Read the story of the Three Bears to students. Tell students to notice when they hear opposites in the story. One porridge is hot while another is cold.
Use a pocket chart or felt board to have students help retell the story with prepared pictures and sentence fragments. Have pictures of the different sized bowls of porridge, chairs and beds for students to use in telling the story and see the spatial differences between big, medium and little.
Read the book "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" by Eric Carle to students. Ask students to pay attention to the colors.
Have students create a color journal. Ask them to pay attention to the colors of items around them and note the colors in their journals. Give them space for every color in the book: blue, green, red, black, white, yellow, purple and gold. Instruct students to write or draw other things they see that are the same color. They can look around the classroom for ideas for their journals or take them home as homework.
Hide a teddy bear in the classroom while the children are out for recess or specials. Hide two or more to extend the fun. Place clues to help the students find the bear. Cut bear paw shapes out of brown construction paper and tape them to the floor laying a path to the hidden teddy bear. An alternative is to set a path of clues for the kindergartners to solve to find the next clue and finally, the hidden teddy bear.
Teach the children the "Going on a Bear Hunt" song to sing while they search for the hidden teddy bear.
Arrange students in small groups at tables with a small bowl of Teddy Graham crackers, graph paper and colored pencils or markers. Ask children to count how many bears have one hand up in the air, how many have two hands up and how many have both hands down. Create line graphs with the results. Preparing illustrated sheets with pictures of bears and large blocks for creating the graphs makes this activity easier for kindergartners.
An alternative to this lesson is to graph gummy bears. Give each child a cupful of gummy bears. Ask them to sort them into piles by color, then count how many are in each pile. Graph the results.