So what can kids do for fun, other than watch TV or play video games? They can go for a walk or a drive with their parents. Those sometimes ordinary activities become a lot less boring when you turn them into a teddy bear hunt. That's what children are doing all over the world. They compete with each other to see how many teddy bears, rainbow pictures or other stuffed animals they can spot, and they keep count of their finds.  This is something you can do too! 
     All these things send the same message to children -- and adults -- in their neighborhoods. "We're here. We're all connected. We're all going to get through this together. Even if, for the moment, we have to stay far apart."  
     Today we're going to learn some new things about real bears and ask ourselves why it is that bears hibernate.   Hibernation is a deep sleep that happens to many animals during the cold winter months.  Hibernation?  A deep sleep?  That's unusual!  In science we say that anything that is unusual or difficult to understand or explain is called a phenomena.  Let's investigate this phenomena together!  Why do bears hibernate?  What do you think?