We're Going on a Bear Hunt Activities Bundles
Less planning, more learning! Save time preparing super fun ESL lessons with We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen.
♦ Hours of fun, dynamic activities that you can use NOT ONLY with the Bear Hunt story, but also in any lessons on nature, family, or prepositions.
♦ Flexible materials and activities for 6-10 lessons.
♦ Perfect for mixed age groups or to use across a range of levels.
♦ Pick and choose the activities you want. All the activities are great value at around €1 - €2, with bigger and bigger discounts the more you buy.
♦ Get ALL the activities for just €12.45!
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Flashcards and game cards
Perfect for a whole host of whole class, small group and pair practice of your target language.
♦ Help your young learners learn key nature, family/people and story language from the Bear Hunt story in a fun, dynamic way.
♦ Try out the included game ideas for interactive practice and easy learning.
♦ A choice of three card types provide plenty of learning opportunities so your esl kids never get bored.
♦ Perfect for helping you plan engaging and effective lessons so you have structure to your Bear Hunt story lessons.
Interactive storytelling and retelling
While you can incorporate retelling with any of the resources on this page, these resources are more specifically designed for retelling and manipulating the story.
Your ESL young learners will acquire more language from the story with multiple retellings. The resources below are super helpful for allowing you to do this in dynamic and fun ways. Empower your young learners to tell the story for themselves (or even add their own unique twist on it!)
♦ Engaging for all ages! Stretch your older learners with tracing the text or even creating their own hidden pictures.
♦ Includes ALL key language from the story: family/people; nature; prepositions; useful phrases.
♦Includes loads of ideas for language practice both during and after the craft.
♦ A fun and interactive way to incorporate story retelling, and bring English outside the classroom.
♦ See the excitement from making a whole book from one sheet of paper.
♦ Ideal for practising sequencing skills and at the same time consolidating language from the story.
♦ Easy to cater to different abilities and skills focus by choosing from an amazing 10 different templates.
♦ A fun and interactive way to incorporate story retelling, and bring English outside the classroom.
♦ Super easy to differentiate for different ages and abilities – choose from 6 different templates.
♦ Consolidate useful language from the story in a memorable way.
♦ Stretch your older learners with read and match and gapfill options.
♦ Create stronger connections with the story with fun sequencing games.
♦ Follow the tips and suggestions for fun ways to incorporate full sentences and structures in an interactive and dynamic way.
♦ A dynamic and effective way to practise story language and use in story retelling.
♦ Choose from a range of templates to focus on speaking, listening, sequencing and even reading and writing skills.
♦ Option to use as a print, colour and retell craft OR to build a whole lesson around contructing the craft then playing with it.
♦ Follow the tips and suggestions for fun ways to incorporate full sentences and structures in an interactive and dynamic way.
♦ Ideal for encouraging English use in a natural playful way.
♦ Super-simple to make, even your littlest learners will be able to make these without lots of help from you.
♦ Stretch your literate learners with the cut and paste matching text templates.
♦ Planning made easy with lots of included ideas for how to make and play for maximum interaction and language practice.
Worksheets with a twist
Printables that are perfect for introducing and practising key family/people and nature vocabulary. Follow the activity suggestions for dynamic ways to work on receptive and productive skills. They also include ways to practise prepositions and useful story phrases.
♦ Practise useful body vocabulary in a memorable way: body/tummy, legs, arms, head, eyes, ears, nose, hands (paws), feet
♦ Perfect to complement any bear theme or story sessions featuring bears.
♦ Easy to prep for little hands with helpful cutting guidelines.
♦ Get playful and use them in roleplays, free play and acting out your favourite bear songs and stories.
♦ Choose from 4 different sheets to easily differentiate according to ability, age group, and vocabulary focus.
♦ Helps you practise useful nature and family vocabulary.
♦ Useful activity suggestions give you plenty of ideas to increase interaction, engagement and learning AND give you ideas for incorporating story retelling.
♦ Ideal for developing important maths skills while consolidating family vocabulary in an engaging way.
