Bear Stays Up for Christmas, by Karma Wilson, is another great Bear story. Bear’s friends are going to make sure he stays awake for Christmas! They wake Bear up from hibernation and have him help them find a Christmas tree, bake cakes, hang up stockings, and sing Christmas songs. Bear stays up — by discovering that giving is one of the best Christmas presents!
What is included with the book write-up?
- Vocabulary list
- Questions for teaching inferencing skills to enhance comprehension
- Journal prompts
- Detailed activities that cover learning outcomes for Math, Language & Literacy, Science and Art
- Save hours of searching the internet for activity ideas
- Hands on activities with things you can find around the house
Learning Outcomes covered
- Children will develop an understanding of new vocabulary introduced in conversations, activities, stories or books
- Children will develop skills in listening for the purpose of comprehension
- Children will develop age appropriate writing skills
- Children will begin to develop age appropriate strategies that will assist in reading (retelling and alphabet knowledge)
- Children will begin to develop an understanding of numbers
- Children will learn how to use a variety of non-standard and standard means of measurement
- Children will sort and classify objects
- Children will acquire scientific knowledge related to physical science
- Children will explore and use a variety of materials to develop artistic expression
