking at the beautiful illustrations and talking about the events in the story together. We also enjoyed listening to the story as a class during group time, answering questions about the text and joining in with familiar phrases. We were invited to write about how Bear was feeling when accessing provision, a challenge which we relished!
On Friday, we created a bear-themed story to link to what we have been learning this week. The heavy rain had captured our interests and some of us talked about an impending thunderstorm, so we incorporated this into our storytelling too. We applied what we had learned earlier in the week to carefully create life-like bear drawings within our story squiggles! Our storytelling focus will support us in our learning next week, when we begin to innovate The Bear and the Piano story in our talk for writing sessions.
We have really enjoyed getting to know our new talk for writing text this week. Over the weekend, you could create a story map or booklet to write your own version of The Bear and the Piano. We would love to see your fantastic stories on Tapestry to share together at school!