Dear Parents,
We started our week writing down things we know about bears. The children said: bears are scary, you don’t want to go near a bear, they can swim in a river, they like honey, and they hibernate.
We read Teddy Bears 1 - 10, We’re Going On A Bear Hunt, and Amazing Bears. We compared the illustrations and photos of bears to figure out which bears were real and which were pretend. The children noted that the pretend bears were riding in a bus.
We ate honey with apples and pretzels for snacks.
We used brown and black paint, and stamps to make tracks on brown paper. We made deer, horse, frog, dog, and bird footprints.
We’ve been reading bunches of non-fiction books about grizzly bears, bats, lambs, chipmunks, pigs, squirrels, polar bears, and hibernation.
On Wednesday, while half the class tumbled with Casey in the big room, the other half cut paper shapes with scissors. We drew triangles, circles, squares, hearts, stars, zigzags, and wavy lines. It was challenging but many children were focussed, and cut up a storm.
On Friday, we took turns playing with dirt in a big bin. The children reminded us that we were supposed to make mud so we added water!
Have a Muddy Waters weekend,
Therese