Brown Bear, Brown Bear

What fun we had at story time!

We started today learning how to speak “moo”. Now I am sure you think you already know and could easily converse with a cow, but there are dozens of variations to your ordinary ‘moo’. There is high moo and low moo. There is wiggly moo made when standing on jell-o. There is the bouncing moo made from a trampoline. There is even a smooth moo made when rowing across a calm lake or pond. The children easily understood and demonstrated each variation. I believe they are now fluent in cowspeak!

We also read about a brown bear and all the other animals and people he saw. After finishing the story, we recited it again, finding the flannel board characters as each was mentioned. This is a great story for practicing colors, animal names and sounds, and ordering events.

Finally, we came to one of my favorite stories. There are three mischievous cats just looking for someone nice who would like to play. We were all willing to jump into the story…we had a pillow fight, played in empty boxes, tried to catch fish, got soaking wet and blew on the pages to dry the poor kitties. (The illustration after that is priceless!)

We ended with a nice song about barnyard animals, many of whom we had visited earlier.

Below are the stories and the song. We will be returning to the barnyard song, so feel free to practice at home.

See you next week for Thanksgiving stories and songs. Don’t forget to sign up for holiday story time for December.

 

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle

 How to Speak Moo! By Deborah Fajerman

There are Cats in This Book by Viviane Schwartz

Over in the barnyard
Early in the morning,
See the yellow chickies
Standing in a row.
See the busy farmer
Giving them breakfast.
Cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep.
Off they go.

Continue with: brown and white cows, wooly white sheep, little piglets, big horses,…