PRIMARY STORY: Begin each day by reading the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr. VIDEO: View this nursery song version of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY: Writing Practice, Heads and Tails Matching Game, Color Match Supplies: Brown Bear Printables Crayons or Markers Paper and Cardstock Print the Heads and Tails Matching Game (page 3-4) on cardstock and cut it out. Color Match and Writing Practice can be printed on regular printer paper.
ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY: Bear Tracks Process Art Supplies: cardboard (2) sponges hot glue gun and glue art paper paint scissors 1. Cut two cardboard rectangles (a bit larger than the sponge) 2. Trace a bear print onto each sponge and cut out pieces. 3. Glue pieces to cardboard to make you bear print stamps. 4. Have your child stamp paint tracks onto the paper. Note: You can also do prints of other animals from the story.
EXPLORATIONS Learn some interesting facts about bears:
Step 1: Cut out the blueberry number labels and affix to small cups.
Step 2:Fill a bowl with at least 55 blue pom-poms (or rotate them out and do less numbers at a time).
Step 3: Show your student how to use the tongs to transfer the poms from the bowl to the cup.
Step
4: Help your student to count and transfer the appropriate number of "blueberries" to the corresponding cup.
The Spawn preferred using his fingers to the tweezers. They were a bit too large for his hands. This was a big hit and he asked for it twice after we'd moved on to other things. :)
ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY: Blueberry Muffins
INGREDIENTS
1.5 cups all-purpose flour 3/4 cup sugar 1/2 tsp salt 2 tsp baking powder 1/3 cup vegetable oil 1 egg approx. 1/2 cup buttermilk 1 cup fresh blueberries For the topping: 2/3 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup all purpose flour 2 tbsp butter at room temperature 1/4 tsp cinnamon (optional) DIRECTIONS 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray top and cups of muffin pan with non-stick spray. 2. Combine flour, brown sugar and baking powder. 3. In a 1-cup measuring cup, combine oil and egg. Add enough buttermilk to fill cup. Add to flour mixture. Stir until just combined. Fold in blueberries. 4. Fill muffin cups to the top. Sprinkle with crumb topping. 5. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Increase temperature to 400 and bake for an additional 3-7 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Allow to cool in pan for 5-10 minutes before removing. Crumb Topping: 1. Mix brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, and butter with a fork until combined.
EXPLORATIONS
Go fruit picking. Look for you-pick farms and bring home a bounty of fruits or veggies.
Store something for the winter: You could learn to preserve or can food. If you have a fireplace or fire pit, go out and gather firewood. This is a good time to talk about saving money for later. Count coins into a piggybank or open a bank account.
Watch this video to learn what kinds of foods bears eat:
