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BROWN BEAR, BROWN BEAR

Literacy

We graphed whether or not we liked bears.	We colored (as many as we wanted) and then sequenced the animals.
We used the flannel board to retell the story	This is a discovery bottle filled with rice and small icons from the story. The child shakes the bottle to find all the characters in the story.
File Folder Shadow game used for visual discrimination	Brown bear patterning.
Matching numbers to number of dots.
Following the art work at the beginning of the book we tore construction paper into strips then glued them in chronological order. Perfect for retelling the story at home to family and friends.	We sequenced the first two animals of the story: bear, bird, bear, bird etc.
Choral Reading: Read as a class and recorded. This is now their favorite tape to listen to. They love to listen and try to hear their voice.
Class Book: We use this popular book as our model to make our own version. Each child has their own page with Mrs. Drake's as the last. We titled it "Mouse, Mouse Who Do You See?" So far the children are still laughing quite hard at my picture. LOL	We graphed our favorite animal
"B" poster: We talked a lot about the letter B and the /b/ sound. We then looked through magazines and cut out pictures that start with the /b/ sound then glued them on a big bear "B" poster.
Have an idea you would like to share? SUBMIT IDEAS - Submit an idea and receive a coupon for 20% off your next purchase from Hummingbird Educational Resources Catalog More Brown Bear Brown Bear Activities BROWN BEAR COLOR BOOK Submitted by Peta I made a Brown Bear color book that I do with my kids at the start of the year during our color theme. Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? I see a..... red apple looking at me (sponge paint red apple) blue bird looking at me (blue collage) green leaf looking at me (leaf print) yellow star looking at me (finger-paint print on cut out star) orange balloon looking at me (staple orange balloon onto picture of bear holding string) purple grapes looking at me (bubble wrap print) pink lollipop (squeeze bottle paint swirl) black spider looking at me (scrunch black paper to glue on - draw legs) We do one page a day and they turn out great! The kids love reading them! The cover has a picture of a bear which they color brown and brush over with dye. Submitted by Karen We use this popular book as our model to make our own version for our new class each year. Take a picture of each child, along with a picture of each teacher. Place photos individually on pages (the teachers' pictures will be on the last pages) and bind with rings to form your book. Begin with the first page, and add the words of that child's name, followed with the next page's child's name. ex. "Christopher, Christopher, who do you see? I see Jonathan looking at me!" On the next page you would continue, "Jonathan, Jonathan, who do you see? I see Melissa looking at me." Your last page will be that of the teacher and will read, "Ms. Karen, Ms. Karen, who do you see? I see beautiful children looking at me!" I recommend that you laminate the pages because this book will get a lot of use! (Kids love looking at themselves! o) ) In our class, we take turns sending it home with each child. Not only do they begin to recognize their own name, they start to recognize their friends' names as well, and the parents get to know the classmates. Brown Bear Visual Memory Activity Submitted by Judy Haskin I found these ideas on the internet-sorry I cannot give credit to the originators. I have used these ideas and they work.I have flannelboard pictures for all the "Brown Bear" animals. After chances to tell and retell the story with the pictures, I put all the animals on the flannel board. I ask the kids to close/cover their eyes-no peeking! I remove one of the animals and the students try to remember and guess which is missing.Sometimes I remove more than one. They love to play! Math Game #2 Make a game board in the shape of a circle, and section it off, placing a picture or drawing of one of the "brown bear" animals in each section. In the center of the circle place a spinner. A spinner can be purchased or made with a paper clip and a pencil holding it in place. To take a turn the student spins and the others ask-"Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?"The student tells what he "saw" according to where the spinner stops. We then "tally" using marks or cubes. Students take turns spinning and tallying. We then use this information to make a Brown Bear graph. ART/COLOR IDEA Submitted by Betty I use Brown Bear, Brown Bear with my color theme. I take a color a day (I teach 4's and most of them already know their colors). We read the book over and over again. I also show the video (Scholastic) about Eric Carle which shows how he creates his art. We try to use his techniques! He uses a lot of tissue paper but we work on manilla (tried working on tissue one year and it was too frustrating). For red bird, the children place small pcs. of red tissue on a bird outline with starch. You could have them tear pcs., too, for more fine motor developing. We save the bird, but let them do more on a plain sheet so it can be open-ended. For each color animal, they repeat the process but we vary the techniques......we finger paint the blue horse (that's the same day I save a print of their hands!!!), we splatter paint, we feather paint ( the yellow duck!), we use carpet square prints, we use the handle end of the paint brush, etc. If you look carefully at Carle's work, you can get the children to brainstorm how he did it. When they are all finished and we have save the animal pictures......I make it a book and they take iT home to read and read and read! We end the whole unit with a painting day where a group paints creating the colors he uses for his suns (he almost always has a sun in his work!!!), some children mix red and blue to create his purple tones, another group creates his green tones, etc. We then share all these paintings and they cut and make a collage of the Hungry Caterpillar and anything else they would like! I hope i am clear on this........... To those of you who get Mailbox, this idea was submitted by me and appeared in their last issue! It might make better sense in there because they reworded it to make more sense, I'm sure!!!! Wish I could show you a finished copy of our book and our Hungry Caterpillars. My students can spot an E. Carle book a mile away!!!

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