Toby Bears Camping Trip
Fairy Folk Montessori Kilkenny
Once upon a time in Fairy Folk Montessori Ellie and Caramia came into school full of excitement to tell their friends all a
bout the lovely hedgehog they found in their back garden.
The children spoke about how hedgehogs go for a big long sleep in the winter. This sleep is called hibernation. Seån then wondered about Fairy Folk’s Teddy called 'Toby'. "Toby goes to bed for a really long time too" he said.
Where could Toby sleep for the winter, we all wondered. “He could sleep in a tent” said the children. Together we assembled a small tent for Toby and a big tent for us. We were all dressed in our pyjamas because it was pyjama day in Montessori. We made a pretend fire and
we all gathered together for our camping trip with Toby Bear. We read our favourite story ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury and then we sang lots of lovely songs. When we looked around we couldn’t see Toby Bear anywhere. “Where has Toby gone?” asks Caitlin. Then we spotted a note on the blackboard.
We started on our bear hunt…
Oh no, it’s long wavy grass, We can’t go over it,
We can’t go under it, We’ve got to go through it!
Swish, Swish, Swish, Swash
Oh no, it’s mud, Dark squelchy mud! We can’t go over it, We can’t go under it, We’ve got to go through it!
Oh no, it’s the deep dark forest,
We can’t go over it, We can’t go under it, We’ve got to go through it!
Stumble, trip, stumble, trip
We swished through long wavy grass, Splashed through the deep, dark river, Squelched through mud,
Fought our way through a snowstorm and Stumbled and tripped through the forest, Until we came to a‌
CAVE
We couldn’t find Toby in the Cave,
But all of a sudden we saw‌ 1 shiny wet nose, 2 big furry ears and 2 big googly eyes!
Toby was playing in the tree and we had to climb up high to help him get down safely.
We played some parachute
games with Toby in the garden. “Let’s make him jump really high” said Andrea. Then Toby was so tired it was time to give him his dinner and help get him ready for bed.
We had some delicious lunch and gave Toby a big dinner before his really long sleep. After lunch we toasted some
yummy s’mores over our little campfire. “Melty chocolate marshmallows!
Cool!!!” said Noah. “Fire is making it all melty” said Fiadh. “Mmmmm these are yummy” said Caitlin.
We helped Toby to brush his teeth, We put him on the potty, Gave him a bath, Dried him and put on his pyjamas.
TOBY IS READY TO GO INTO HIBERNATION
The children were all so tired after their big day minding Toby so they took a little rest in their tent too.
Goodnight Toby See you next Spring
That’s how we play in Fairy Folk…
We would love to
hear your stories…?