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Children will explore the winter adaptations of different animals.

Vocabulary: garras, hibernación, pezuñas

Science Focus: animal adaptations

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• A fun book for children. When Oso goes into hibernation, all the animals in the forest stop by his lair to take shelter, brew tea, and chat.
• What will happen when Oso wakes up?

• Play the game Duck, Duck, Goose— but with a hibernation twist! Have children sit in a circle. Choose one child to be the “explorador.” The rest of the children will be "osos."
• Have the bears curl up and pretend to sleep. Then have the explorer walk around the circle, tapping each bear on the head and either saying “hiberna” or “despierta.”
• When the explorer taps a bear and says “despierta,” that bear jumps up, growls, and chases the nature explorer back to their spot. The child who played the woken-up bear gets to be the next "explorador"!

• Work together to find and circle each h in the issue.

Skill: art, oral language

Materials: brown paper bags, scissors, construction paper, glue, cotton balls

• To create a bear cave, lay a paper bag flat on the table so the folded bottom is facing up. Cut the bag off about an inch above the folded bottom.
• Next, unfold the bag and cut a U-shaped opening on one side. Place the bag so that one side rests flat on the table and the side with the U-shaped opening rests at an angle.
• Glue cotton ball “snow” to the outside of the cave. Cut construction paper “leaves” and put them on the inside.
• When the cave is complete, kids can use a small stuffed bear or even counting bears as props to tell hibernation stories!