Black Bears

To help all students get ready to write their Vermont Animal Research Report, your children have been working as a class on an interactive whole group study of the black bear. Today, students tuned into new vocabulary words - characteristic, habitat, diet, protection, survival, and facts to help them determine important information while listening to an informational text on the black bear.  Students had to distinguish important from unimportant information in order to identify key ideas about these particular topics.  Students also worked diligently utilizing text features to help them distinguish these important facts.  After listening to a text all about black bears, students worked in small groups, reading aloud from a variety of books about the black bear. Students took turns reading aloud, discussing new information, and adding facts to our class web. I was so impressed with the cooperation students used during this activity. INQUIRE with your child what interesting fact they learned about the black bear that resides in Vermont!