This was a pretty good week! In addition to our regular curriculum, we added in a small bear study, and we had a lot of fun. Some weeks work out better than others, and this was a good one!
We started the week by reading We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, and learning about different types of bears. Wyatt’s favorite is the American Black Bear, and I am partial to the Moon Bear. My niece and mom were doing the same study and Dinogirl said her favorite bear is the Spirit Bear while my mom liked the pandas. We also went on a “bear hunt” around our house, playing hide and seek with a toy bear. We discussed the anatomy of a bear (the basics) and created our own bears out of playdough.
Midweek we talked about hibernation, read some books, and made a little bear in a den scene. It was also a gorgeous if a wee bit windy fall day so we took school on the road to the park, where we worked on science.
Today we are going to finish up with some fun stuff, like participating in Fat Bear Week by voting for our family favorite, and then if the clouds cooperate, looking for Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, the bears in the sky tonight!
Next week we are doing a mini-study based on ravens and Edgar Allen Poe… should be fun with kindergartners lol! But I found a few resources to make it more their speed- I just felt it would be fun for October! Or at least, appropriate. Lol.
Resource Round-Up:
Fiddlesticks Education – Bears of the World
Fiddlesticks Eductation – Bearly Awake Journal Pages
Join the Bear Hunt Activity Pages (designed to go with We’re Going on a Bear Hunt)
Books Read:
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Bear Make Den || Welcome Home, Bear || Sneeze, Big Bear, Sneeze || Bear Snores On || We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
Videos Watched:
Black Bear: Animal Facts for Kids
And I rented We’re Going on a Bear Hunt from Amazon
If you are interested in the National Parks Fat Bear Week, you can find it here! If you do check it out, let me know which bear you voted for! Update: This challenge is over but you can still check out the participants!
Great photos, books, and stories about your experiences! I hope you have another great week.
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Thanks Laurel-Rain!
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I love the playdough bear- too cute. Looks like a fun lesson.
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Thank you! We did have a lot of fun!
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This is all so delightful! Love seeing some of these classic books, fun activities, and great outdoor time. And FAT BEAR WEEK! We learned about this for the first time this year and are seriously here for it.
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Fat Bear Week is awesome!!!! It cracks me up and makes me smile. The Appalachian Bear Club or something like that started one too, I saw on Instagram. And thank you! We had fun with bear week!
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Bears are much cuter in books. That Bear Snores On my nephew used to love those books. I think he had passed some down to my kids in the past.
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Yes much cuter in books! I would not want to run into one in real life, I don’t think! I love the Bear Snores on series too – Wyatt loves them as well. They are so cute!
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