Martin Jr., B. (2004). Brown bear, Brown bear, what do you see?
New York, New York 10010: Henry Holt and Company. LCC.
ISBN: 3-3141 01148 4113
This story is about brown bear and the different animals. Where in each page we will meet animals that will help us to discover who will be the next animal we could meet. By meeting these animals along the way,brown bear and other animals might build new friendship.
The reason to choose this book for young children, especially the pre-reader, it's because children love to listen a short story,where they could easily comprehend the repetitive words that used in the book.
The colorful illustrations will make children drawn.It is printed on acid free paper with the oil pastel colors. The excitement of this for children while looking at the puictures is because the animals become stranger and stranger, like the blue horse.
To set the provocation,create puppets or picture of the animals which are part of the story and let them wonder about the color of the animals.
3 Ways of presenting this book
A.Felt Story- Make a felt board and felt cut out animals.
-Use wiggling eyes or any other accessories that you want for the pieces of the animals.
-for the easy cut out of the pictures, photocopy them the size that you want or size that would fit all the animals on your felt board.
-Trace the photocopy on felt and cut it.
-You can buy felt at any crafts store or for big sheet of felt you can buy at Dress and Sew.
B. Reading Story- You need book
- Let the children sit in a way that they feel comfortable;
- By flip-flopping the every page of the book, you can use variations of voice in different animals so that children will enjoy listening. Children will enjoy to hear funny voices that could capture their attention.
-Chunk or stop in every second page of the book, then ask the children who will be the next animal to meet by brown bear? What do you think will be the color of the next animal?
C. Story Basket- you need a basket big enough to put all the animals of the story.
-Cloth, to cover the contents of the basket.
-Putting out the characters while telling the story in a manner that the children will be amazed and interested in listening.
-Through asking questions and letting children give their answer, there is already involvement of the listeners.
Extensions:
A. Doing animal sounds:
Color the pictures, talk about each animal. What sound does the animal makes? Where the animal does live? Ask them have they seen the animal before?
B. Color Recognition:
Photocopy the animals' picutres in awhite sheet and give each child different colors of crayons. Let them color the animals based on the story. You can guide and help them to remember the color of each animal.
C. Make a puppet:
Out of the picture that they colored, let them cut and paste it on the piece of cardboard, get popsicle stick and glue it at the back of pre cut picture.
Have a play in which they will follow an instruction that the teacher will say.( ex: all the bears,please stand up, etc. )
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