Brown Bear, Brown Bear

It's the first week of school and we have been reading lots of stories and practicing different classroom routines.  My students have been loving the story, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?.  Every time I read the story, the kids love to read aloud with me, they just can't help themselves!  We have also been learning how to do partner talks, and this is a difficult concept for my new kinders.  We do partner talks throughout the day, everyday, so it's really important that they master this routine.  I thought I could incorporate the story into a partner talk lesson, since they are so comfortable with the storyline.  We made puppets with the characters, then students took turns telling each part of the story.  I originally saw the puppets in action in Miss Kindergarten's classroom and just had to use it in my classroom!

I was so excited with how well they did!  They took turns with each character and the partner talk concept just came naturally with the taking-turns part, amazing!  The best thing was watching my spanish-speaking students, seriously, these kiddos do not know any English!  They were retelling the story to their partner and with so much confidence.  I was amazed and so excited!  You can download the puppet template here!