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Before you begin your week-long celebration, send home a note asking parents to allow their children to bring in Pooh-related items to decorate the classroom for the week.
Winnie-the-Pooh
If you only know "Winnie-the-Pooh" and his friends from movies, cartoonss, or commercial versions based on the original work, you are in for a special treat. Milne's writing is filled with humor, poetry, and a childlike sense of wonder. Each chapter is an adventure in itself! Your students will want to hear every story and do each related activity for an entire week of fun-filled learning with Pooh.
Before introducing the first Pooh story, refer to the map of the 100 Aker Wood found at the beginning of the book. On a large piece of bulletin-board paper, draw in streams and label each site shown on the map. Mount the bulletin-board paper on a wall. As each story is read, have students locate and color in the sites relating to the story.
Pooh's cloud disguise didn't trick the bees. Help your students develop critical thinking skills by challenging them to ccome up with a better disguise for Pooh. Have each student draw Pooh in disguise. Then have them write a verse that explains the disguise, similar to Pooh's cloud verse in the story.
How sweet to be a Cloud
How sweet to be a Cloud
-Chapter I "In Which We Are Introduced to Some Bees, and the Stories Begin"
Pooh's love of honey gets him into a really sticky situation when he eats so much that he can't get out of the door to Rabbit's house.
Get your students up and humming as they discover how many friends it takes to pull Pooh out of the rabbit hole. Tie a stuffed Pooh bear (or another bear dressed to look like Pooh) to the middle of a rope. Cut a large circle from a piece of black bulletin-board paper. Place the circle on the ground. Divide your class into small groups and have the groups take turns playing "Tug-the-Pooh." Instruct one group to hold onto one end of the rope and another to hold the opposite end. Encourage each group to pull as hard as it can on the rope when you say "Pull Pooh!"
The first group to pull the Pooh bear past the edge of the hole
(the black circle) wins. Continue playing until each group has a chance to play.
Pooh may have been Foolish and Deluded, but your students won't be fooled by this fun math activity. Hot-glue empty spools onto footprint shapes cur from sponges. Spread newspaper over several tables and watch the footsteps multiply when your students try to catch the Woozle. Pair your students, and then designate one student to be Pooh and one to be Piglet in each pair. Give each student two footprint shapes, and give each pair of students two colors of tempera paint and a large sheet of white paper. Ask one of each pair to draw a circle in the middle of the paper. Instruct each pair to "walk" around the circle one time by dipping their sponges into the paint, then stamping sets of footprints on the paper. After they complete one circle, have them stop to count the footprints and write down the total. Have them make a second circle of footprints, then stop to count these as well. Continue until the paper is full. Challenge students to write simple multiplication problems to represent each circuit around the paper.
Poor Eeyore has lost his tail and it's up to Pooh to find it.
Pooh and Piglet set out to trap a Heffalump with a pot of honey as bait, bit Pooh gets caught in his own sweet trap.
Heffalumps aren't the only ones who love honey; your students will, too. Help your students learn to discriminate between tastes by having a "Heffalump Honey Taste Test." Provide graham crackers and four or five different kinds of honey, such as orange blossom, clover, buckwheat, or tupelo. Supply bee stickers or a bee stamp and stamp pad. Create a graph, listing each variety of honey to be tested at the top of a column. Determine a simple scale for evaluating the honey, such as three bees=very tasty, two bees=tasty, and one bee=not so tasty. Ask each student to spread each kind of honey on a cracker, then taste that flavor. After they taste each flavor, have students record their reactions by sticking the appropriate number of bee stickers (or stamping the appropriate number of bees) on the graph, under the corresponding heading. When all of your students finish the exercise, discuss the outcome.
Owl is a very creative speller, just as your students may be. As you read aloud this story, stop to draw a picture of a honey pot on the board and wrire Owl's birthday greeting on it. Ask your students if they can read the greeting and if it seems to be spelled correctly.
Coming Soon!!!
Rabbit, Pooh, and Piglet plan to capture Baby Roo, but when Piglet takes Roo's place in Kanga's pocket, he's in for the scrub of his life.
Lead your students on an expotition. Includes directions for the adventure, clue cards, and a special award. :-) Enjoy!!
A flood forces Pooh to escape to a broad branch of his tree with his pots of honey, but he must leave his honey behind when he finds a note in a bottle written by Piglet, who is trapped in his house.
Coming Soon!!!
Christopher Robin rewards Pooh for saving Piglet from the flood by giving him a special party.
Page updated on February 23, 1998
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Spend a week with Winnie and his friends in the Hundred Aker Wood as you share with your students one of the best-loved children's books ever written.
In the first chapter, Pooh's taste for honey takes him up, up, and away when he disguises himself as a small black cloud in a blue sky to sneak up on some bees.
Pooh and Piglet track Woozle footprints in the snow as they circle around and around a tree.
Owl was using Eeyore's tail as a bellpull. What else might have happened to the missing tail? After reading aloud this story, have each student write a rebus story about Eeyore's missing tail. Instruct students to leave adequate space between words and to skip a line between each line for picture flaps. After the stories are complete, have students choose words to illustrate. Give each student a sheet of stiff paper ruled off into one-inch squares. Instruct students to draw a picture in a square for each word chosen to illustrate. Have students cut out each picture flap, fold along the top edge, and then glue the flap over the written word it illustrates.
It's a dismal day for Eeyore, who thinks no one will want to celebrate his birthday, until Pooh and Piglet bring him two of the most unusual presents imaginable.
Christopher Robin, Pooh, and their friends head out in search of the North Pole. When Pooh finds a long pole lying beside a stream, Christopher Robin announces that there quest is over.
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