CHALLENGING WORDS

boa constrictor
braying
elephant
flamingo
hippopotamus
leopard
roaring
snarling
trumpeting
zebra

SUMMARY

Zoo animals from polar bear to walrus make their distinctive sounds for each other, while children imitate the sounds for the zookeeper.
--- Conversation Questions---
(1) /

Retell the story in your own words.

(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Name your favorite animal sound.
(2) / Imagine why the boa constrictor is hissing.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Tell some different kinds of snakes.
(3) / Guess why the zookeeper is whistling.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Describe what a zookeeper does.
(4) / Suppose you were making animal sounds, which sound would you make?
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Tell where that animal might live.
(5) / Define roaring.
(Answer) / To make a loud fierce noise.
(Follow Up) / Name some animals that roar.
(6) / Look for which animal the polar bear heard.
(Answer) / A lion.
(Follow Up) / Describe to me a lion.
(7) / Search for which animal was snorting.
(Answer) / A hippopotamus.
(Follow Up) / What is the other animal that looked like a hippo.
(8) / Hunt for the flamingo and tell what color it is.
(Answer) / Pink.
(Follow Up) / What is you favorite color?
(9) / Another animal yelped, which one was it?
(Answer) / A peacock.
(Follow Up) / Tell me something special about a peacock.
(10) / List all the animals in this book.
(Answer) / Polar bear, lion, hippo, flamingo, zebra, boa constrictor, elephant, leopard, peacock, and walrus.
(Follow Up) / Share with me your favorite animal.
Activities
1. / Draw your favorite animal and write a sentence about why that is your favorite.
2. / Draw a zoo with animals in it. Label each thing that you draw.
3. / List each animal and the sound it makes.
4. / N/A
Introductions
1. / Bring in a tape with animal sounds on it. Have the children identify each sound. Our story today will tell us the many sounds that come from animals. Let’s read and see which is our favorite.
2. / Have the children make some animal sounds. Ask them what they think the book is about. Our story will tell us the many sounds that come from animals. Let’s read and see which is our favorite.
3. / Show the children a stuffed bear and ask them if they know where this animal lives. What other animals might live there? Today in our story the polar bear hears many other animals. Let’s read and see what he hears.

Book: Polar Bear Polar Bear What Do You Hear

Author: Eric Carle / Illustrator: Eric Carle
ISBN: 0-8050-1759-3 / # of Text Pages: 24 AR: 2.1 LEX: AD720
Building Oral Vocabulary
2 / roaring / 6 / fluting / 8 / braying
Prediction Questions
8 / What do you think the zebra will hear?
16 / What do you think the peacock will hear?
22 / What do you think the children will hear?

This resource is made available by THE LEARNING CORPS-Barren County School system, an AmeriCorps program, funded in part by the Kentucky Commission on Community and Volunteer Service and the Corporation for National and Community Service.