Peace At Last

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Find out why we need sleep. How does it help our bodies? What happens if we don’t get as much sleep as we need? Use the speech to rewrite the story in the form of a play script.?Can you act out the story with some friends? Write a description of what it is like in your house at night. What does it look like? What does it sound like? What does it feel like?

Sophia Lovell Smith studied Theatre Arts at Bretton Hall. She is a designer for theatre, opera, dance and interactive performance for children. Sophia has just designed SALT (Lighthouse, Poole & Angel Exit), The Worst Princess (Full House Theatre) and Little Angel Theatre (The Bed). In 2022 Sophia created Chasing Dots (MishMash Prods & RNS, Sage/The Glasshouse, Gateshead), Catch A Sea Star (Seaglass Arts) Handa’s Surprise (Little Angel Theatre) and Jina and the STEM Sisters (HMDT) and London Rhymes, a band making music for toddlers. Between 2016 and 2018 she crafted new dramaturgies and libretti for three award winning and award nominated opera adaptations for The King's Head Theatre - La bohéme (Olivier Award nominated) Tosca (Off West End Award winner), and La Traviata (Off West End Award nominated). Mr. Bear has a long night ahead of him, but morning brings . . PEACE AT LAST story and pictures by Jill Murphy Booklist Reviewers' Choice, 1980 IRA-CBC Children's Choice, 1981 * \"A good bedtime read-aloud. . . . Rich, warm illustrations . . . create a properly somnambulant mood that both —soothes and amuses.\" Booklist, starred review \"Big, beautifully colored pictures leap with jovial surprises.\" — Publishers Weekly \"An engaging vignette of family life. . . . The pictures have warmth and humor, and the story is told in brisk, forthright —style with an appealing refrain. . . . Recommended.\" Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books \"Especially appealing.\" —The Christian Science Monitor Hardcoveredition available from Dial Books for Young Readers 2 Park Avenue New York, New York 10016 Pretend to be an aeroplane. Move around and make a sound like an aeroplane, just like baby bear. Do this with different vehicles, such as a car, a train and a boat. She has recorded and performed several operas in concert with Opera Rara including Semiramide, Il proscritto and La princesse de Trébizonde under the batons of Sir Mark Elder, Carlo Rizzi and Paul Daniel respectively.Mrs. Bear began to snore. \"SNORE,\" went Mrs. Bear. \"SNORE, SNORE, SNORE.\" \"Oh, NO!\" said Mr. Bear, \"I can't stand THIS.\" So he got up and went to sleep in Baby Bear's room. Peace at Last is a children’s picture book by Jill Murphy. You can watch the National Literacy Trust reading the story below! Four ways to explore the story:

Find out about animals that are nocturnal. What do they do at night time? What do they do during the day? Play ‘I hear with my little ear’. Listen to what sounds you can hear outside in the garden or inside. Say “I hear, with my little ear, something that sounds like…” and try to copy the noise with your voice.Can you write one of the stories in Mr. Bear’s newspaper? What news events might have taken place that day? f In 2019 she founded her own company - The Opera Makers, with a remit of supporting emerging artists while exploring radical opera adaptations with stunning production values on a fringe budget. In 2021 she adapted and wrote the libretto for the charity's first major production - Hopes & Fears - for the Grimeborn Opera Festival. In the past year she has directed a Punch & Judy puppet version of La Serva Padrona aimed at children aged 4-11 for The Opera Makers, as well as a bold reimagining of Puccini's Turandot; the first production of this piece outside of Asia to feature an entirely BESEA cast. Teach your little ones all about this popular children's book with our range of Peace At Last activities and resources. Use role-play props and masks to bring this book to life. Your kids can have fun during class and at play, pretending to be Mr or Mrs Bear and making up their own noises. Look at photographs of night time scenes (see Resources below).?Can you use these to draw / paint your own pictures of places at night?

Mr Bear eats a sandwich in the middle of the night. Write a set of instructions to teach someone how to make their own delicious sandwich.Design a machine that might help Mr Bear sleep. You could use this example from Wallace and Gromit to give you some ideas: Jill Murphy wrote and published 'Peace At Last' in 1980 - it was her first book. You might know Jill Murphy as the author of the super popular "The Worst Witch" series. Peace At Last' is all about a night where poor old Mr Bear just can't get to sleep! All through the night, we hear about the different noises and distractions that keep Mr Bear awake.