- Share our knowledge of the story and retell it
- Explore the characters feelings at different times in story
- Create textured bear fur paintings
- Make porridge in the mud kitchen
- Sort the bears by different sizes
- Porridge oats Sensory play
- Subsitizing to 3
- Match the sizes using beds, chairs, bowls, bears
- Large story maps
- Cottage themed role play
- Draw circles and turn them into bear faces
- Build bear caves in the sand pit
- Listening Walk outside to hear natural sounds eg birds
- Make beds using construction toys
- Story basket describing textures
