Ask children to volunteer their ideas about what is the same and what is different about the two stories. Draw a large Venn diagram on butcher paper and tape it to the wall. Choose two books to compare and contrast with children. Read an assortment of books that retell the Goldilocks and the Three Bears folktale in different ways and with an assortment of illustration styles. Together, create the different areas (river, tree, bridge, grass, etc.).Īn assortment of Goldilocks and the Three Bears themed stories Read the book or listen to the CD Version from Dr. At the end of the rhyme, choose three children to wake up the bears. Choose one to three children to be the bears. I'm a Little Brown Bear Song and Movement Activity Move the bowl around and choose one child to wake up the bear. Add a different sticker to each bowl or box. Gather three boxes or plastic bowls and place them upside down on the floor. Make a bear cave out of a brown paper bag.

(Cover fist with other hand.)īear Cave Craft (Step-by-step instruction and patterns available inside our KidsSoup Resource Library) Inside the bear sleeps all cozy and snug. (Move thumb in circle.)Īnd there he will hide. He hunts in the forest for berries to eat.

He stays all summer In sunshine and heat. Here is a cave, (Ball up hand into a fist.) Then move your left arm and left leg forward. Move your right arm and right leg forward at the same time. Provide plastic berries or food items for the bear to bring in their cave to eat during the cold winter months.ĭemonstrate ambling by placing your hands flat on the floor with your knees relatively straight. Transform a table into a bear by covering it with a brown blanket or sheet. Together, learn what bears do to get ready for winter and how bears hibernate during the winter. Taking turns, each team member walks in a bear-walk to the line to collect a food for winter and returns it to his/her team. Place different plastic food items behind a line on the floor. Divide the class into two or three teams. Have a bear relay race to gather food for the winter. Serve and enjoy! Bear hibernation activities: Finish the bear with two banana slices for the ears. Place raisins for the eyes and one for the black nose. Slice banana and use one slice for the bear's nose. Let them color the pair with the fur brush. Use clothespins to hold the fur pieces and dip in to the paint.

Provide small fur pieces and brown paint. Let children brush glue all over the shape and sprinkle coffee grinds or cinnamon to the top. Teddy bear, teddy bear, turn out the lightĬut a bear shape out of brown craft paper. Let children make the movements to the rhyme with their teddy bears: Children can write or dictate letters from their bears at the end of the day telling about the visit to school. Let children prepare a special meal to eat with their bears and have a teddy bear picnic outside. Plan activities that children do with their bears such as measuring, weighing, and sorting the bears, comparing and contrasting the bears, counting bears by twos, and tracing their bears. Plan a special day in which children bring their favorite stuffed bears to school. (This is not a true hibernation because bears remain fully conscious and lose little weight.)īears make several different sounds: snuffling, growling, or grunting.īear cubs are usually born in the winter and stay with their mother for one to three years. Polar bears eat seals, sea birds, fish, and crabs.īears love to sleep in caves or between rocks to use as a den.īears sleep during the winter months to avoid the extreme cold.īears eat a lot during spring, summer, and fall to accumulate fat that allows them to go into a deep sleep during winter.īears sleep day and night during winter but occasionally wake up. Their favorite food: berries, honey, fish, leaves, nuts, rodents, insects, and frogs. Male bears are called boars or he-bears and female bears are called sows or she-bears.īears usually walk on all four feet, moving both legs on one side of their body at the same time (ambling).īears mark trails and trees along their trail by rubbing against the trees with their bodies, scratching them with their claws, or making marks with their teeth.īears are omnivores. Polar bears, grisly bears, etc.īear Facts: Bears are large, heavyset mammals with fur and very short tails. Show pictures of different types of real bears and discuss how they look the same and how they are different. Bears Finger Plays, Rhymes and Activities:

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