Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

                                          Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

                                                              By Bill Martin Jr.

 

 

                                                                 

                                                  Brown Bear Story Props

 

 

 

Concepts and Themes

• Color words
• Various animals
• Repeatable phrases

 

 

Expanded Core Curriculum Activities

 

Compensatory Skills

• Use a tape recorder to tape the child retelling the story.  Let the child listen to their own telling of the story.  Demonstrate how to record and play back the recordings.  Have the child make the animal sounds.

 

• Take photos of all of our staff at our kindergarten center and make a book called “Teacher, Teacher, Who Do You See?” It helps kids get to know other adults in building.

 

• Sequence the animals in the order which presented in the book

Have children use their own names to ask other children what animal they saw.

 

• Make a big book, directions on the website

http://www.thevirtualvine.com

 

 

                                   

 

 

Social Interaction

• Have children sit across from each other in pairs.  Begin a rhyme, “friend, friend, who do you see?”  The other child answers “I see ____ looking at me”.  Children can then switch roles and then partners. 

 

 

Independent Living Skills

• Bear Biscuits: canned biscuits, raisins, nuts

Use one biscuit for the bear’s head, cut the other biscuit in half to make two half circles for the ears.  Pinch dough off to make a small nose.  Put the two half circles so that they touch the top of the circle.  Use raisins and nuts for eyes and mouth.  Bake according to directions

 

• Bear Sandwiches: bread, peanut butter, raisins, nuts

Use a circle cookie or biscuit cutter to cut two circles out of bread.  Cut one of the circles in half for the bear’s ears.  Put peanut butter on the bread.  Use peanut butter to glue the ears to the head.  Use raisins and nuts for eyes and mouth

 

 

Visual Efficiency Skills

• Paint in a Bag: using quart-size resealable bags, put liquid tempera paint mixed with some liquid dish detergent in each bag.  Place the bags on the lightbox.  The child can then squeeze, squish, and mix the paint in the bag. 

 

• Make colored Jell-O, place each separate color in a clear bowl (Gladware works well).  The child can identify the colors as they are read in the story.

 

• Facial/Picture Discrimination

Take photographs of each of the children in the group.  Hand out a picture to each child, and ask, “Julie, Julie, who do you see?”  Prompt if needed, “I see ______ looking at me”.  Can do same activity with pictures of family members or adults in the school.

 

• Large Printable color or black/white pictures of each of the animals.  Each is two 8 x 11 ½ sheets wide.  http://www.dltk-teach.com/books/brownbear/index.htm

 

Self-determination

• Create a book with the same repeatable pattern.  Book entitled “children, children, what can you do?”  On the pages, the child can name something that they are able to do.  Add a photo or object representative of the skill as appropriate.  Text could include “I can brush my teeth, can you?”  Repeat the phrases with adding additional skills.