Montana Grizzlies

We are currently studying the state of Montana for our Fifty States Project.  The state animal of Montana is the grizzly bear.  I read the book Moon in Bear's Eyes by Stephen R. Swinburne to C and R this week.  The book describes a day in the life of a grizzly bear family in Yellowstone's high country.  There are a few pages of grizzly bear facts at the end of the book.  C and R both enjoyed the story and the illustrations.  R is a little young for this book, but the fact that the book features a mother grizzly and her two cubs was enough to keep R interested.  It also helped that we brought this book with us to the doctor and read it while we were waiting for C's annual physical.  I had a captive audience.

C and R colored grizzly bear coloring sheets.  C glued his bear to a craft stick to make a puppet.  I cut out R's bear and she glued it onto dark construction paper.  We learned that grizzly bears are mostly nocturnal, so R made a nighttime scene for her bear by sticking some star stickers on the top of the page.  They also learned that grizzly bears are omnivores, so R drew some plants, berries, and animals on the paper.   Here is R's finished Montana grizzly:

The red circles are apples, the green squiggles are plants and grass, and the brown thing is a squirrel for her bear to eat!

I am linking this to What My Child is Reading at Mouse Grows, Mouse Learns.