This week Foundation Stage read the story ‘You must bring a hat!’ We loved reading the story and exploring all the characters from the book!

The story inspired us with so many fantastic ideas but also some wonderful questions! Mainly regarding the ‘monocle wearing badger!’ What was a monocle? Why was he wearing one? Have we ever seen one? And what would you need it for? We decided to investigate this and examine our very own monocle! We inspected and examined pictures of people wearing monocles and discussed all those questions… What was it? What was it used for? We came to the conclusion that it was something “from the olden days” because the pictures were “black and white and we don’t see them anymore!”. We realised it was to help you see and compared them to glasses today and how they looked different, how had they changed? This was a brilliant topic for discussion and we had great fun exploring the monocle further in our “olden days hat shop!”