Bring Your Bear to School Day

We just finished our unit on  Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  I sent a note home for students to bring their bears to school.  Students that did not have a bear could bring another stuffed animal.  I also had a few extra bears for those that did not remember to bring a bear.  We started our morning out with our bear introductions.  Students shared their bear name and something special about their bear.

Then we read the story We're Going on a Bear Hunt.

Then we retold the story by creating a map. 

Then we had to act out the motions of going on a bear hunt so that we could get our bears for the next activity. Next, we sorted our bears by size. We had small, medium and large bears.  This led to great class discussion on how we determine the size of our bears.  We compared our bears to others in the classroom to make this determination.

 Then we sorted our bears by the colors of our bears.  We sorted our bears by black, brown, white and other.

Once we completed this sort, the students graphed the colors of bears.  We used this free product on Teachers pay Teachers for the graph.  

We also measured how tall our bears were with snap cubes.

Then we did some subtraction using a parachute.  I had 10 students put their bears (10) on the parachute for a little ride.  Some bears fell off and we counted how many were still on the parachute and how many fell off.  

Next year we want to build a scale to compare weight of bears to each other.  We will also order our bears by size from smallest to largest.  We can also use ordinal numbers when doing this.  I did like this day and will do it again.  Here are some books we read this week to go with our bear week.

We also read non fiction books on bears.