These bear crafts for kindergarten and preschool will go great with all of your bear themed units and activities. Check out all 19 ideas!

Ah, fork printing! We are at it again with a clever idea ~ panda bears! It is a pretty simple art project that the kids can make by themselves. Use plastic forks for an easy

This is a great lesson for teaching how to realistically portray a polar bear using chalk pastels to help with shading. I found this...

We love learning about polar bears and creating polar bear crafts in the winter. Do you?

Counting Bear Graphing is a great introduction to counting activity and it is FREE. It is perfect for preschool and kindergarten.

Do your kids love learning about animals as much as mine do? I know I can always save the with a trip to the zoo, but unfortunately here in Wisconsin zoo trips don’t happen too often in the freezing cold temps. But winter IS the perfect time to learn about polar animals indoors, so this week […]

1-2-3 Come Do Some "Goldilocks & the 3 Bears" Craftivities With Me Since "retelling and sequencing a story" are standards I have to teach, I wanted to design a simple and fun little craft that my Young 5s could make, to use as a "hands-on" manipulative, which would "p...

Goldilocks and the Three Bears curriculum theme unit for childcare, homeschool, preschool or kindergarten teachers. Includes printable activities math literacy

Very small and quite crochet amigurumi cute model. Actually, although I don’t like brown, it’s pretty good. Right here you can see how to make...

For our last project during quarter three, we completed a colored pencil rendition of Frank Big Bear's unique style. Even with a snow day in...

Paddington Bear fans will love bringing Paddington Bear "to life" in their own home, with this adorable and easy to make Paddington Bear Craft!

Gummy Bear Experiment The kiddos LOVED this one...probably more so because we gave them the left over gummy bears, but it was fun to keep checking on how the gummy bears were changing through the day. We simply filled four clear, short cups with water and added in a bit of each additional ingredient. The shorter cups help for better viewing by students! For more information about this experiment, visit here! Materials ready! Get the each cup ready with the liquids and/or mixtures. Drop in a gummy bear! We liked to keep the cups on the mat so we could remember the type of liquid in each cup. After about a whole day in the liquids, it's time to take the gummy bears out! We placed them on the mat and compared them to a new gummy bear to notice changes! Want to pair a book with this experiment? Try Don't Feed the Bear! Grab it on Amazon! (affiliate link) Here's the recording sheet we used! Click the pic to download a copy!

We love to have a Simple Science Experiment every Friday. This is an easy way to boost practice of experimentation, exploration, and observation in the classroom. Plus, they are SUPER fun and allow for student participation! Come see some of our favorites and grab a recording sheets for your kiddos to use! Simple Science for Primary Kiddos Once we're ready to introduce science lessons and experiments in the classroom, we love using this activity! We start with reading the book What is Science? It's simple and easy to read for primary kiddos. Here are some more fun reads for introducing science exploration in the classroom! Click on the links to grab them on Amazon! (affiliate links) What is Science? Cece Loves Science Ada Twist Scientist Goodnight Lab We also pull out this Learning Resources Science Kit! It's got lots of common tools a scientist uses and is great for displaying as we make the chart! These tools can be added to the chart and you can give kiddos a visual by showing them the tools. Kiddos can also hold the tools and explore with the tools. Grab this Science Kit on Amazon! (affiliate link) This kit make a great addition to a Science Center for display all year! We like to set all of the tools our for kiddos to continue to explore. We also grab tools from this kit all through the year as we do our Simple Science experiments each Friday! Simple and Fun Experiments! Click each picture to visit the blog post for the experiment. You can read about how to set up the experiment, find a paired read aloud book, and grab a recording sheet to use with your kiddos! Walking Rainbow Growing Rainbow Mixing Colors Fireworks in a Jar Colored Rubber Eggs Gummy Bear Experiment Magic Milk Lava Lamps Black Magic Oil and Water Rotten Teeth Making Ice Grow Grow a Tree Popcorn in Salt Color Changing Potions Rainbow Clouds

This Indigenous (Aboriginal, First Peoples, First Nations) lesson and art project on Courage is a meaningful package that blends the Indigenous Seven Sacred Teachings, also known as the Seven Grandfather Teachings, with Social Emotional Learning (SEL). This resource engages students to explore what the Indigenous value of courage means, and allows students to understand themselves better, become more confident, and learn to face their fears. What You Get: 7 Slides/PowerPoint Lesson 2 activity/worksheets A Roy Henry Vickers inspired art project 1 game 1 Poster for classroom display This package is also great for Back to School, National Aboriginal (Indigenous) Day, or Orange Shirt Day Thank you for your purchase, and please take a moment to review this product once downloaded. You may also be interested in my other products: Seven Sacred Teachings/Social Emotional Learning - Respect Indigenous Social Studies & Research/Inquiry Unit - Complete Bundle Indigenous Unit - PowerPoint/PDF Slides & Activities Fur Trade Bundle - With Indigenous Perspectives The Orange Shirt Story - A Residential School Unit for Orange Shirt Day (Also in French) Stolen Words: A Residential School Unit for Primary (Also in French) Top 10 First Day Of School Books with Lessons (FREE) Top 20 Indigenous Books for Classrooms and School Libraries For Free Resources and Updates: Follow me on TPT by clicking here Instagram: @onecuriousworlded

This page has a lot of free printabel Easy puzzle crafts(activities) for kids,parents and preschool teachers.

These art projects and activities are a wonderful accompaniment to your lessons on the Arctic and polar regions. You could easily tie this unit in with our Inuit (Eskimo) craft projects to add in cultural

Inside you'll find an easy step-by-step How to Draw a Bear in a Sweater Tutorial and Bear Coloring Page. Stop by and download yours for free.

