Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See Lesson Plan

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? is one of our favorite books.  The boys love the predictable rhymes and the easy flow of the story.  Eric Carle said that he wrote it while on a train, and it is easy to see that inspiration in the flow of the words.                               

Before Reading: Show the child the cover of the book.  Ask them to think of what things the Brown Bear might see.

During Reading: When you come to the page with the blue horse, ask the child if they have ever seen a blue horse.  Do they think blue horses are real or make believe?

After Reading: Ask the child if they remember what animals the bear saw.

Reading:

Practice reading with this fun emergent reader based on Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?

Learn about shapes and colors with this emergent reader, Red Square, Red Square, what do you see?

Practice color word recognition with this worksheet

Art:

Make a brown bear project with this template

Math:

Solve the word problem with this Brown Bear Addition worksheet.

Watch this video of Eric Carle reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

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