Welcome to Week Two of Storybook Summer!  The Book of the Week is Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?  This is a classic book that young children love.

The goal of Storybook Summer is to spend time reading with your children and engaging them in academic learning.  No matter what the age of your child, he or she will love spending time reading a book with you! The lesson plans posted here are very informal but will give you ideas of activities you can do with your children every day related to the weekly book theme. Don’t feel like you need to do everything on the lesson plan. Go ahead and make revisions, additions, and deletions. Visit your local library and check out the Book of the Week at the library to save money (just remember to return it on time). We encourage dialog!!!  If you have a great idea, let us know.  If you have ideas for upcoming Storybook Summer weeks, send us an email. Bloggers – Spread the word! Let’s get at least 20 people involved in Storybook Summer hosted each week on Coupons Are Great. Invite your friends

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Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?

This book is great for repetition and color.  Designate each day as a color day and dress everyone in the same color that day.  Let the color be the theme of your day!  Choose a different color each day of the week.  For yellow day you could eat Mac & Cheese and goldfish for lunch.  Color days are exciting and the ideas are endless.  Each day talk about the sounds that each animal makes.  Act the movements of each animal. Monday June 14th, 2010 Read: Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? Sing: Oh my gosh, Greg and Steve are a favorite around here.  They have an album that has Brown Bear on it!  Head here to listen.  I am going to try to find a place to buy and download the song.  Sample Greg and Steve at Amazon. Craft: Make stick puppets or bag puppets of the animals in the story.  It is best to do this craft at the beginning of the week so your children can use the puppets for pretend play the rest of the week.  You can find terrific printables here. Science: Make a notebook for your child.  Cut five pieces of paper in half and staple them together to form a ten page booklet.  On the cover draw or paste a photo of a brown bear.  Have older children write their name on the book.  Title it: Name’s Science Journal Tuesday June 14th, 2010 Read: Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? Include your stick puppets that you made yesterday while reading. Sing: Greg and Steve’s Brown Bear song Social Studies: Create a photo album or book of family member or friends with your children. This can be as simple as taping/gluing photos to white paper that is stapled together to as elaborate as buying a small photo album and adding photos to it.  Go through the book with you child as you say “Child’s Name, Child’s Name, what/who do you see?”  Encourage them to say “I see (Grandma) looking at me!” For older children draw a map with them and have them use photos to show where the person lives.  Talk about directions, miles, and left/right. Science: Take a nature walk.  Have children fill in one or two pages about what they SEE on their walk Wednesday June 15th, 2010 Read: Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? Include your stick puppets. Sing: Greg and Steve’s Brown Bear song Craft: Chocolate Pudding Painting (sounds yummy, doesn’t it?).  Print a photo of a brown bear.  Have your child finger paint it with some brown pudding.  Add some teddy grahams and you have a beary perfect dessert that night! Science:  Take another nature walk.  Have children fill in one or two pages about what the HEAR on their walk. Thursday June 16th, 2010 Read: Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? Include your stick puppets. Sing: Greg and Steve’s Brown Bear song Science: Create a color collage using different textures.  A white collage could be on white paper with a paper towel and a little wad of paper glued on.  A brown collage could include a stick or old leaf.  Use magazine photos as well. Friday June 17th, 2010 Read: Have your child read to you!  Encourage them to read/tell you the story Sing: Greg and Steve’s Brown Bear song Math: Count the stick puppets that your child made. Count all the animals in the book. Conclude the week by having the child draw a self portrait. Did you participate in Storybook Summer and blog about it? Leave your link below. If you don’t have a blog email us at admin @ couponsaregreat.net (remove the spaces) and include a picture or two and we will post on your behalf. Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Coupons Are Great is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program that allows associates to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to their website. Read my disclosure policy here.