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Brown Bear, Brown Bear
| Author: Bill Martin Illustrator: Eric Carle ISBN: 0805017445 |
1. Before you read the book with your student, flip through it and ask her to identify each animal and the sound each animal makes.
2. Make stick puppets with animal patterns (see website section) and let your student retell the story.
3. Make animal patterns (see website section) and attach felt to the back of each animals. Let your student find and add the correct animal to the felt board as you read the story.
4. Make another story using your student’s name: “Braylen, Braylen what do you see?” Ask her what she sees. Write it down in a “book” and draw picture of it. Instead of drawing, you could also find pictures in a magazine to illustrate your story. Let your student help you glue them to the page.
5.
Color Words:
Introduce the colors mentioned in the book. Play a matching game. Make two
sets of cards. The first set should be the animals in the book colored
accordingly. Another set of cards should simply be colors. Ask your student to
match the animal (bird) to the correct color card (red).
Use these Prepared Cards instead
of making your own
6.
Make a new
book allowing your student to fill in the blanks as you go. Here are some title
suggestions:
*Jack-O-Lantern, Jack-O-Lantern, What Do You See? (end with I see a
trick-or-treater)
*Snowman, Snowman What Do You See?
*Red Flower, Red Flower What Do You See? (this would be good if you want to
continue teaching colors—you could stay with a
nature/color theme)
For illustrations, you could let your child paint all over pieces of paper.
After they dry, you can cut out shapes resembling the objects (red flower, three
circles for a snowman, etc.).
7. If you made the animal patterns, here is another game to play. Display all the animals. Let your student look, then ask her to cover her eyes. Take one away and let her guess which one is missing.
1. Compare Real Bears to Brown Bear in Book.
2. Give children pictures of real bears and teddy bears. Have them sort into two piles-- real bears and pretend bears.
3. Make Habitation boxes out of shoeboxes for the bears.
4. Read Non Fiction book about bears. Suggestion: Bears: Polar Bears, Black Bears, Grizzly Bears by Deborah Hodge.
5. With your older student, talk about what kinds of food bears eat, where they live, hibernation, etc… Compare polar bears to black bears. Could read Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear?
1. Count how many animals are mentioned in the book.
2. Have your child gather all her teddy bears. Talk about what makes each one different. Sort them into piles according to characteristics like: size (small, medium, large), color (brown, white, black), or clothing (dressed, naked.)
3. Make a large graph from a vinyl tablecloth. Mark rows and columns with colored electric tape. This can be spread on the floor and you can graph your sorted piles. The graph can then be folded and put away until another graphing day.
4.
Gummy Bear fun:
Give your child a handful of gummy bears. Have her name the colors.
Have her count them. Have her count how many she has of each color.
1.
Teddy Bear Action Song:
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn
around
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear touch
the ground
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear show
your shoe
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear that
will do.
2. Cave Finger Play
Here is a cave (bend fingers
on one hand)
Inside is a bear (put thumb
inside fingers)
Now he comes out
To get some fresh air. (pop
out thumb)
He stays out all summer
In sunshine and heat.
He hunts in the forest
For berries to eat. (move
thumb in a circle)
When snow starts to fall
He hurries inside
His warm little cave
And there he will hide (put
thumb inside fingers)
Snow covers the cave
Like a fluffy white rug
Inside the bear sleeps
All cozy and snug (place one
hand over the other)
3.
Three Brown Bears (tune Three blind mice)
Three brown bears
Three brown bears
See all their beds
See all their chairs
The mommy cooked in
A big brown pot
The daddy’s porridge
Was much too hot,
The baby bear
Always cried a lot
Three brown bears.
Phonics (Letter B Activities):
1. Draw a large brown bear and have kids find other things that start with the letter B to place in the bear.
Snacks:
1. Peanut Butter Bear Sandwiches
Use a heart cookie cutter to cut out a heart shape from wheat bread. Cut off the pointed end to round off the heart shape and it will resemble a bear face. Let child spread peanut butter on his of her bear face and use raisins or chocolate chips to make eyes and a mouth. Use a cherry for a nose.
2. Bear Cookies:
Make round sugar cookies. Let kids decorate cookies with white frosting for polar bears, chocolate for brown bears, black colored frosting for black bears and black and white for panda bears. Use mini Oreo cookies for ears.
Websites
http://www.dltk-
Story to go-along with Polar Bears
Brown Bear Activity Card
Lots of Brown Bear ideas!
Brown Bear Story
Patterns from Kiz Club (black and white)
Brown Bear Story Patterns from Kiz Club (color)
Color Word Balloons
Printable from bry-back manor