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This K-3 unit is designed to be used after the students have read Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and while they are reading other Eric Carle books. The Internet activities are designed to be completed over several days by small groups of children. (Younger children will need assistance with some reading using adult volunteers or older students.) For a culminating whole-class activity, students collaboratively write and illustrate a Eric Carle-type story and will act it out using self-created masks.
Have each student select a picture and color the animal a crazy color! Print out your pictures to make your own book. Students can then dictate their own story by using their animals and following the rhyming pattern of Bill Martin Jr. For younger children, a template can be used and children can fill in the blanks with the names and colors of their animals.
Have the students go to Eric Carle's website and look at the covers of his other books. Each child will write (or dictate) a letter on the computer to Eric Carle about which is their favorite book and why. Children can then sign his guest book and e-mail the letter to Eric Carle.
Each child needs to select an animal and color that they want to represent with a mask. Have students go to the Hands-On: Animal Masks website to print out a mask pattern. Students can add details and color to create their own unusually colored animal. Children can then act out their new Eric Carle-type story using the masks.
