Mrs. Drake's Classroom

Brown Bear, Brown Bear

We graphed whether or not we liked bears.	We colored (as many as we wanted) and then sequenced the animals.
We used the flannel board to retell the story	This is a discovery bottle filled with rice and small icons from the story. The child shakes the bottle to find all the characters in the story.
File Folder Shadow game used for visual discrimination	Brown bear patterning.
Matching numbers to number of dots.
Following the art work at the beginning of the book we tore construction paper into strips then glued them in chronological order. Perfect for retelling the story at home to family and friends.	We sequenced the first two animals of the story: bear, bird, bear, bird etc.
Choral Reading: Read as a class and recorded. This is now their favorite tape to listen to. They love to listen and try to hear their voice.
Class Book: We use this popular book as our model to make our own version. Each child has their own page with Mrs. Drake's as the last. We titled it "Mouse, Mouse Who Do You See?" So far the children are still laughing quite hard at my picture. LOL	We graphed our favorite animal
"B" poster: We talked a lot about the letter B and the /b/ sound. We then looked through magazines and cut out pictures that start with the /b/ sound then glued them on a big bear "B" poster.	Next - Names

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