Sleigh your way into festive learning with our Bear Stays Up for Christmas activities! With a variety of merry educational activities, this digital download is ideal for perking up little learners. Experience Bear’s friendly world through literacy and math designed to inspire joy and learning. You’ll love these Christmas activities to go along with the beloved Christmas tale.

The Bear Stays Up for Christmas activities foster a love of reading and writing. Students trace letters and words to learn letter shapes and improve their writing skills. Through sequencing and character traits identification, students also practice comprehension. In addition to building reading fluency, they match rhyme pairs as well.

Are you ready for a numerical adventure? Pattern recognition and creation are taught through the included quilt-making activity. Improve pattern recognition by counting up to 20, 50, and 100; identifying even and odd numbers; and skip-counting by 2s, 3s, and 9s. In addition to developing logical reasoning and problem-solving skills, these activities are fun and interactive ways to familiarize students with numerical sequences and properties.

As a result of the included activities, students will be able to:

• Design a quilt for Bear.
• Trace words.
• Sequence the story.
• Match rhyming pairs.
• Write character traits.
• Apply Writing Skills with included writing templates and prompts.
• Practice Reading Comprehension with included discussion questions for beginning, middle, and end of the book.
• Engage in Social Skills with included whole group prompts and activities.
• Develop Fine Motor Skills with included coloring, tracing, cutting, and gluing activities.
• Create a pattern using colors.
• Count up to 20, 50, and 100.
• Determine even and odd numbers.
• Skip count by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.
• Participate in a collaborative memory game. 
• Use digital tools to learn about hibernation. 
• Create a memory jar.

Get ready to see the holiday spirit, as well as your learning, shine bright like a star on the Christmas tree after unwrapping this delightful pack!

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About the Book

Bear's friends are determined to keep Bear awake for Christmas! So they wake Bear up and ask him to find a Christmas tree. They bake cakes, hang stockings, and sing Christmas songs. Bear stays up--by discovering that giving is one of the most meaningful Christmas presents of all! 

Do you need the book for your festive read-aloud? You can buy the book here!