We're Going on a Bear Hunt is such a fun book for kids and the perfect way to start our 3 week long bear unit! All week we read, retold, wrote about, and played with this story.
During the week, our sensory box was filled with materials to retell the story. We had cotton for snow, blue rocks for the river, blocks to build the house, brown play-doh for the mud, a paper mache cave, a little patch of fake grass, and plastic trees for the forest. The kids were very creative and had lots of fun retelling the story.
I bought this great packet on TPT from Kristen Smith here. The kids really like the real pictures, and we were working on sequencing and ordinal numbers. The packet also included some great writing prompts and really good material for positional words.
We ended the week with our own Bear Hunt!! First we made our binoculars. I just stapled 2 toilet paper rolls together and let them paint them.
I set up the bear hunt using mostly paper. I wish I had taken better pictures of this. In the background of the picture above you can see the river and the mud. Below is the forest, snowstorm, and cave.
It seems simple, but the kids loved every second of it. We repeated the book as we went through it. We really got into it, shivering in the snowstorm and getting our feet stuck in the mud. I had as much fun as the kids!
During this week, we used teddy bear counters for all of our math. We went on a "Bear Hunt" for the counters that were spread all over the room. Then we counted them by 5's and 10's.
We used the Teddy Bear Counters to work on addition. This is available in my Teddy Bear Counters Pack here. This includes addition and sorting.
We had a fun week. Up next, Part 2 of our Bear Unit- Non-fiction research about bears and paper mache caves.
Thanks!
Jill
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