Bear Freebies from my Week. Lots of ideas and freebies for a bear unit in a first grade class.
Bedtime stories will become way more fun with the help of this teddy bear cootie catcher (or fortune teller, however you may call these) - such a fun origami for kids and a paper toy
Looking for an awesome resource to practice Spanish colors? This Color Vocabulary Pack has 60 pages that will engage your students in English or Spanish!
Enjoy this free Polar Bear Unit Study with your family. Learn all about polar bears with books, videos, art, science, and writing activities!
Rev up reading skills - no matter what level your child's at - with our favorite reading worksheets for preschoolers through fifth graders.
Based on the much-loved tale of Goldilocks and The Three Bears, we have come up with 10 perfect activity ideas for your little preschooler at home or children in your classroom. Your children will …
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Looking for an awesome resource to practice Spanish colors? This Color Vocabulary Pack has 60 pages that will engage your students in English or Spanish!
This bear counting activity based on the book Bear Counts helps develop number and counting skills. Includes a free printable.
Since it’s B week here, I thought I’d re-post one of our favorite B days … Bears! This could easily take two days, but I usually pick and choose different activities each year. I updated some pictures and activities from this year and made the Goldilocks page a PDF for easier printing. Enjoy your B week! Lindsy Print and color a great Brown Bear, Brown Bear Book from Mrs. Ricca’s Kindergarten, here. Have a picnic with teddy bears Find all the teddy bears in your house. Spread out a blanket (inside or out) Have a snack and read stories! Read "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" … several great versions are available here(my favorite), hereand here (lift-the-flap). Give the kids a paper with three bowls (papa size, mama size & baby bear size), three chairs, & three beds. Feel free to use the one I put together below! Give them three teddy grahams. As the kids help re-tell the story, move the bear from picture to picture showing how they found the bowls of porridge, the chairs and finally the beds. Then eat the bears and color the page! Watch Goldilocks & the Three Bears These Scholastic Storybook Treasures DVDs are great! This DVD has “beary” adorable tales including Goldilocks and the Three Bears (James Marshall's version, click link to see the book). I found the book and this DVD at our library. You can also get it here! Read Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle. Available here. Print & cut out this clipart (click the link, then scroll to the bottom) of each animal in story. Have the kids pick out the animal that goes along with the story. Tell it again & let the kids mix up the story. My 3-year-old loved this! Pudding Finger Painting Give kids an outline of a bear (click the picture or link) & a small cup of chocolate pudding. Let them finger paint the bear brown & let dry. Add googly eyes! Hibernation Game Briefly explain that bears hibernate or sleep during the winter. In an open area, play upbeat music and have the kids dance to the beat. After a short time, stop the music and call out "Hibernate!" Have the kids lie down and pretend to fall asleep. Restart the music and call out "Spring is here!" Play again and again! snack idea: teddy grahams or gummy bears
Polar Bear Winter Themed Multiplication Worksheet
This week my students have shifted their writing from narrative to informational/Explanatory writing. They have been LOVING this change. We have been learning about polar bears and they were so excited to show off their knowledge in their writing. To get them started I made an informative writing anchor chart and used the image of a hand to help them with the structure of an informational writing piece. We hold up our hands and review the structure during our writers workshop time before we begin writing. After my students understood the informational structure, we used our knowledge gained from our polar bear unit to create a Have, Can, Are anchor chart. This chart assisted the class in creating their polar bear informational writing piece. After the students finished their writing pieces, we shared them in partnerships and gave compliments and suggestions. Right now we are working on giving helpful feedback and avoiding the "I like your writing" comments. Some students grasped this idea very well and gave wonderful suggestions to others about word choice, punctuation, and addition of sentences. After editing, we will publish the writing and present it on our bulletin board accompanied by our polar bear art! Here is the art project we are working on right now. We have really enjoyed our polar bear unit and our informational writing has started out very well! More to come! If you are interested in the polar bear unit, check it out here. The art project is a part of the unit, but if you are interested in just the art project, you can get it separately here. Happy teaching!
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Winter is a great time to do some STEM for kids! Use a few simple materials and challenge children to create using their imagination and ...
