27 June 2025

Starfish

Our beach school book was ‘Sailor Bear’ by Martin Waddell and Virginia Austin.  In the story Small bear is lost and does not know what to do. He thinks and thinks and he looks at his sailor suit and he decides to be a sailor and sail on the sea. He makes a boat from some pieces of wood and he finds a sea small enough for a small bear and he sails off by the light of the moon. But the sea grows too rough and Bear's boat rocks and rolls and shatters and sinks. Small Bear is shipwrecked on the shore and lies shivering and cold, until next morning when a small girl finds him. She hugs him and takes him home and sets him by the fire to dry. Now Small Bear knows what to do. He'll stay where he is with his new friend and never go to sea again. 

Before we got to the end of the story Mrs Popay stopped reading and we discussed what we thought might happen to him at the end.  We wrote and drew our ideas.  Some of us shared our ideas and thought that a wolf or a fox might have got him!   We then listened to the end of the story to see what really happened.

In part of the story Sailor Bear sails on a river that goes out to the sea.  We walked to the part of our beach where the water flows into the sea but we couldn’t believe our eyes when we saw that a previous tide had washed up so much sand that the water couldn’t get to the sea and had made a pond on the beach!

For maths today the Reception children continued with identifying odd and even numbers using stones and shells and the Nursery children were learning about bigger and smaller.