Maryville City Schools
Preschool News
Weeks Sept 5-18
Book 1: Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?
Bill Martin
Core Vocabulary: Nouns: animal names, teacher, children
Verbs: see, looking
Prepositions: over, behind, in front, under, up, down
Concepts/Quadrant D: COLORS/PREDICT - Animal identification according to sound they make. Predicting
which animal will be next. Color identification and matching, shape identification and matching, counting,
categorizing, sequencing animals, first, next, last, rhythm, 5 senses, “wh” questions, big/little
Book 2: Panda Bear, Panda Bear What Do You See? Bill Martin
Core Vocabulary: Nouns: wild animal names
Verbs: soar, swing, swim, strut, splash, fly, sneak, see
Adjectives: wild, free
Concepts/Quadrant D: EVALUATE - Identifying rhyming words, animal habitats, similarities and differences
among animals. Phonemic Awareness: C “colors”
Color: Brown
Discovery Box: Brown items
Nursery Rhyme: Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear – adapted book and AAC symbols
Fingerplays/Songs:
WHEN I SAY…..
BROWN, move your hands all around,
Red, put your hands on your head,
YELLOW, wave to a fellow,
BLUE, put your hands on your shoe, GREEN, wipe your face clean,
PURPLE, make a little circle, WHITE, squeeze your fingers tight, BLACK, pat your back,
When ORANGE is found, make it big and round.
MIRROR, MIRROR, who do you see? I see ____________ looking at me.
Hold up an animal and say, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you say? I say ______ and that's OK!
Bear-growl Bird-tweet, tweet
Duck-quack, quack Horse-Neigh, Neigh
Frog-r ibbit, ribbit
Cat-meow, meow
Dog-bow,wow
Sheep-baa,baa
Fish-glubb,glubb
Teacher-Shh, Shh
Children-giggle, giggle
BROWN BEAR (sung to “Old McCDonald”)
Brown Bear is a very good book. E-I-E-I-O, and in the book there is a bear. E-I-E-I-O. With a growl, growl,
here and a growl, growl, there. Here a growl, there a growl, everywhere a growl, growl. Brown Bear is a very
good book. E-I-E-I-O, and in this book there is a _________(use animals above)