Lesson Plan: Bear Hunt (6/7)​

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Applying What You Have Learned

On the following pages are lesson plans that can be used to integrate Building Community Through Circle Time in your program planning. The lesson plans are intended to be an optional resource that you may adapt for use in your classroom.  The worksheets at the bottom of each lesson plan are part of the required coursework (not optional).

Please read each lesson plan carefully and then answer the question at the bottom of the page.

Lesson Plan: Bear Hunt 

Age Group: 

• Preschool

* This lesson plan can be adapted for toddlers.

Objectives:

• Children will work as a group to complete a community art project. 

CDA Competency Standard:  
III.9.3a
Candidate promotes children’s sense of belonging in the classroom community.
a)      Encourages children’s social interactions 

Materials: 

• Large poster paper
• Different paint colors   

Procedure: 

1. Sing the "Going on a Bear Hunt" song with your group.
2. With bare feet, stepping in one color of paint and walking the full length of the butcher paper. Should be at least 6 feet long. The child can pick one color. For those who do not want to get their feet painted you can use flip flops, which make a fun foot print.
3. After it drys put it up on the wall, put each child’s name by their footprint, and a picture if you have it.
4. Then read Going on a Bear Hunt, and have the children make the elements of the bear hunt throughout the week and put them on the poster paper. Elements such as bears, grass, a hill, cave, river, etc. They can make up their own things that they might see such as birds, trees, frogs in the water, etc.   

Assessment: 

• After creating the Bear Hunt project ask the children how making this journey would be different if they were walking the bear hunt alone? Point out how all the feet were going in the same direction, together as a bear hunt community. Ask the children to retell the art process and explain how it would be different if they were not completing it as a group.  

Extension:

• Dramatic play extension: Set up a dramatic play area with flashlights, safari hats, walking sticks, etc. 

Going on a Bear Hunt Song Lyrics

This is assignment 6 of 7.

Worksheet

Building Community Through Circle Time *  Check for Understanding * Page 17 (6/7)

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