Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Today we finished up a project we have been working on that focuses on Bill Martin's Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Each day we have read the story and then the students have worked on their very own Brown Bear Book. They have colored the animals to match what they are like in the book.

This activity has been great for helping the children learn to pick out the different colors in our world around us. It has also been an introduction into reading. The very first day that we read the story, we talked about some of the different things that North Carolina defines as "book-print awareness". We found the title of the book and then looked for things like the front cover, back cover, and the spine.

Now that we have finished up our Brown Bear Books, I want the children to take them home and practice "Reading" them with their parents. The story is a very predictable text that the students can remember. This will help them to practice how we go through a book from left to right and turn the pages. Even though there are no words in our Brown Bear Books, we can still practice the way that we will read once we are a little more ready!