Preschool Wake Up Music
Hibernation
Downloadable Personalized Music Album This album features 12 upbeat, fun and educational songs including a bonus Happy Birthday song, and uses the child’s name over 80 times! Songs include Wake Up!, It’s Time To Play, That’s Your Name, No Rainy Day Blues, At The Zoo, When You Grow Up, The Counting Song, Everybody Say Happy Birthday,. Music & Songs: Teddy Bears. Wake up now, Teddy bear, teddy bear, Take a bow. Three bears with a beat added 2-22-98 Original Author Unknown. (do actions with the teddy bears to suit) Pick your teddy bear up from the ground, Then go dancing all around.
Fingerplays/Songs
Bear is Sleeping
tune: Frere Jacques
Bear is sleeping. Bear is sleeping
Let it snow! Let it snow!
Sleeping all the winter, sleeping all the winter
Snug and warm, snug and warm.
Hibernation Song
tune: Frere Jacques
Bear is sleeping, Bear is sleeping.
In a cave, In a cave.
I wonder when he'll come out,
I wonder when he'll come out.
In the spring, In the spring.
Video
Bears
Hibernation Celebration
This is a special celebration at the conclusion of a unit on hibernation. The children make bear caves from grocery bags which are painted and decorated. We use cotton balls on top for snow. The children and teachers wear their pajamas and bring their favorite teddy bear to school. When they arrive we put the bears in their caves and place them around the room.
In addition, we make 'Bear Biscuits' using two refrigerator biscuits. One for the face and the second one to form nose and ears. Add raisins for the eyes and a maraschino cherry for the nose. When the biscuits are baked we sit together around the room with our bears and caves to partake of our special treat.
Contributed by: Jo Hamilton
Stain Glass Bear
Need: Contact Paper, Tissue Paper, Googly Eyes
Give the children the contact paper cut out as a bear. Have the children tear and place on the contact paper shape different colors of tissue paper Hang the children's creations in the window for a beautiful stained glass look.
Art
The Bears Are Still Awake - Hibernation Craft at AllMostUnschoolers
Book
Sequencing cards for Bears Snores On
Video
Group Time
Musical Hibernation Game
Need: Tape/cd player lively music carpet tiles or mats
Describe the concept to the children that some animals sleep all winter. Bring out the mats or carpet tiles; one for each child. Explain to the children that while the music is playing the animals(them) are dancing. When the music stops it is winter time and it time to find a spot to sleep. As the days go on and the children know more animals. You can ask them what animal they are when they sleep. Contributed By: Vanessa S.
Hibernation Game ( who woke the sleepy bear!)
Need: Group of children, 5 or more ,the more children the harder the game gets!
Directions: Have all the children sit in a circle. One child will sit in the middle and pretend to sleep all curled up like a bear hibernating. Make sure their eyes stay closed!
Pick a child and have them sneak up and touch the bear then quickly return to their spot in the circle. Then everyone in the circle says WAKE UP SLEEPY BEAR! WAKE UP! and the child will then sit up and have to guess who woke them up. Let them guess 3 times. You can vary the game by letting them ask 3 questions such as was it a boy do they have on a red
shirt ex. Contributed by: Lindsay
Story & Craft
Animals in Winter Craft at Fun4Kids
Templates (resize): cave, log, and tree.
Preschool Wake Up Music Raffi
Learning Centers
Hibernation Time
Have a container that can be used for a cave. A gallon ice cream tub covered in brown paper works well. Lay the tub on its side. On the first day of winter, put a small stuffed bear into the tub and place a sign on it, Sleeping! Do not disturb until spring. On the first day of spring have a Teddy Bear Party, and bring the bear out of the tub.
Preschool Wake Up Music Kids Bop
Ipc bare act. Make A Hibernation Sensory Bag to Explore Animals in Winter at School Time Snippets
Wake Up Music For Kids
Recommended Book
Doubleday Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 978-1524768966
I Don't Want to Go to Sleep
by Dev Petty
A funny, and fun book to read. Frog learns about the wonders of winter from his friend pig. He is eager to experience the fun of winter. Owl explains that it is impossible as frogs hibernate in the winter. Frog wants to stay awake and enjoy the delights of winter but the other animals remind him he is a frog and frogs hibernate. Silliness abounds, with science slipped in this story seamlessly. Young children will enjoy the frivolity and repetition with bold and expressive illustrations.
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