The Everywhere Bear

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Welcome to the home school learning experience. Every week I will be putting a weekly plan on here for you to complete so that you can continue your learning while school is closed. There is a literacy and a maths activity every day and a topic activity once a week. Hope you all enjoy the holidays, I thought I would set you a small fun challenge to do with your family. You could all have a go and see who can find the most items. Absolutely! It's a beautiful children's book with gorgeous illustrations and I'm sure all children will enjoy it!

The Everywhere Bear | Centre for Literacy in Primary Education The Everywhere Bear | Centre for Literacy in Primary Education

I studied Drama and French at Bristol University, where I met Malcolm, a guitar-playing medic to whom I’m now married. The illustrations are great! They give the readers a great view about the town and community. From the classroom to the sea, there are all sorts of brilliant scenes for us to view. We get see a lot of the action and, even though he's only a little bear, the Everywhere Bear sure goes on an amazing adventure! A gorgeously evocative musical tale of friendship, adventure and imagination, with a slightly smelly, yet well-loved bear. I really enjoy writing verse, even though it can be fiendishly difficult. I used to memorise poems as a child and it means a lot to me when parents tell me their child can recite one of my books. A thrilling tale of peril, overcoming anxiety and finding friendship, this show has the young audience fully engaged, contributing ideas on how to rescue the Bear, and delighted when Matt’s awful mistake is resolved. It’s a fun, imaginative story they can relate to and perhaps take home, bringing their own cuddly friends to life to send on adventures!I also continued to write “grown-up” songs and perform them in folk clubs and on the radio, and have recently released two CDs of these songs.

The Everywhere Bear by Julia Donaldson - Pan Macmillan

Funnily enough, I find it harder to write not in verse, though I feel I am now getting the hang of it! My novel THE GIANTS AND THE JONESES is going to be made into a film by the same team who made the Harry Potter movies, and I have written three books of stories about the anarchic PRINCESS MIRROR-BELLE who appears from the mirror and disrupts the life of an otherwise ordinary eight-year-old. I have just finished writing a novel for teenagers.

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We will also be preparing for our Saint David's Day Eisteddfod. We will be exploring Welsh castles, traditional food, danceandstories! Before you start reading look at the cover and imagine together why the story might be called the ‘Everywhere Bear’. Read the story aloud, pausing to think about what might happen next when the bear is washed down the drain and what the children’s favourite place might be. Join in this latest book’s bright and boisterous depiction of school, and the devotion of little ones to their teachers, may just leave you fuzzy with nostalgia.” Observer, Children’s Book of the Week A scavenger hunt around your house, can you find 1 or 2 items beginning with each letter that is in the words HAPPY EASTER? One of the things I appreciate most is that each child is different. There are a variety of characters to relate to, each with differing appearance and hobbies. I really like that the Everywhere Bear gets to play with each of his friends differently. The text features a lot of rhyming which makes the story quite fun and I feel like it's very encouraging to try new things.

The Everywhere Bear - LT Scotland The Everywhere Bear - LT Scotland

It’s hard to beat a Julia Donaldson picture book adaptation, especially when that book is illustrated by the amazing Rebecca Cobb. At the Polka Theatre this summer, Peter Glanville and Julian Butler have gloriously hit the mark with their delightful stage version of The Everywhere Bear.

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When you read the book again children might like to join in with parts of the story, for example some of the things you children do with the bear at the weekends or by completing some of the rhymes eg give it a cuddle, tumbled into a puddle. They might like to spot the names on the children’s trays in the classroom illustrations. Talk about the story Which illustration or part of the story do children like best? What do they like about it? Would your child have liked anything different to have happened in the story? What would your child like to do with the Everywhere Bear if they brought it home from school or nursery? Listen to a song of the story Things to make and do Play the story One of my grandchildren was very into vehicles and machinery at the time, so with that in mind I included a crane, a boat, a crane and a vehicle for painting stripes on the road in my teddybear’s adventures.