The girls had fun learning about bears today. They enjoyed our bear walk, snack, and matching game. We got our recourses for today from the B is for Bee, Bus, Bear Teachers Pay Teachers pack.
Bear Science
- We read from the Abeka Preschool Language Development Cards to learn more bears.
- We also watched the Wild Kratts Bears Around the World episode.
- I printed out the Bear Cards on cardstock and then cut the pieces and laminated them. She liked to match the bear card with the one on the Wild Kratts episode.
- We also watched this Black Bear All Things Animals video.
Bear Crawl
- We talked about how bears walk and looked at the Bear Walk poster. She put her hands and feet on the floor and walked around with her bum up. She also growled a lot!
Bear Writing
- The girls each had a similar writing paper for the letter B. My 3 year old had a capital B and lowercase b with tracing arrows, along with a bear to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added a short poem and more tracing B’s and b’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the B is for Bee, Bus, Bear Teachers Pay Teachers pack.
Bear Hunt Snack
- We got some active time with this Going on a Bear Hunt video.
- Then we had a snack as we read the book Going on a Bear Hunt by Helen Oxenbury. We had shredded celery, goldfish crackers, chocolate chips, pretzel sticks, mini marshmallows, and teddy grahams.
Bear Walk
- After our bear hunt snack we went on our own bear hunt with some sensory bins. We first stepping in grass, then water, and mud, next was sticks and last was ice cubes. The girls loved this and kept playing at it all day.
I spy the letter B
- We did the I Spy the Letter B or b with a dot dauber.
Bear Cave Counting
- I cut a semi circle out of the side of 2 paper bowls and then we painted the bowls brown and painted a paper plate brown too. Next she rolled her large yellow dice and counted the dots. She then counted out the same number of counting bears and placed them into the first cave. She rolled again and placed the bears in the second cave. Then we talked about which cave had more bears.
Bear Patterns
- Next we cut the bears to complete the Bear Pattern page.
Bear Color Match
- I printed out the Bear Color Match game, and cut them out. I laminated them and the cut them again. Then we turned them all upside down and took turns flipping to try to find matching colors. They enjoyed this game, and did great taking turns.
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