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Meet Karma Wilson
Brief Bio

  

Guest Reader Thank you Letter (MS Word)

  

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Bear Feels Sick Songs

4 sing-a-longs – age appropriate

  

Bear’s Snack Time Activity

The children will learn how healthy foods keep them healthy and help them to feel better when they are sick. 

   

Cover that Sneeze Please!

The child will learn that in order to stop the spread of germs, he or she must cover their nose (better yet, sneeze into their sleeve).

 

Get Well Soon Craft

Children will learn sympathy skills and ways they can help others in need.

 

Glitter Germs! Activity

Children will learn how germs are passed from one person to another.

 

Help Bear Feel Better Activity

The children will learn empathy skills as they practice taking care of someone else.

 

Preschool Doctors Activity

Children will feel more comfortable going to the doctor by learning about the equipment used

 

Stethoscope Craft

Have the children put their hands over their hearts and ask them what they feel.  Ask them how doctors check their hearts.  Show the children a real stethoscope and let a volunteer listen to your heart.  (Be sure to sanitize the ear pieces before and after the child listens)

 

Websites for more ideas:

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Health:

Under the Weather Theme: www.geocities.com/mystorytime/sick.htm

 

My Body printable coloring mini-book www.dltk-teach.com/minibooks/body

 

Kansas’ Did you Wash ‘Em? Website www.kdheks.gov/wash_em/index.html

 

Kansas Health Foundation: www.kansashealth.org/work/areas/childsHealth.html

 

Body and Mind Program from the Center for Disease Control www.bam.gov

 

FDA kid’s page: www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/kids/default.htm

 

Kidshealth website from the Nemours Foundation: kidshealth.org/kid

 

Bear Feels Sick:

Karma Wilson’s website: www.bearsnoreson.com

 

Karma Wilson’s blog: http://karmawilson.com/goodkarma

 

Bear Feels Sick printables: www.bearsnoreson.com/teachers.htm#bearsick

 

Bears:

Preschool Bear thematic units www.atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/Bears

 

Circle bear craft: www.first-school.ws/t/craft/bearcd_headc.htm

 

Badger coloring page: www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/badger/Badgerprintout.shtml

 

Raven printout: www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/printouts/Crowprintout.shtml

 

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If you liked Bear Feels Sick, then you’ll enjoy:
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Wash Your Hands! Written by Tony Ross

La Jolla, CA: Kane/Miller Book Publishers 2000

The little Princess is told by all her family and staff that she must wash her hands after playing outside, using the potty, and playing with pets before she can eat a piece of cake.

 

Growing Vegetable Soup written and illustrated by Lois Ehlert

Harpers Ferry, WV: Voyager Books, 1990

Healthy eating is central while children learn their vegetables in this colorful book.

 

Farm flu written by Teresa Bateman; illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott. 
Morton Grove, Ill.: Albert Whitman, 2001. 
When the farm animals seem to catch the flu one after another, a young boy does his best to take care of them.

Madeline written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans. 
New York: Viking Press, 1960, 1939. 
Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the twelve little charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an attack of appendicitis.

Mother Mother I Feel Sick, Send for the Doctor, Quick Quick Quick by Remy Charlip & Burton Supree; with pictures by Remy Charlip. 
Berkeley: Tricycle Press, 2001. 
An extraordinary stomachache is cured when a doctor removes a large number of strange objects from the victim's stomach. Includes instructions for performing the story as a shadow play.

The Get Well Soon Book: Good Wishes for Bad Times by Kes Gray & Mary McQuillan. 
Brookfield, CT : The Millbrook Press, 2000. 
Cynthia the centipede, Harold the hamster, Tiffany the turtle, and other animals suffer from various injuries or illnesses.

One Cow Coughs: A Counting Book for the Sick and Miserable. Story by Christine Loomis; pictures by Pat Dypold. 
New York: Ticknor & Fields Books for Young Readers, 1994. 
Animals count from one to ten and back down again as they show symptoms of illness and then, after taking care of themselves, feel better again. 

Dear Daisy, Get Well Soon by Maggie Smith. 
New York: Crown Publishers, 2000. 
When his friend Daisy gets sick, Peter sends her more gifts each day of the week until she feels better.

The Sick-in-Bed Birthday by Linda Wagner Tyler; illustrated by Susan Davis. 
New York: Viking Kestrel, 1988. 
When the nurse sends Tucky Pig home from school on the day of his birthday party, he is convinced that this will be the worst birthday he's ever had.

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