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Contact_FullName: Lisa Contact_Email: lisajuarez@comcast.net Idea: Find a small picture of a bear (I copied one onto construction paper) and glue onto a popsicle stick. Make a cave out of a paper lunch bag. Roll the edges back (to shorten the cave). Add cotton balls on the top of the cave and add leaves or shredded green tissue paper to the inside. Place the popsicle bear in its lair. You can also use the popsicle bear to focus on prepositions - on top, under, beside, under, etc.
I made puppets for "Brown bear, brown Bear" using rounded hangers with different colored nylons over them. I made the red bird, blue horse etc. with felt, then the children could hold up puppet when red the group said red bird or purple horse.
After reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See, make a picture book using real pictures of your students. Caption first picture with Brown Bear Brown Bear what do you see? then, on the second page, I see Michael looking at me. Continue with all the children. Pictures are put on 5 by 7 cards with a hook placed on the top left corner. Put in your "reading" center.
Every year in my kindergarten class, we have a teddy bear picnic where each child brings their own teddy bear from home (I bring a few extra in case some forget and need to borrow). We make sandwiches and cut them into different shapes and eat them. We play bear music (Teddy Bear's Picnic, Bear went over the mountain, etc.) The children love it!
Everyone has plastic counting bears, they float in your water table! To add math, fine motor and science, I have large plastic tweezers (the kind that come in the Bed Bugs Game) and cups. The children pick up the bears with the tweezers and put them in the cups. The children use all kinds of number words, counting, and are really strengthening their little hands for writing.
Center idea Have a boo-boo bear medical clinic. Provide stethoscope, shot, band aids, ace bandage, etc. for children to fix the boo-boo. Add a checklist of procedures for early graphing experience.
Bear puppets- Photocopy a picture of a bear. Cut out the bear and attach to a wide craft stick. For brown bear study we color or paint them brown. For polar bears we use glitter or white batting to coat the bear.
Hibernation Party The week of Ground Hogs Day we always study a winter unit revolving around animals, especially bears. This year to kick off our study of animals and hibernation we had a Hibernation Party. The children arrived in their pajamas and brought their bears. We had many soft pillows and made "dens" for the children. The children enjoyed having a day in their pajamas. We had pancakes cut in the shape of bears. We had strawberries for snacks with bear shaped cookies.
ideaHave a day where the children bring in their own teddy bears. Weigh and measure them and make a graph showing the largest to the smallest and heaviest to lightest. Make special awards for all of the bears ("Most Fluffy", "Cutest Nose", etc.) Make sure you bring a few extra bears for those who may forget. The children have a great time!! Bear materials needed: black, brown or white poster paper black, brown or white yarn to match poster paper. eyes (buttons, hearts, or paper) nose (buttons, hearts, or paper) 1 sheet of pink and black construction paper paint brush for each child glue paper cup for glue tray or newspaper for each child to work on students or teacher project preparation: cut out bear shape on poster paper cut yarn into small pieces cut out pink oval mouth from pink construction paper cut out black small circle to glue on pink mouth Directions: Give each student a tray or newspaper to work on. Give each student a bear. Give each student glue in paper cup. Give each student a paint brush. Have each student pick out two eyes and glue on bear. Give each student a nose to glue on bear. Give each student a pink oval for bears mouth to glue on sideways. Give each student a black circle to glue over pink oval. Give each student pieces of yarn to glue all over bear. Now you have a fuzzy, wuzzy, bear! What about having a teddy bear sleep over at school. Each child brings a stuffed bear (or other animal) along with a blanket, book, etc. The bear and supplies stay at school as if hibernating over night. I use a Polaroid camera to take pictures of the bears "at night time." We move the bears to a location/ activity that the child likes and take a picture. The bears are supposed to be sleeping but we caught them in action!
Enlarge a picture of a bear's face and let the children make bear masks using either ties for around their heads or attach to tongue depressor to be held. Decorate with fur pieces.
Teddy Bear Lacing Cards Cut out a teddy bear shape on heavy posterboard. Laminate. Cover with fake brown fur. Punch holes around card. Let children lace around shape, for fine motor skills. Name:
We recently had a week entitled Birds and Bears in Autumn. We did several fun crafts and activities. The favorites were the bear cave (with a pond made out of construction paper put under Plexiglas, teddy bears, and teddy bear pictures), the teddy bear hunt (we hid the teddy bears at a few tables in the sleep room so the children would find their favorite bear to sleep with before naptime). We also had a teddy bear picnic with teddy bear and animal crackers. Our teddy bears were invited to the teddy bear picnic at the end of the week and were involved in all aspects of the program.
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