There’s so much you can do with a bear unit … whether you’re focusing on mammals, types of bears, bears in literature, or animals in winter. Today, I’m sharing another resource for a bear unit … a free bear do-a-dot printable. It’s super easy to download and prepare.
Montessori-Inspired Printables at Living Montessori Now
My daughter, Chrissy Chitwood (a former Montessori child), and I are partnering to bring you a series of Montessori-inspired printables. The printables are typically themed and use a number of Montessori principles (although you don’t need to be a Montessori teacher or homeschooler to use them):
- They use isolation of quality.
- They use photographs or realistic images to emphasize reality. Whenever I can, I’ll tell you the specific name of the object or animal featured on the credits page.
- They typically use traditional Montessori colors such as red for consonants and blue for vowels.
- They use lowercase letters, which are what we introduce letter sounds with in Montessori education. (Children tend to pick up the uppercase letters without being introduced if they’re introduced to the lowercase letter sounds.)
- They often feature themed printable versions of Montessori materials.
Free Bear Do-a-Dot Printable for the Letter B
To download the bear do-a-dot printable, click here and then click on the file image in the upper right corner of the PDF to save to your computer (just choose where you want it saved).
Montessori-Inspired Activities Using the Bear Do-a-Dot Printable
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Bear Do-a-Dot Letter B Tray with Sugar Tong and Miniature Fish Beads
Bear Do-a-Dot Letter B Tray with Sugar Tong and Miniature Fish
I used a Multicraft tray with miniature fish beads (which we had from our previous penguin work) and sugar tong. I also added a Safari Ltd. brown bear for interest. You could have a transfer activity with other tools such as toast tong, quick sticks, or chopsticks. Or you could have a totally different type of do-a-dot activity. See ideas below. Just choose what is best for your child’s skill level and interests.
You could add a tracing activity to the printable. If you laminate your printable, you can use an erasable crayon like the Melissa & Doug Learning Mat Crayons or Crayola Erasable Crayons. If your page isn’t laminated, you could add a pencil or colored pencil. I often do that. For a 2-year-old or other young preschooler who’s not ready to write letters, you can just leave off the crayon or pencil.
Bear Do-a-Dot Letter B Tray with Sugar Tong and Miniature Fish Beads
Concentrating on Using a Sugar Tong to Transfer Miniature Fish to Letter B for Bear Do-a-Dot Page
Zoey enjoyed talking about bears eating fish and other foods bears like. She concentrated on adding all the fish to the dots.
Proud of Her Letter B for Bear Do-a-Dot Work
Zoey loves the fish beads (and loved using them previously in our number work with penguins). She was proud of how they looked after getting them transferred neatly to the letter b. Then she traced the dotted letters.
If you want to know how to introduce the letter sound for b, check out my post on how to teach letter sounds using Montessori principles.
More Bear and Animal Classification Resources for Preschoolers-Early Elementary
Polar Bear Growls Exercise for Kids {Free Printable} from Christina Chitwood
Free Polar Bear Do-a-Dot Printable (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)
Free Bear Printables and Montessori-Inspired Bear Activities
HELPFUL ANIMAL CLASSIFICATION POSTS
- Living and Non-Living
- Plant and Animal Sorting
- Montessori Animal Classification
- Free Zoo Printables and Montessori-Inspired Zoo Activities
- Montessori-Inspired Animal Units
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Free Do-a-Dot Printables and Ideas for Using Them
I love the versatility of do-a-dot printables! If you’re doing a month-long theme, you could easily change out the type of do-a-dot activity weekly to add interest. Here are four ideas of hands-on activities for any of our do-a-dot printables from my frog do-a-dot printable post (see post for details and materials used).
Just click on an image to go to the post with the related free printable!
Note: I’ve arranged the following gallery in alphabetical order, although some posts have two do-a-dot printables (and two different letters). Also, I don’t introduce letters in alphabetical order. You can find out the order in which I introduce letter sounds here. I deviate from that order for our unit studies, though, and focus on a letter that’s simply related to our unit. That’s in addition to our other letter work.
You can see all our free do-a-dot printables with the latest at the top here.
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