Old bear falls asleep as the snow starts falling at the beginning of winter. He begins to dream about himself as a young bear. In his dream he experiences all four seasons. The seasons in his dream all have their own imaginative spin on them, for example, in summer the sun was a daisy, the leaves were butterflies and it rained blue berries. Old bear wakes up thinking he took just a small nap, only to find out the whole winter season had gone by!
I love this book because all of the imagination in it. I have a huge imagination and enjoy thinking of different possibilities for ordinary things such as the seasons. How awesome would it be if the sun was a daisy?!
I think this book is great for the class room because kids enjoys using their imagination as well and hearing of cool things like it raining blueberries. I think a great lesson plan to follow it up would be to divide the class into groups and assign each group a season. The groups could work together to paint, draw, or write a story describing their season and add a little imagination to it.
