Brown Bear, Brown Bear Unit

I have been working on incorporating more literature into my curriculum this year as part of my school's new LAMP (literature, art, music, and poetry) initiative. This month we have been studying Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? The kids and I have had a lot of fun doing activities that correlate to the standards.

We made these brown bears using a fork, wiggle eyes, black markers and pink adhesive foam.

The students made AB patterns using fingerprint animals. This pattern is purple cat, green frog, purple cat, green frog.

This pattern is goldfish, green frog, goldfish, green frog. The pattern below it is yellow duck, green frog, yellow duck, green frog.

We learned about frogs and did this frog research report.

This student is sequencing the animals from Brown Bear according to where they were in the book.

These students are retelling the Brown Bear story with our flannel board set.

This is a pocket chart story that the kids can manipulate on their own.

The students made patterns with goldfish and teddy grams.

We made brown bear treats for cooking on Friday.

Apple Labeling and Apple Graphing

This month our theme is apples. We are doing many fun activities using apples. We did an apple labeling activity to learn about the anatomy of an apple.

 The students had to draw seeds on the apple's flesh.

 The students' apples came out so cute!

This is a graph of our favorite apples. First, the students tried a slice of a green, red, and yellow apple and decided which one was their favorite. Next, they  put an apple cutout on the graph that was the same color as the apple that they liked the best. Last, we analyzed the graph and figured out which apple most of the students liked the best.