Berenstain Bears Go to School - Back to School - First Day of School Read Aloud - Bedtime Stories
Berenstain Bears Go to School, by Stan and Jan Berenstain, is an engaging kid's book read aloud for preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school ages (and adults still young at heart), for the back to school/first day of school season.
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Transcript
00:30Stan and Jan Berenstain.
00:35When summertime ends and the weather turns cool, most little bears are ready for school.
00:43It had been a wonderful summer for the bear family.
00:46They had gone swimming and boating at the lake.
00:49They had picnicked in the woods and taken many walks along sunny paths.
00:55But now summer was just about over.
00:58There was a nip in the air, the birds were beginning to fly south, and the leaves on
01:02the tree house were changing colors.
01:09One evening at supper, Brother Bear said,
01:11I'm getting tired of summer vacation.
01:14I think I'm ready to go back to school.
01:17That is good news, said Papa Bear, because school will be starting again very soon.
01:24Sister Bear's ears perked up at the word school.
01:27Mama Bear noticed.
01:29As a matter of fact, she said, Sister and I are going to meet her new teacher tomorrow.
01:35This year Sister would be starting kindergarten, and she wasn't quite sure how she felt about
01:40it.
01:44She liked being at home with her mother and father, her books and toys, and all her friends.
01:51What will school be like, Mama? she asked at bedtime.
01:55We'll find out tomorrow, said Mama, as she tucked Sister in and kissed her good night.
02:03The next day, Mama and Sister packed a lunch and took the long walk down the winding dirt
02:09road to the Bear Country School.
02:12Handy Bear Gus was up on a ladder fixing the roof.
02:15Hello, said Mama.
02:17This is Sister Bear.
02:19She starts kindergarten next week.
02:21We'll be glad to have her, said Gus.
02:24Miss Honey Bear is a kindergarten teacher.
02:26You'll find her inside.
02:31Hello there, said Miss Honey Bear in a loud, jolly voice.
02:36Come right in and look around.
02:38Sister thought Miss Honey Bear's voice was a little scary, but she let Miss Honey Bear
02:43take her hand and lead her into the kindergarten room.
02:47What a big, friendly room!
02:49It had yellow curtains and tables and chairs that looked just right for someone Sister's
02:54size.
02:59What do you do in kindergarten? Sister asks as they sat down for lunch.
03:04We read stories, sing songs, learn our ABCs, paint pictures, play games, make things out
03:11of clay, build with blocks.
03:13We do lots of things, said Miss Honey Bear.
03:17Blocks were all things Sister liked to do, and she had never seen such big jars of paint
03:23or such fine blocks.
03:25There was even a whole barrel of clay.
03:28School must be fun after all, thought Sister by the time she and Mama started home.
03:36But when the big morning came, Sister began to worry again.
03:40Mama, she said, what if I don't like school?
03:44What if I just don't like it?
03:48Just then, a big yellow school bus pulled up to the treehouse.
03:51Oh, stop worrying, said Brother Bear.
03:55School is fun.
03:56You'll like it.
03:57Now let's get going or we'll miss the bus.
04:00He grabbed her hand and away they went.
04:06Every so often, the bus stopped and more bears climbed on.
04:10Most of them were excited like Brother, but some of the smaller ones were quiet like Sister.
04:16As more and more old friends climbed on, they got noisier and noisier, and the smaller ones
04:22got quieter.
04:24The little bear who sat next to Sister began to look worried, so she smiled at him and
04:29held his hand.
04:35At last the bus arrived.
04:37The bear country school looked very nice.
04:40Honey Bear Gus had fixed the roof and painted the trim and cut the grass.
04:44And Miss Honey Bear's kindergarten room looked beautiful.
04:48Everything was ready.
04:53Before very long, the kindergartners got noisy.
04:57Two of them wanted to play with the same dump truck.
05:00Two others wanted to look at the same book.
05:03And a whole gang of them wanted to be the first to play with the blocks.
05:07What a commotion!
05:10Suddenly, a loud, jolly voice called out,
05:13Storytime!
05:14Miss Honey Bear was calling the class to the book corner.
05:18That quieted things down.
05:24After the story, Sister tried everything.
05:27She painted a picture and helped build a block city.
05:32She made a giant clay doughnut and looked at the books.
05:36She ate all of her bread and honey at snack time.
05:40And she fell asleep at nap time.
05:47When she climbed off the bus with Brother at the end of the day, Sister was the excited
05:52one.
05:53Mama!
05:54Papa!
05:55Look what I did in school today, she said, holding up her painting.
06:02A few days later, the weather turned warm again, as it sometimes does in early fall.
06:08Brother was restless at breakfast.
06:11I wish it was still summer vacation, he said, so I wouldn't have to go to school today.
06:16Oh, come on, Brother Bear, said Sister.
06:20School is fun.
06:21Let's get going or we'll miss the bus.
06:28On the bus, all the bears were talking about the things they were going to do at school.
06:32Soccer practice, science projects, music lessons, all kinds of things.
06:38Hmm, thought Brother.
06:41Sister Bear was right.
06:42School is fun.
06:48And off they went in the big yellow bus to the bear country school.