adventures in story land: the three bears

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The Three Bears

Adventures in Storyland

Ages 3-5

Charlotte Mason Inspired Storybook Studies


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Welcome to Mini Unit Studies for Mini Hands. Inspired by Charlotte

Mason, these Mini Unit Studies for Mini Hands incorporates copywork,

narration, dictation, and nature study for children ages 3-5.

Written by: Richele McFarlin

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to my children who serve as an endless fountain of creativity, inspiration,challenges and sometimes exhaustion.

Thanks most of all to a loving God with an endless fountain of grace and mercy.

Copyright March 2010

All rights reserved. No portion of this unit study maybe used for mass printing or used system wide. Forindividual purposes ONLY. Reprinting of pagesgranted to purchaser ONLY.

Visit me at http://www.underthegoldenappletree.com

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Table of Contents

Copywork 1-4

Narration 5-7

Dictation 8-9

Letter B 10-12

Counting to 3 13-15

Nature Study 16

Craft 17-18


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Baby Bear

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Mama Bear

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Papa Bear

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Trace the number 3.

3 Bears eating from 3Bowls.

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Draw a picture from the story and retellthe scene to your teacher.

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Draw Goldilocks and tell your teacher how shebehaved in the story. Describe what she looks

like to your teacher.

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Active Narration

Act it out!

Use puppets, stuffed animals or other small toys to act out thestory from beginning to end.

Parent Tip

This is the time to allow your child to retell the story having funwith no pressure or correction. If your child is having difficultyretelling the story then jump in as a character and guide withoutretelling it back to the child.

Tell Daddy!

Have your child retell the story from beginning to end to a friendor relative.

Parent Tip

Allow the child the freedom to retell the story without correction.

Interview with Goldilocks

Have your child pretend to be a character from the story. Thenask questions pertaining to that characters point of view.

For instance, Goldilocks, how did you feel when you found threebears standing over you after waking up? or Baby Bear, whatdid you think when you saw your chair broken?.

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Dictation for Little People

Dictation is the process of a child writing down exactly what aparent is reading to him. While, a 3-5 year old will not be capa-ble of writing dictation for a paragraph or even a sentence inmany cases, he can still benefit from this exercise.

Letter by letter or simple word by simple word dictation is a toolallowing a child to apply his knowledge of the alphabet andphonics.

Dictation Plan

Day one:

Introduce your child to uppercase B and lowercase b. Havehim practice writing the letter from the activity pages in this unitstudy.

Provide him with a piece of writing paper appropriate for his age.Tell him to write down exactly what you say as you say it.

Now begin dictating:

Uppercase B.uppercase B.lowercase b...lowercase b.

This only takes a few minutes.

For more advanced or older children:

Dictate:Lowercase b.lowercase e...lowercase a..lowercase r...space.

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Then repeat a few times. Allow your child to see that he wrotethe word Bear!

Day two:

Practice dictating uppercase and lowercase B one more time.Then expand on this by using the first letter of your childsname.

Dictate as described on day one.

For advanced or older children:

Dictate the childs name in letters.

For instance:

Uppercase K.lowercase a.lowercase r.lowercasea...space...uppercase K...lowercase a...lowercaser...lowercase a.

Then you child will have successfully written her name!

Day three:

Practice the Day twos lesson briefly.

Continue using single letters for young students.

Try dictating some fun words from our story, for older students,such as bear, Goldilocks, three, Baby Bear, Papa Bear or MamaBear.

For advanced or older children:

Dictate, letter by letter, having your child space in betweenwords, a simple three word sentence. Your child will be so proudto have written a real sentence!

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Letter B is for

Bear

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Circle the objects that start with B.

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Mini B Book

By:_____________

BEAR

BANANA BEACH

BOOT

The End

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Practice Counting to 3

How many bears? Circle the correct

1 2 3


1 2 3


1 2 3

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Help the bear find 3 fish for lunch. Draw

a line from the fish to the bear.

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Add the bears.

+ =

1 + 1 = 2

Cut out the counting bears and practice adding

up to 3.

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Welcome to the Forest

What type of animals are found in the forest? Cross out the one that does not belong.

What type of birds fly in the forest? Cross out the one that does not belong.

What type of trees would you see in the forest? Cross out the one that does not belong.

Nature Study Journal Activity: Draw a picture of what you see outside your

window. What trees, animals and birds do you see?

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Coffee Ground Bear

Supplies:

Glue

Water

Coffee groundsPrintable on next page.

Construction paper

Instructions:

1. Cut out bear printable on next page. Glue to a piece of construction paper.

2. Water down glue to and apply to bear cut-out.3. Sprinkle coffee grounds to completely cover the bear. You may leave

room for the eyes or glue on google eyes if you wish.

4. Allow it to dry before displaying.

Craft Tips

Cut out the bear and mix the glue and water before beginning theactivity with your child.

Use a childs paint brush to apply glue/water mixture.

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