Celebrate Mother’s Day and explore family themes with our Mother Bruce activities designed to enhance literacy and science skills. These engaging and creative activities are tailored to the story of Bruce, a grumpy bear who unexpectedly becomes a mother to a brood of geese.

Students can express their creativity by designing a tacky shirt for Bruce or illustrating scenes from the book. They’ll explore the narrative by sequencing events, identifying problems and solutions, and discussing character traits. The activities also include writing an original recipe for Bruce, comparing and contrasting bears and birds, and exploring migration.

The set also focuses on social and fine motor skills through group prompts and hands-on activities like coloring and cutting. A collaborative movement game and digital tools to practice cardinal directions make learning interactive and fun. This comprehensive activity pack is perfect for engaging students in a heartwarming tale while developing critical thinking and empathy.

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

• Design a tacky shirt for Bruce.
• Illustrate scenes from the story.
• Complete sentence starters.
• Write sentences with story vocabulary.
• Sequence the story.
• Determine the story’s problem/solution and cause/effect.
• List character traits of the characters.
• Write a new recipe for Bruce.
• Define story vocabulary.
• Compare and contrast bears and birds.
• Read and write about migration.
• Writing Skills: writing templates and prompts included
• Reading Comprehension: discussion questions included for beginning, middle, and end of the book
• Social Skills: whole group prompts and activities included
• Fine Motor Skills: coloring, tracing, cutting, and gluing included
• Digital Tools to practice cardinal directions.

These activities are perfect for whole-group fun, individual exploration at stations, or tailored student choices. They’re ideal for mixing it up and targeting specific learning objectives with a dose of grumpy bear humor.

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About the Book

Bruce the bear likes to keep to himself. That, and eat eggs. But when his hard-boiled goose eggs turn out to be real, live goslings, he starts to lose his appetite. And even worse, the goslings are convinced he's their mother. Bruce tries to get the geese to go south, but he can't seem to rid himself of his new companions. What's a bear to do?

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