Brown Bear

Today the children, yes the children, read the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?  I began circle time by reading the story to the children.  We then used puppets to retell the story.  During center time the children were each given a copy of the story and we read it together.  I then gave them a whisper phone(an item that looks like an antique phone from the 1990's).  The children whispered in their phone and read the story independently.  We then played a bear letter game.  Each bear had a letter on it so we said, "J bear, J bear, who do you see?"  The children would look at their neighbors bear and identify the letter on it and say, "I see F bear looking at me."

The children also visited the listening center today.  Here they listened to the story Panda Bear, Panda Bear What Do You See?  At another center the children made a page for a class book.  On their page they wrote their name and a friends name to fill in the sentence ___, ___, who do you see?  I see ____ looking at me.  To complete their page the children drew a self portrait.  I assembled the book, read it to the children, and placed it in our classroom library.  The children love to read books that they helped create.