Baby Bear
Comes Home Publisher: Heinemann Young Books
On Jessica's first day at school, she leaves Baby Bear in
the classroom. That night, when she's fast asleep in bed,
Mother and Father Bear set off to find him and bring him home
again.
Baby
Bear Comes Home.
Retell the story from the point of view of one of
the characters. Looking at a story from a specific point of
view helps children to think deeper about the characters.
As well as sequencing the events, children can add their own
ideas that might develop the traits of the characters. (Mummy
bear's assertiveness, daddy bear's fear). They may even add
events that must have happened but weren't explicitly mentioned
in the book. (How the cat got to the playground, what baby
bear did in class after Jessica left him there). They might
even want to create tangential stories (Where owl was going
to when he saw the bears come out of the cat-flap, what the
two frogs where doing before they saw the bears). This activity
can be a written one, using the images below, or it could
be a spoken one with obvious possibilities for drama.
To help with the above activity, cut and paste any of these
images into a word processor, print them out and use them
in class.
Frog
Lion
Owl
Cat
Daddy Bear
Mummy Bear
Another activity you might like to get the children to do
is to draw a flow chart map of the story. The children could
trace the journey mother and father bear take from under Jessica's
bed at the beginning of the book to in her bed at the end.
This is a fun way of getting children to recall the events
in their correct sequence and it is also an introduction to
storyboarding. Children could expand the story by introducing
their own ideas into the 'story-map'. You might want to use
this activity to show children a way of organising the events
in their own stories.
