Bears

Bears was the theme of the week and we had a lot of fun going on bear hunts, reading about Corduroy and Pandas, finger-painting bears, and playing a bear toss game. We started out the week by reading Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? During centers we played a Brown Bear Bingo game. The students did a great job with matching the animals I called out. The students also got to make a cave for our beanie baby bears using blocks. On Tuesday we read the book Corduroy and painted a picture of him. The students did an excellent job painting and staying in the lines! I had them paint with toothbrushes to give their Corduroy a textured look. 

Heres a close up to see how great they did staying in the lines!

Another center we had was the bear toss. I set up the mini bean bag toss I had from my wedding and told the students it was a cave and that they had to toss the beanie baby bears into the cave. They really enjoyed this and were pretty good at it!

On Wednesday we read A Pocket for Corduroy and I had the students sew a pocket of their own. 

On Thursday we read Where's My Teddy? and played Hey Eddie Where's Your Teddy? after reading it. I sent one child out of the room and the rest of us decided where to hide the teddy bear. I then had them come back in and we gave them hot and cold hints until they found the teddy bear. Each student had a turn trying to find the bear, they loved this! During centers we did a gummy bear sort. 

On Friday we read Old Bear and Pandas. The first was a fiction book and the next was a nonfiction book. After reading, we did a bear sort and sorted real bears and fictional bears. 

During centers we did some finger-painting, with pudding! This was so fun and the kids just loved it because they could lick their fingers when they were done! They did a good job staying in the lines again!

We had a fun week and learned a lot! 

Earlier this week we had just gone outside when I looked over and saw this excellent Kodak moment! Tyeler was hanging out on the monkey bars with his pal George the monkey! Haha!

Since it was raining on Friday we decided to have a movie day all together during nap time!