Unit Plan: A Beary Good Beginning

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Children learn best by building upon things they know. With this in mind, students will use something familiar to them, bears, to learn classroom rules and procedures as well as to develop writing and counting skills.

OBJECTIVE
Students will:

1. Learn rules and procedures for the classroom and school.
   
2. Acquire the early literacy skills of identifying the parts of a book including the front and back cover, title, author, illustrator, as well as one- to-one correspondence and tracking.
   
3. Become familiar with an illustrated story through listening.
   
4. Learn their basic colors.
   
5. Count with gummy bears.

LESSONS FOR THIS UNIT
Lesson 1: Beary Necessary Rules
Lesson 2: Class Bear Book
Lesson 3: Counting With Bears

REPRODUCIBLES
Bear Counting Sheet (PDF)

CULMINATING ACTIVITY

Students will have a picnic celebrating what they’ve learned. They will bring their teddy bears to school and read the book, The Teddy Bear Picnic by Jimmy Kennedy.

SUPPORTING BOOKS

Books for Teaching With Bears

We Need Farms
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