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Real Bears |
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Bear Facts
Bears are large animals with thick, strong legs. Bears have big heads, little eyes and small round ears. All bears are covered with heavy fur.
"Bears can see and hear like us. Bears have a very good sense of smell. Bears can stand on their hind legs to smell and see better. Bears are smart and curious animals.
There are 8 different kinds of bears - brown bears, American black bears, polar bears, giant panda bears, Asiatic black bears, sloth bears, spectacled bears and sun bears. Brown bears are also called grizzly bears. Bears live in all parts of the world, except Africa, Australia and Antarctica.
Most bears eat nuts, fruit, berries, plants, insects, honey, fish and other animals. Polar bears eat seals which they catch out on the ice in the Arctic Ocean. Giant panda bears eat the leaves of the bamboo plant. Bears must get big to get ready for winter. To eat as much as a big bear, we would have to eat 50 hamburgers and 12 large orders of french fried potatoes each day for many weeks.
Mother bears can have 1, 2 or 3 cubs. Cubs are about the size of a small squirrel or chipmunk when born. They grow quickly by feeding on their mother's milk. They start to eat other foods after a few months. The cubs stay with their mother for a few years. The mother bear teaches them how to find food and how to stay safe.
Many bears live where the winter is very cold. In these places, bears
will find or make a den. They will enter the den when it gets too cold
and stay there until spring. This deep sleep is called "hibernation". Bears
will not eat or drink during this time. Cubs are born while the mother
bear is hibernating. "
Goal: To teach an understanding of bears and their habitats.
Objective: Students will be able to:
To see what he could see,
To see what he could see
The other side of the mountain,
The other side of the mountain,
The other side of the mountain,
Was all that he could see
Was all that he could see,
Was all that he could see,
The other side of the mountain,
Was all that he could see!
1. Today we will discuss the black bear's size, where he/she lives,
how many babies are born and what black bears eat.
2. We will look at a paw print of a bear and compare it to the animals
foot prints we are familiar with. Size, number of toes, etc.
3. We will read a book on bears, followed by a group discussion.
We will list information on our white board as we recall facts about
black bears.
4. Math: With the information we have
on the average black bear's size, we will draw and cut out a likeness
of a black bear. The students will connect unifix cubes to measure the
bears height and length. We will use the cut out to compare the student's
size to that of a black bear.
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Fictional Bears |
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Week II
Fictional Bears
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn around,
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, touch the ground,
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, reach up high
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, wink one eye,
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, slap your knees,
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, sit down please.
Day 1. Blue Berries for Sal
Last week the kindergartners found a note left in the room. The
note said "Little Bear" had stopped to visit and would return on Monday.
He said he would share his favorite food and read us a story. They students
are very excited.
Questions asked by the students:
1. Who is "Little Bear?"
2. Is he a real bear?
3. Could he be the little bear on T.V.?
He did it again. Little Bear visited us while we were out of the
classroom. A basket was left on a chair in the front of the room.
Inside the basket were the following items: blueberries, a book titled,
Blue
Berries for Sal, a note explaining why Little Bear had to leave
in a hurry and a fuzzy teddy bear to remind of our bear unit.. Our class
read the note. We read and discussed the story he left us and we ate the
bear food (blue berries).
Hibernation: Discussion. We will list the facts we know about hibernation
and review them.
Craft: Hibernation
Students will color a picture of a sleeping bear.
Students will cut out the sleeping bear. They will glue the sleeping
bear inside of a cave. On the front of the cave the students will use crayons
to draw rocks and make it look like a real cave.
Math:
Bear Counters: Ordinal Position
Day 2: Corduroy
Questions I will ask before I read the story:
What makes something valuable?
Why is it so important to Corduroy to find his button?
When the story has been read, I would like you to tell me how this
story makes you feel and why?
What is corduroy? I will pass a piece of corduroy around for
the students to feel.
After reading the story is read, we will discuss the questions above.
Craft: Paper Plate Teddy Bears
Need: Brown paint, paper plates, Scissors, Crayons, Red and Brown
constructing paper, Brown yarn, Glue, and a Black pom pom.
Directions: Let the Children paint a paper plate brown. Give then
a chose of light, medium and dark drown. When they are dry they can add
construction paper ears, eyes and bow tie (or hair bow). Let the children
glue on some brown yarn hair for texture. Draw a mouth and put on a pom
pom nose.
Math: Buttons.
Sort:
Each student will get a handful of buttons.
The students will be asked to group their buttons.
Each students will explain the way their buttons are groups.
As each students explains, the different attributes will be listed
and reviewed.
Ie. No hole, 2 holes, 3 holes, 4 holes,
color, size, plain, designs, wood, plastic, round, flat..etc.
Count:
Graph mat & 8 buttons
Student will arrange the correct number of
buttons as I hold up a numeral. 1-8
Patterns
Students will be given buttons and asked to
arrange them in a pattern.
1. a a a a a a...
2. a b a b a b...
3. a b c a b c a b c...
Day 3: Corduroy's Pocket
Math: Bears and
Pockets
Three pockets are glued on a mat. Large,
Medium, Small
The students will use teddy bear counters
to do the following math:
Math:
Sequence Order
The students will color a work sheet with Little Bear checking his
bowl, his chair and his bed.
The students will cut the three pictures out.
The students will arrange them in sequence order and glue them on
a piece of construction paper.
We will use this as an Arizona Standard Test for Understanding
Sequence Order and orally ask each student to recall the story and it's
characters.
This test will help us to track the students and see if they understand
content and sequence order of events in stories.
The Story:
"Once there was a beautiful white polar bear who lived in the zoo.
(Set bear filled with water on the table). Every day the children
came to the zoo to watch the bear. Whenever they saw the bear they
would clap their hands and stomp their feet...can you do that?....Anyway,
one day the polar bear stood by his fence watching workmen pant nearby
buildings. Three cans of paint were left by the fence when the workmen
went home. Polar Bear reached through the fence and grabbed the cans.
That night, he dipped his big paw into the first can of paint and painted
himself....."
"The next day, the children came and the Polar Bear did his tricks.
The children clapped their hands and stamped their feet and said:
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, your color's too bright, We like you best when
your color was.....WHITE."...
Day 1. Yellow Food Coloring
Day 2. Blue Food Coloring
Day 3. Red Food Coloring
Day 4. Bleach
| Angie's: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See? | Lesson Exchange:
Brown Bear, Brown Bear...
TeachersNet |
| Corduroy: Literature Extension |
| Winnie
the Pooh: Pooh Friends
(fun online) |
Winnie the Pooh: Extracts |
| Ultimate Pooh Site | |
| History of Pooh | Winnie the Pooh Bear:
Lots of Information |
Pooh
(pictures of the original toys) |
| Paddington Bear
Original Website |
| Berenstain Bears: Fun Stuff |
| The Berenstain Bear's Web Site |
| Proteacher | Take Home Bear Project |
| Addies Beary Fun Activities* | Weaving Technology into a Bear Unit* | 4 Day Mini Unit: Bears |
| Education World: Integrated Bear Unit | Bear Clip Art |
| Polar Bear Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?
by Bill Martin, Jr. Pictures by Eric Carle Little Polar Bear
Little Polar Bear Finds a Friend
Ahoy There Little Polar Bear
Jamberry
Hairy Bear
Bears
The
Bear Family (Lesson)
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Corduroy (Lesson)
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
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