We're Going On A Bear Hunt, We're Gonna Catch A Big One!

We had so much fun learning about bears last week. We learned about Real/Living and Pretend/Nonliving bears. Things that are Real/Alive breath air, eat, and move on their own and things that are Pretend/ Not Alive can't do any of these things.

What would a week of learning about bears be without Going On A Bear Hunt. We read and acted out the story of the bear hunt and let me tell you we were all worn out after going through the tall tall grass, swimming through the river, trudging through the icky sticky mud, going through the forest and the windy 

On Tuesday we watched a Video of Brown Bear, Brown, Bear What Do You See and then we had to work together to place all of the animals in order of where they were in the story. I believe we got every one of them correct! Afterwards each student made their own Brown Bear and then they had to use their super smart brains to think of something their bear would see.

We learned all about Panda bears on Wednesday. Did you know Panda bears are from China and they love to eat Bambo. We looked at our globe to find our Country and to see how far away China is. We sure are glad we have Panda's in our zoo so we can see them anytime we would like. 

We already learned all about Polar Bars when we learned about winter animals. My friends were able to remember a polar bear has black skin and clear fur. Each students used a sponge to paint in the outline of their snow bear and later after everything dried they created their cute little faces.

One Friday since we had learned so much about bears that are alive we wanted to learn about a pretend bear. We read the story of Corduroy  a little bear who wanted a home. It was silly reading a story about a pretend bear who could walk and talk since we know he is just a pretend bear and can't really do any of these things, but it sure is fun to pretend.

For jobs this week we made a B bear

a butterfly b

We worked on direction following and counting. 

We counted Brown Bear animals and correctly matched the number 

and we worked on 10 frame counting