Students in Stage 1 and Early Stage 1 have been researching bear facts, as a result of reading variations on the fairy tale, “Goldilocks and the three bears”.
Fun facts about bears
Grizzly bears catching salmon – Nature’s great events – BBC
Each year, UK department store, John Lewis, hires a team to create a special ad for the Christmas season. These ads are excellent examples of persuasive visual texts.
John Lewis Christmas advert 2014 – #MontyThePenguin
Flock Associates – John Lewis: The Making of Monty the Penguin 2014
John Lewis Christmas advert 2013 – The bear & the hare
Lily Allen | [The Making of] Somewhere Only We Know (John Lewis Christmas Advert)
John Lewis Christmas advert 2012 – The journey
John Lewis Christmas advert 2011 – The long wait
Same ad, with a different music track:
The New John Lewis 2011 Christmas TV Advert – The long wait [Alternate]
John Lewis Christmas advert 2010 – This feeling inside
John Lewis Christmas advert 2009 – Sweet child of mine
John Lewis Christmas advert 2008 – From me to you [Extended studio version]
The three bears at Penrith PS!
(These bear toys are from the picture book, You’re all my favourites by Sam McBratney & Anita Jerum.)
To enhance our Term 2 study of fairy tales, Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 students will be using the picture book, Goldilocks and the three bears (Picture lions series, Collins, 1990) by James Marshall, and these Youtube clips this week:
Goldilocks and the three bears – Kids Stories – LearnEnglish Kids British Council
From the BBC programme “Nigel’s simple cooking”, host Nigel Slater meets the 2008 World Porridge Making Champion, Ian Bishop, to find out the secret of perfect porridge:
Porridge
Digital stories:
The three bats, a digital fairy tale by Class 1/2H (in the year 2010), loosely based on “Goldilocks and the three bears”
Mr E and the three bears, a digital fairy tale by the other half of Class 1/2H (2010), also based on “Goldilocks”.
In the lion book trailer
The new picture book by James Foley!
Unforgotten book trailer
The new picture book by Tohby Riddle!
I also bought “Too many elephants in this house” by Ursula Dubosarsky and Andrew Joyner. While there is no trailer, as yet, I still love Andrew’s Youtube clip promoting their previous picture book, “The terrible plop!”:
Today, our whole school participated in the annual ALIA National Simultaneous Storytime with a reading of Nick Bland’s “The very cranky bear”.
The hearing support unit used a Youtube presentation in Auslan. It was so well done that, after I’d read the book to the Stage 1 group who’d used the school library as their venue today, we decided to play the Auslan performance as well.
National Simultaneous Storytime is an eagerly-anticipated annual event!
I saw these at Christmas, but the picture book has been announced as this year’s ALIA National Simultaneous Storytime title. Just had to have me a Cranky Bear. Found him today in Dymocks, in the CBD.
See you on 23rd May, Cranky Bear!
The resident library puppets greet the Cranky Bear.