All Aboard: Creating an Inclusive Classroom

3 Clock Hours of Early Childhood Education

Lesson Plan: Bear Hunt

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Bear Hunt

Age Group: 

• Preschool 

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. Like 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.

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

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