We're Going on a Bear Hunt | Book Activities and Craftivity for Kindergarten and First Grade

WE'RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT

We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen is a classic book and a favorite story in Kindergarten and First Grade classrooms! Because it can be chanted with students keeping the beat, it makes it even more fun to join the characters in the story on their quest to find a bear! This book study unit is packed with literacy companion activities and a craft to go with We're Going on a Bear Hunt, and will help students in Kindergarten and First Grade develop essential literacy and reading comprehension skills!

WE'RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

We're Going on a Bear Hunt is a great book to teach story sequence. Students love following the characters as they face different challenges on their hunt for a bear! 

The book is also great for experiencing words that make sounds-

when the characters wade through the mud they squelch squerch, when they cross a river they splash splosh, and when they walk through the long wavy grass they swishy swashy.

The story is also great for students to act out as it's being read! They can wave their arms from side to side as they walk through the long, wavy grass. They can tiptoe through the cave. They can shiver through the swirling, whirling snowstorm.

This book study unit is packed with fun activities that will help your Kindergarten and First Grade students with story elements, making predictions, character traits, making text to self connections, author's purpose, main idea, making inferences, vocabulary, writing, giving opinions and advice, problem and solution, story retell, reading comprehension, and much more!

These activities can be used for whole class learning, during small group guided reading time, as individual student work, or as part of a book club. Copy a pack for each student and you're ready to go!

This Bear Hunt book companion will save you tons of planning time, is no prep, and is great to leave for a sub!

Want to make sure you are hitting the reading standards for Kindergarten or First Grade? This resource includes ELA standards charts for Common Core, TEKS and VA SOL, showing you exactly which skills your students are learning while doing these activities!

WE'RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT CRAFT

This craftivity has students draw and write about going on a bear hunt! This is a great follow-up activity after reading the book, and the craft makes a fun bulletin board display to showcase student learning.

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