♦ Super-simple so even your littlest learners will be able to complete the activity without lots of help from you.
♦ Useful family vocabulary with lots of practice opportunities: baby, mum, dad, sister, brother and size language: small, medium, big
♦ Planning made easy with lots of included ideas for how to conduct the activity for maximum interaction and language practice.
♦ Ideal for following up on a We’re Going on a Bear Hunt unit/session in a personal way.
♦ Get creative with activating useful nature, family and story language.
♦ Choose from a variety of templates to suit every age and ability.
♦ Includes ideas for different projects. See below!
Games to make and play
All of these can be made to play before your class, but they are also fantastic for integrating even more language practice because the kids can make their own copies. Super useful for bringing English outside the classroom – your young learners will be so excited to play these at home with their families.
♦ Choose from a range of templates to easily differentiate according to ability, age and vocabulary focus.
♦ A super effective way to provide repetition of useful nature and family/people vocabulary from the story. See the full list below.
♦ Follow the tips and suggestions for fun ways to incorporate full sentences and story language in an interactive and dynamic way.
♦ Get crafty and choose from 3 different dice to practise nature, family/people vocabulary and useful phrases from the story.
♦ Your ESL young learners will love playing games with the dice. Lots of game ideas included to make planning super easy.
♦ Engaging graphing sheets are great to get your kids interacting and practising their maths and English skills.
♦ Not just for one lesson. These are games you can come back to again and again!
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Not sure how many resources you need?
Of course it depends on your particular context, but I’d like to give you an idea of how I’ve used them across multiple levels, lessons and age groups. Below are a couple of sample 6 lesson maps with the resources.
3 to 5 years (also suitable for older children new to English)
Lesson 1: Colouring sheets; Flashcards and game cards (nature); Storytelling with book
Lesson 2: Jigsaw games and craft; Flashcards and game cards (nature); Storytelling with video and actions
Lesson 3: Sort by size sheets; Flashcards and game cards (family members); Dice and Graphing sheets (dice made for them).
Lesson 4: Storytelling with actions, Jigsaw races; Mini-books (sequencing then find and stick)
Lesson 5: Inventing actions for a fingerplay version of the song/story; Storyboards and story retelling; Small group card games
Lesson 6: Small world play craft (make and play together OR as a learning station activity) OR Magic book; Dramatising the story with pictures around room and/or realia.
6 to 9 years (also suitable for younger children with 2+ years of English)
Lesson 1: Jigsaws + craft (use as game, then craft); Flashcards and game cards; Storytelling with book
Lesson 2: Storyboards; Flashcards and game cards; Storytelling with book or video
Lesson 3: Graphing dice and sheets (higher level templates); prepositions fingerplay songs; Storytelling
Lesson 4: Bear marionettes; Storytelling with actions and bears
Lesson 5: Magic Books; Drama roleplay
Lesson 6: Learning stations with game cards, small world play craft, story ,jigsaws and other crafts, write and draw project.
What’s more, each resource includes different templates so you can differentiate for different levels or repeat the story across year groups but using different templates.
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Frequently asked questions
Yes, of course! Maybe you have the time and enjoy creating things, but it has to be said that being a young learner teacher can involve a HUGE amount of extra work making materials. Give yourself a break!
All my materials have been tried and tested in the classroom. As well as having almost 20 years of teaching experience, I am also a qualified trainer for the Trinity TYLEC (Teaching Young Learners Extension Certificate), so you can rely on the quality.
Yes! There are a range of templates to choose from within each resource so it’s super-easy to differentiate. The included Activity Suggestions will also give you ideas about how you can conduct the activity so each child can work (play!) to their full potential.
Definitely! (You knew I would say that!) No, but seriously speaking, I started making these resources for just one class but I’ve now used them several times over. I’ve even used them with the same groups in subsequent years, because the different templates allow me to vary the activity and language focus.
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The material of this book is absolutely great! It’s fantastic and very helpful for the teacher and the students. I’m very happy with this purchase.
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Thank you so much for your kind words Noelia! So glad you think it’s useful : )
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