Showing posts with label Bears. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bears. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Polar Bears Preschool Theme

 Today we talked about polar bears.  Since we talked about the letter p last time and I plan on talking about the letter b next time with bears I thought polar bears was a nice way to link them together.
We learned about polar bears by reading "National Geographic Kids Polar Bears". We also visited National Geographic Kids website to see some facts and watch some videos on polar bears.
We did this little activity.  There are more you can find at www.kidssoup.com.  You can also find this cute movement activity to do with your preschool here.
This Polar Lands printable preschool pack has some cute polar bear activities included in it.
I came across this free printable of a long list of sight words with cute polar bears pictured with the words.  I know my son doesn't know too many words, but I printed them off anyway and we had fun seeing what he knew.  He actually read 26 of them much to my surprise and he had fun doing it.
This is a cute idea using facts about polar bears and what a polar bear's foot print might look like.  I asked my son to remember some things that he learned about polar bears and we wrote them down.  The first thing he remembered is that they are good swimmers.  The second thing he remembered is that they like to play.
Since we don't own the cute book "Polar Bear, Polar Bear.  What do you see?"  I found a video of it for us to watch.

We also visited www.wegivebooks.org and read "The Three Snow Bears" by Jan Brett.

Then we made a little polar bear using my son's hand print, white paint, and blue construction paper.

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Bear Stays Up for Christmas

 I had some things to take care of this morning so we had a small preschool day.  We enjoy reading this book though so it was a perfect day for it.  Check out the story props pictured here. I let my son put up the pictures of each thing as he saw them in the book while I was reading.  After we finished the book I laid out the names of each thing and he matched those with the pictures.  He can recognize what things sound like and was able to figure out almost all of them completely on his own.  For example he knows that bear starts with the letter B so he looked for words that started with B.  There were two so then I guided him from there.  The only one that really tricked him was the word wren.
 Karma Wilson has a website with lots of things on it for teachers, parents, and children with all of her books.  I found this bear mask on her site.
Here is a link to several activities that go with the book if you want to spend more time on it.

If you are looking for some activities geared towards a little bit older child you can see what I did last year with my (at the time) five year old.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Bear Stays Up for Christmas

 Today we read "Bear Stays Up for Christmas" by Karma Wilson.  It is a really fun book.  We talked a little bit about how bears hibernate during the winter.  I found some cute visuals to use with the book at 1+1=1 that we used.
After we read the story I laid out all of the word cards and my son matched them to the correct picture.  He is just beginning to read however, he figured it out based on what things began with.  The tricky one was wren and so I told him to look for a word that ended with the right sound.

Then my son drew a picture of a bear.  It doesn't really show up in the picture though.  My son wants to do preschool everyday which is a lot of work for me, so doing little things like this keeps us both happy.

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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Bears

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Gathering Time:
Name some different types of bears (show pictures)
“Going on a Bear Hunt” (there is a book and we have a Greg and Steve Kids in Action CD that has a version on it as well)
Explain a little about what hibernation is
Read “Bear Snores On”
Sing “Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear Turn Around”
Focus Activities:
Put all of our stuffed bears on our parachute and see if we can keep them on (do other variations of this game)
Other Possibilities:
RESOURCES: