stART- Goldilocks and The Three Bears

A Story + Art = A great stART!

For this week's story we read Goldilocks and The Three Bears by Jan Brett. This is a great adaptation of the story. We love the colorful illustrations that Ms. Brett always has in her books... and Ryleigh has many of them as her favorites....


For our "art" this week... I had the girls do shape Bears...(we are doing "Bb" this week...and I love to do creative reviews of shapes with them)... The girls did an excellent job of listening to the story (it is on the longer side)... and a great job listening to directions when asked to find certain shapes and then put them together in order...Dawn...reading the story...she did a great job with the voices and kept the girls attention...

Ryleigh inspecting all the different shapes on her tray...

Attaching the ears to the bear...

The finished (teddy) Bear...

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stART- The Three Snow Bearss

A Story + Art = A great stART!!!

For this week's stART project we read Jan Brett's The Three Snow Bears. It is a cute adaptation of Goldilocks and The Three Bears. We did a collage/sequencing/painting activity for it.

First I had Ryleigh sequence the three bowls, three boots and three beds. Then we glued them on and finished the activity by doing cork prints to represent "snow".... Although MY artwork isn't the greatest (for the bowls, boots and bed) I think the project came out well and Ryleigh had fun retelling the story as we did the collage.

Ryleigh listening to Daddy Read the Story

Ryleigh putting the items in sequence order....

Ryleigh making cork paint prints to represent the snow...she was quick to identify them as circles :)

The finished project

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stART- The Mitten

A Story + Art = a great stART

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For our project this week, we read The Mitten by Jan Brett. I found on her website a fun project to go along with the story. Coloring in all the animals from the story and putting them inside a mitten that we cut out and glued together. (We are starting small with our stART projects, but I hope to get more creative as time goes on!!!!)








Here is Ryleigh's tray with this week's "art" supplies.









Ryleigh coloring in her animals













Ryleigh playing with her animals after I cut them out for her












Putting them in the mitten that she glued together- she really liked the final product!!!












Braeden was enthralled by not only the story but by the project itself!!!!!