This book is a classic and is used all of the country to teach children colors. I had a lot of fun coming up with a few activities to use with this book. I wanted to use this book during our circle time when I had students together as a whole group. We read the book together and students absolutely loved it. After the first two pages they were trying to follow along with the repetitive verses. We read the books once and talked about the different colors they saw in the book. Some of my students were able to tell me the names of colors but others were not. I then brought out images from the book and the color word for students to match. We did this as a whole class. I held up word strip such as brown bear and had a student come up and find the brown bear.
The images that I used with students are actually wall decals that I found at Target. They are the same pictures from the book, which is perfect. When I found these I was ecstatic. I took each image and placed it on card stock, laminated them, and them placed magnets on the backs.
Another activity we did along with Brown Bear, Brown Bear was sentence strips. I found this idea on Pinterest and loved it. My students had fun completing the sentences along with me.
