These activities will keep your children entertained for hours. It will give you a chance to catch up on emails or play a game or two of something like Foxy Bingo (www.foxybingo.com). Not only will your child find them fun but they are an excellent way to practice word use, spelling and their concentration.

Samples of the activities found in the worksheets

Activity 1
Activity will have students complete a word find puzzle. Show the brown bear family near the body copy for the page. Place the words to be found in the word find puzzle in a word box near the puzzle. In the puzzle circle the word BROWN.

The brown bear family lives in Honey Hollow. They welcome bears from all over the world to their home. The bears come to Honey Hollow because their homes have been destroyed. The first one is done for you. Find the name of each bear in the puzzle and circle it. The names go across and top to bottom. The first one is done for you.

Bears to Find

Brown
Black
Spectacled
Panda
Polar
 
Activity 2

The bears pictured here live with the brown bear family in Honey Hollow. Can you name the bears? Read the clues for each one. Then match each bear to its name. Write the number in the blank by the correct name.
 
1. I'm a good swimmer.
My fur is the color of snow.
I have extra fur between my paws
 ___black
2. I am big with dark fur.
I like to climb trees.
I sleep all winter.
 ___panda
3. My body has black fur.
I have yellow or white fur around
my face.
I live high in the mountains.
 ___ polar
4. I have white and black fur.
I am big and move slowly.
I live in some zoos in the United States
 ___ spectacled