Title:  Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Grade Level:  Kindergarten

Subjects:  Language Arts and Math

Learner Outcomes:

• The students will become familiar with the fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears as they have the story read aloud to them and discussed.
• The students will understand the importance of not going into a strangers house through the discussion of Goldilocks actions and reading of this fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
• The students will compare Goldilocks and the Three Bears with the knowledge they have of real bears using a Venn Diagram.  
• The students will create masks or stick puppets to retell the story in their own words using their prior knowledge and experience with the story for a classroom production.
• The students will create patterns, sort, and complete simple addition/subtraction story problems using teddybear counters.

Duration of Lesson:  Language Arts  90 minutes  and Math  30 minutes

Materials:  Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Venn diagram, masks, stick puppets, teddybear counters, Addition and Subtraction Fun Worksheet, Answer Sheet
 
Technology Tools:  Microsoft Powerpoint, multimedia computer, projection device, digital camera, video camera

Teacher Notes:

• As you read the story an appropriate voice needs to be used for each character (examples: use a deep, loud voice for Papa Bear, use a moderate, middle sized voice for Mama Bear, and use a squeaky, soft voice for Baby Bear, and a child's voice for Goldilocks).
• There are tutorial links on how to use Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Word, and Venn diagrams.
• The digital camera can be used to capture still photos of the children working together to construct patterns or during the class production with their masks or puppets.
• The students will enjoy watching their classroom production of themselves acting out this fairy tale on video while serving popcorn as a special snack.
• If a computer and projector device is unavailable to you some other options for the activity would be to display responses using an overhead projector, chalkboard, or chart paper.
• Gummi Bears or Teddy Grahams can be used instead of the plastic teddybear counters.
  

Procedures:  

Language Arts:

1. To begin this lesson discuss what the students know about bears and use Microsoft Word on the computer to project their responses on the screen as they dictate them orally to the class.
2. Go to the internet site to hear the real sounds of a bear.
3. Introduce the fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears to students by showing the cover of the book and doing a walk through of the pictures with the students as they predict what they think may take place in the story.
4. Read the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears aloud to the students using the appropriate voices throughout the story.
5. After reading the story, discuss with the students who the characters were, where the story takes place, and the main idea of the story.  
6. Pose several questions to the students to answer orally or with a partner as to whether they think it was safe for Goldilocks to enter the Bears house when she did not know them.  Relate this discussion back to the students to make a personal connection as to staying safe in strange places and talking with strangers. (For example:  Was it safe for her to enter?  How would you feel if you came home and someone had been in your house using your, bed, favorite chair, and eating your food?)  Share these aloud with the whole group.
7. Ask the students whether they think this story is real or pretend.  To help students grasp this concept ask them such questions as do bears really talk?  Do they live in a house?  Do they sleep in beds?  Do they sit in chairs?  Do they eat porridge?  
8. Make a Venn Diagram with the students on the overhead projector or computer generated site to compare how real bears and pretend bears are alike and different and discuss these findings.
9. Have the students to make a mask or stick puppets to use in retelling the fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears on their own.
10. Allow all the students a turn to participate being a character from the fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears as you remind them what it means to be good speakers and listeners.

Math:

1. Have students grouped in pairs or work individually.
2. Give the students some teddybear counters to manipulate and have them to sort them by color.
3. Have the students to design their own patterns using the teddybear counters.
4. Have each group or individual share with the class the pattern they used.
5. Using the teddybear counters have the students as a whole group perform the simple addition/subtraction story problems for practice.
6. Follow-up with ,seat work having the students to complete the Addition and Subtraction Fun worksheet on their own using the teddybear counters as manipulatives.  (Answer sheet available)

Modifications:

• Special needs students need to follow any indicated modifications on the IEP.
• The students can work individually or with a partner for all activities.

Enrichment Activities:
Language Arts:

• Have the students to discuss and draw a picture of what happened after Goldilocks left the Bears house.
• Discuss what the Bears did after Goldilocks left their house and follow-up by reading Beware of the Bears by Alan MacDonald.
• Record the students voices retelling the story on a cassette tape and use it in the listening center.

Math:

• Students can graph their findings of the teddybear counters by color.
• Do a whole class graph using the teddybear counters by colors.
• Have students to generate their own story problems to use with the teddybear counters for adding/subtracting.

State Standards:
Language Arts:  RLA.K.1.7, RLA.K.1.8, RLA.K.1.9, RLA.K.1.10, RLA.K.1.12, RLA.K.2.2, RLA.K.2.3, RLA.K.3.1

Mathematics:  MA.K.1.1, MA.K.1.8, MA.K.1.9, MA.K.1.10, MA.K.2.1, MA.K.2.2, MA.K.5.1, MA.K.5.2, MA.K.5.3

National Standards:
Language Arts:  

5.Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process
5. Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of literary texts
5. Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes
5. Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media

Mathematics:  

5. Uses a variety of strategies in the problem-solving process
2. Understands and applies basic and advanced properties of the concepts of numbers
5. Uses basic and advanced procedures while performing the processes of computation
6. Understands and applies basic and advanced concepts of statistics and data analysis
8. Understands and applies basic and advanced properties of functions and algebra

References:

Additional Resources:  Here Comes the Bears , Bears featuring lots and lots more books, activities, and lesson plans dealing with the theme of bears.


Jennifer Smith
J.E. Robins Elementary

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