Shared and Guided Reading Read resources on a camping theme, eg. Students to keep a Reading Log Discuss with students telling stories around a camp fire. Introduce talking stick , create and tell stories. Use a camping catalogue and magazines to find pictures of sleeping things, eating things, walking things. Discuss sleeping arrangements when camping, eg.
Students attempt to put together a camp stretcher.
Students write and illustrate their experiences in their diary. The teddy bears are bedded down for the night in the tents before home time one afternoon. Remnants of a midnight feast are left in the middle of the classroom floor for children to find in the morning. Teachers and students plan a lunchtime picnic . Use a digital camera to take photographs from this excursion to make a classroom book.