Tot Book: Brown Bear, Brown Bear

Brown Bear, Brown Bear is such a classic book for teaching animal names and colors.  I found this as a board book at a book sale last summer.  I have read this over  and over to him in the last year.  So a few weeks ago I decided to do some teaching along with reading.  I chose to follow Tot School's idea for making a Tot Book.  So I gathered my materials and made 3 different activities: matching head and tails, shape/animal book and number cards.  I proceeded to read the book every day to my son during 5 days and incorporate some of the activities each day.

First we did matching.  Shrade mostly wanted to throw the cards around, but by day 5 I played an actual matching game with him.  He didn't take much to the number cards, but I let him play with them and talked about all the animal colors and pictures.

He really liked the shape/animal book and he even started pointing to the animals and shapes.  But what really astounded me is one day when I was reading the book , I almost skipped the last page because I get tired of reading all the animals (I know, I should read them) so I decided to see if Shrade could point to the different animals.  I said them in random order and he got 80% correct.  Now, that is his favorite page and he comes up to me holding it out so I can "quiz" him!  How fun!