The Three Bears, The Three Snow Bears, & The Three Panda Bears

We spent last week with a new twist on an old favorite.   We read Jan Brett’s Three Snow Bears and coupled it with some regular old Three Bears activities. 

Front Cover (idea from Evan Moor Literature Pockets ~ Fairy Tales)

Back Cover (Elijah drew this as he watched Jan Brett’s video!  I was so proud of him!)

Here he is…proud as a peacock!

Inside of the first folder.  Here is a link to the free unit and lapbook for The Three Snow Bears.

First folder books open.   A few of the activities were coloring (finding Baffin Island on a map, coloring the Canadian Flag, etc.).   A few were cut/paste (Imaginary Lines, Polar Bear Diet, Do People Live in Igloos?, etc.). 

Many of the items in the second folder are from a portion of Evan-Moor’s Literature Pockets ~ Fairy Tales


The left side of the second folder.  The pocket contains Elijah’s Three Bears story.  It’s about three pandas who live in China and eat rice with chopsticks.  The girl who breaks in to their house is Guo Shuang, and the story has a very happy ending.  

Middle section of second folder.
Venn Diagram comparing the two versions we read. 
Goldilocks and the Three Bears mini book (from Evan Moor Book); Elijah read this story to me.
Peek-a-boo Book that Elijah was able to do all by himself! 

Close-up of the Peek-a-boo

 
Left side of the folder ~

A sequencing activity (also from Evan Moor) that Elijah was able to complete on his own!

A pocket for puppet storage.

A picture of the house and puppets (yes, they all really fit in that pocket).  Aren’t they cute?  He did a great job on these and had fun acting out the story.   (This was also from the Evan Moor Book.)

We’ll be learning even MORE about bears this week with a unit study on  The Valentine Bears by Eve Bunting.