Here’s a fun binocular and map craft inspired by the popular children’s book, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt! This kids’ activity is a great way to bring the story to life for kids of all ages. The post also includes a free printable sequencing sheet for kids. Follow our Children’s Book Activities Pinterest board! …

Free printable worksheets for preschoolers.5 sheets.These free printable 5 Senses Worksheets help your students learn more about their body.Sense of Sound.Sense of Touch.Sense of Smell.Sense

Hello friends! I finally finished a pack I've been working on and wanted to share it with you on Kindergarten Dragons 'Spotlight Saturday'linky. Thank you, Erin, for allowing everyone to showcase something on their blog. I always use the book 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You Hear?' by Bill Martin Jr and Eric Carle at the beginning of the school year to assess the stages of color learning for my little ones. Since there are three stages to color recognition, it's an easy way to take a quick peek at each individual student. The repetitive text of the book also make it a favorite among my sweet peas. They quickly memorize it and enjoy 'reading along' with me. I know there are tons of really great freebies to go along with this book and I have used lots of them. However, I hadn't found everything I needed for all the different levels of learning, especially at the beginning of the year when everyone seem to come in at such varying degrees of skills. My pack is 81 pages and is filled with retelling activities and ideas, along with essential questions about the book, plus tons of ways to differentiate according to the level of the learner. I have also included ways to make your little ones actively involved with the learning/assessing that takes place. Brown Bear Retelling Pack What’s Included: • Vocabulary cards to use in a pocket chart • Three levels of Essential Questions to use to assess comprehension and ‘wh’ questions • Sequencing activities to help learners retell the story, also available at multiple levels to help differentiate according to the level of your learner • Interactive Emergent Readers, available in three levels. Students can match colors, read color words, and write a word in the sentence. Pick the level that best fits the needs of your learners. • Class Book template with ideas included. • Color the Room activity with additional ideas included to make it a write the room for more advanced learning • Question cards with varying degree of difficulty to be used individually or as small or large group activities • Retelling cards/puppet pieces that can be attached to Popsicle sticks or hole punched/strung with yarn and worn as a necklace to actively engage young learners as they retell the story or hold up pieces while the story is read. Here is a quick peek of some of the activities. Sequencing sheets where the little learners cut and glue the pictures to retell the story. However, if you have some students that are not at that level yet, you can use this type of sheet instead. Little ones can find and color the picture according to the question asked. There are three levels of interactive readers to choose from. This allows for differentiation among students with the same type activity. There are also three levels of essential questions to assess comprehension of the story along with 'wh' questions. There are question cards that can be laminated and cut apart to use as individual, small or large group activities. The questions are asked with varying degrees of difficulty, which allows each child to be successful and challenged. There is a 'color the room' activity that can easily be made into a 'write the room' activity. These cards can also be used to play a memory type game. Vocabulary cards can be used in a pocket chart. Puppet Retelling Pieces allow for students to be actively involved during the reading of or the retelling of the story. A class book template is also included. I don't know about you, but any class book we make is quickly a favorite on our bookshelf. Little ones take ownership and pride in their work! I truly love seeing that while listening to them 'read'. The pack is on sale for $2.75. I hope you check it out and leave me some feedback of your thoughts! Click HERE or on the above picture to take you to my store. Thanks for reading! Have a great day. :)

Friday, we began our Brown Bear unit which correlates right along with our colors theme. I read the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do y...

Have a blast creating these easy-to-make presidential crafts with your kids this Presidents' Day!

Take a visual approach to math and patterns and use counting bears worksheets to teach numbers, colors, patterns, and more.

Here's another Pinterest inspired wall art!I created a silhouette of a grizzly bear. Due to it's size it had t

How to Make a Simple Bear Stuffed Animal: Make you very own stuffed bear, or any animal! Little sewing experience required, no sewing machine required.

Learning about Shadows and Reflections We talked a lot about how shadows move with the sun and how the location of the sun determines which way your shadow falls. This was a fun craft to help the kids to visually understand how the sun casts shadows. We used the projector to see the 'shadows' different objects make. We played a game too, I sent each kid to hunt for something in the classroom that was small enough to fit in their hand. I called them up one by one and they placed their object on the projector, the other kids had to guess what the object was! It was fun and some of the items were tricky!!! We have these cool bugs in our classroom, we brought them over to the projector to see what kinds of 'shadows' they would make, because they are clear the kids observed how you could see color....more like a reflection then a shadow! Exploring with different objects. Shadow puppets!! Each kid had a chance to make a shadow puppet on the wall. This is actually my hubby and my son at LACMA in Los Angeles but it was fitting since we were talking about shadows! I made these shadow games by taking objects and photocopying them onto a sheet of paper, then I glued the paper onto a file folder and laminated it. I taped a envelope on the inside to store the pieces. The kids take out the objects and match them to the correct 'shadow'! These are my favorite! Have you ever tried to trace the silhouette of 24... 3 and 4 year olds?!?! It's NOT easy!!! But this is!!! I simply set up the projector and put a chair in front of a white sheet of paper on the wall. I took my CAMERA and turned the flash off, then simply snapped the picture....TA-DA instant silhouettes minus the tracing and cutting!!!! We spent lots of time looking into mirrors and seeing our reflections! Talking about the differences between our shadows and our reflections! Questions to ask when talking about shadows and reflections! Can we see our shadow at night or in the shade? Why not? Do our shadows have colors? Do our reflections have colors? Why do our shadows get bigger and smaller? Why do our shadows move? We also took the kid outside and traced their shadows with chalk then we went out later and had them stand in the same spot.....their shadows moved!!!! We of course also played shadow tag! We also read the book Moon Bears Shadow. It was a GREAT week learning about Shadows and Reflections!!!

Your kids will love this fun counting bears roll and cover math game! There are several ways to play and a variety of math skills covered while playing!