The Monarch Award:
Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award
2006 Master List
Sponsored by the
Illinois School Library Media Association
2006 Nominee: Bear Snores On
On a cold winter night many animals gather to party in the cave of a sleeping bear, who then awakes and protests that he has missed the food and the fun
- Research: Bears, hibernation, caves
- Questions: Who else could be in the cave? What other animals hibernate?
- Compare: Fact and fiction books on bears
- Sing/read: Teddy bear picnic
- Sharing: Bring teddy bears, other animals in the story
- Hands on: Make stew/stone soup. build a cave
- Treats: Gummy bears
- Bear Wants More by Karma Wilson
- Bear Stays Up for
Christmas by Karma Wilson
- A Bed for the Winter by Karen Wallace
- What is Hibernation?
by John Crossingham and Bobbie Kalman
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears by various authors
- Stone Soup by various authors
- The Mitten by Jan Brett