Three Bears and Families
The three bears is a perfect thematic unit! Not only can you incorporate bears, but you can move into families, Thanksgiving, Christmas, while keeping bears your main theme!
It always surprises me as I begin my theme unit on Families featuring The Three Bears, how few students have heard this delightful traditional tale. It quickly turns into a classroom favorite as we explore version after version. Below are just a few of my favorites with my amazon links.
The story of the three bears is a great way to introduce and practice story elements by retelling, dramatic play reenacting, and charting the elements.
Students fall in love with the family of the three bears! This is a great transition to a theme that is EVERYTHING to a young child, their own family! From the now well-known, and loved bear family consisting of a mama, daddy, and a baby, students can talk about their own families! As you discuss, compare, and contrast family dynamics, students will realize that no matter the configuration —- families are the people you live with and love!
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The Three Bears Thematic Unit will thrill the students in your classroom or homeschool setting.
Who doesn't love The Three Bears! This thematic unit includes fun and engaging time-tested activities. Most are linked strategically to academic Core Standards.
Contents include:
Shared Reading Lessons
Three Brown Bears: Analyzing Directionality and Word Spelling
Story Element Cards: Analyzing Key Details
Literacy Activities:
A Bowl of Porridge: Naming Letters (Alternate: Decoding Words)
Rhyming Friends: Matching Rhymes
Goldie Comes to Visit: Blending Phonemes into Words
Bear School: Speaking Complete Sentences
Math Activities:
Bear Play: Decomposing Numbers less than 10
Porridge Yum Plus One: Adding one to create a sum that is one larger
Race in the Woods: Comparing Numbers
Sweet Baby Bear: Counting Forward
Three Bear Number Hunt: Writing Numerals to match quantity.
Goldilocks Goes to School: Identifying quantity using Ten-Frames and writing numerals
Art Projects
Three Bear Construct
Goldilocks
Three Bear Puppets
Writing
Three Bear Word Wall
I Can Label It
I Can Write a Story
Writing Prompts:
The Three Bears
Goldilocks
Social Studies
My Family: A Family Home-Connection Sheet
Guided Reading Books
The Three Bears (Two Levels)
Songs/Fingerplays
Goldilocks
Three Brown Bears
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This family thematic unit is a collection of themed activities that will connect all facets of the Kindergarten, Pre-K, or Homeschool curriculum to family life. All activities are connected to Core Academic standards.
Contents Include:
Literacy Games/Activities:
Family Vacation: Segmenting Words
The Family Reunion: Producing and Generating Rhyming Words
Family Camping: Identifying Upper and Lowercase Alphabet Letters or Naming Letter Sounds
Family Camping: Identifying Sight Words
Animal Families: Fluently Naming Upper and Lowercase Alphabet Letters or Naming Letter Sounds
Animal Families: Fluently Naming Sight Words
Math Games/Activities:
Birth Order: Gathering, Sorting, and Interpreting Data
Family Counting Tree: Addition and Subtraction
Cookie Jar: Counting On
The Family Tree: Matching Quantity and Numerals
Guided Reading Books
The Family
Songs/Fingerplays
With My Family
Families
My Family Tree
Writing
My Family Tree: Scaffolded Writing Lesson
Family Word Wall
My Family: Writing Prompt
Social Studies
Family Traditions: The Patchwork Quilt
Birth Order: Family Combinations
My Family: A Family Home-Connection Activity
Art
My Family: Shape People
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Bear theme guided readers make learning to read fun and engaging! Kids LOVE these paper bear themed books!
Offering students a paper book that can be colored and taken home offers students authentic purpose for the guided reading instruction and opportunity to practice techniques at home. Plus your kiddos will love them!
Six Books (appx. Leveled B-E) include:
My Teddy Bear
The Brown Bear
Little Bear and Friends
Bear Facts
Color Bears
The Three Bears
Related Products
Bears Great Adventure Christmas Play
Guided Reader Sets
Picture Book Themed Guided Readers
Back To School Themed Guided Readers
Colors Themed Guided ReadersFall Themed Guided Readers
Halloween Themed Guided Readers
Apple Pumpkin Themed Guided Readers
Christmas Themed Guided Readers
Winter Themed Set 1 Guided Readers
Winter Themed Set 2 Guided Readers
February Themed Guided Readers
Dinosaur Themed Guided Readers
End of School Year Themed Guided Readers
Sight Word Readers
Wonders Sight Word Readers
Wonders Sight Word Readers Units 1-5
Wonders Sight Word Readers Units 6-10
Guided Readers For Readers Theater
Readers Theater Little Red Riding Hood
Readers Theater Little Red Hen
Readers Theater Jack and the Beanstalk
Readers Theater The Three Little Pigs
Readers Theater The Billy Goats Gruff
Readers Theater Elves and the Shoemaker
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This Bear unit is divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, social studies, science, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation and, have been successfully implemented in real kindergarten classrooms!
All activities are clearly labeled with objectives and strategically linked to Core Standards
Literacy Activities:
Woodland Friends At the Park: Identifying Beginning and Ending Sounds
Corduroy Game: Identification of Upper and Lowercase letters or Sight Words
ABC Honey Hunt: Identifying Alphabet Letters, Naming Letter Sounds, or Reading CVC words
Bear Match: Matching Letters of the Alphabet or Reading Sight Words
Bear Twins: Compound Word Deletion
Bear Hunt: Writing Lowercase Letters
Math Activities:
Teddy Bear Picnic: Spatial Intelligence and Estimation Strategies
Bears and Buttons: Counting With a One-to-one Correspondence
Button Up Bear: Decomposing Numbers
Pattern Bears: Extending Patterns
Race Car Riot: Ordering Numbers 1-12
Counting Hives: Number Sense Worksheet
Bear Flashcards: Number Recognition or Write the Room
Art Projects
The Bears
Poky Bear
Corduroy Portfolio Sample
How To Draw A Bear
Writing Prompts/Word Wall
Label It Bear
What I Know About Bears
Bear Words
Bears Word Wall Words (Real Photos)
Science
Hibernating Bears: Bear Facts
Songs
I Like Bears (With Additional Activities)
Poky Bear
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear
Corduroy
Guided Reading Books
Where Is My Bear?
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The Bear's Great Adventure is a Christmas musical play or program written in four acts. It includes up to 52 speaking parts and a wide assortment of familiar and new, but simple songs.
