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Explore World Geography with Bill Martin Jr and Eric Carle: Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear?

February 26, 2015 by Jennifer Fischer

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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? written by Bill Martin Jr. and illustrated by Eric Carle has been a favorite of my boys (Caterpillar – 3, Wild Thing – 5) for years, so I knew they would love Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? (Brown Bear and Friends) from Martin and Carle — and they do!

It quickly became their new Bill Martin Jr. favorite (they also love Chicka Chicka Boom Boom). We’ve read it over and over, and it is a perfect book for Wild Thing, who is an emerging reader. At first, he immediately read it as “What do you see?” but I encouraged him to look at the letters, and he discovered for himself that in this book it is “What do you hear?” I’ve loved watching he and his brother read this book together.

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We love reading books, but we also love extending books through creative activities. We received a new wall map of the world for Christmas from my mother, we decided to do a world geography activity to go with the book. The boys and I looked up where each animal in the book lives so that we could put those animals on our maps. We gathered up our Ranger Rick Jr. magazines and cut out pictures of the various animals we needed, which was great scissor practice for Caterpillar.

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Wild Thing got to do some drawing (great for his early writing skills and for pencil grip practice). We couldn’t find a peacock in any of our magazines, so he drew his own.

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Our wall map is a laminated map, so we could tape our animals to the map with no worry of damaging it, and the boys loved exploring the map and helping to put the animals on it.

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They were very proud of the map when they were done — so proud that Wild Thing wanted to take the final picture of the map himself, and I think he did a good job!

MappingPolarBearBookWhat are your favorite ways to explore geography and maps with your kids? Which books do you use to learn about the world? We’d love to know!

 

 

 

 

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Jennifer Fischer

Jennifer is a mom of two, as well as an independent filmmaker who has taught filmmaking to youth, most notably with her Spotlight On Hope Film Camp, a free film camp for Pediatric Cancer patients. She writes about her experiences with her sons, Wild Thing (5) and Caterpillar (3), at The Good Long Road with an emphasis on mindfulness, imagination, and creative activities related to the boys' favorite children’s books.

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Filed Under: Books for Children, Children's Activities, Crafts, Education, World Geography Tagged With: animal books, educational activities, geography activities, geography for kids, map activities, multicultural children's books, multicultural crafts, picture books

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  1. Catherine says

    March 10, 2015 at 2:27 am

    What a fabulous idea for a follow up activity! We’re huge fans of Brown Bear, Brown Bear and Polar Bear, Polar Bear – am pinning this 🙂

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