Most of my Kindergarten teaching centers around themes. I find themes, besides being familiar and fun, provide us with many opportunities for learning. Last week was all about Bears. Using bears, we practiced colors, directional words, patterns and counting.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Bill Martin Jr. started the week. We sequenced the characters in the book using magnet pieces. We cut and colored our own pieces and placed them in a bag to keep so we could retell the story at home.
We had fun chanting
the story frame using the students' names. "Mary, Mary, who do you
see?" "I see Johnny looking at me."
Using circles, we learned how to draw a bear. Drawing builds confidence while improving fine motor muscles.
We learned our first nursery rhyme of the year - Fuzzy Wuzzy. Go here to watch a cute Fuzzy Wuzzy video with your child. This video is from the Between the Lions television series.
Using circles, we learned how to draw a bear. Drawing builds confidence while improving fine motor muscles.
We learned our first nursery rhyme of the year - Fuzzy Wuzzy. Go here to watch a cute Fuzzy Wuzzy video with your child. This video is from the Between the Lions television series.
We have a poem every week. On Friday, the class uses the poem to complete word work (highlight all the letter B's, find the rhyming words, illustrate the poem, etc.) The poems are kept in a Poem Book so that at the end of the year, the students will have a collection of our Kindergarten poems to keep.
Our color word for the month of September is brown. We listed things that are brown and learned a song that helps us spell the word.
The first letter to come to class was the letter B. Bubba Bear brought the letter. We worked very hard all week to identify words that started with a B sound. We practiced writing both the capital and small letters. When forming our letters, we always start at the top and "dive down".
Our color word for the month of September is brown. We listed things that are brown and learned a song that helps us spell the word.
The first letter to come to class was the letter B. Bubba Bear brought the letter. We worked very hard all week to identify words that started with a B sound. We practiced writing both the capital and small letters. When forming our letters, we always start at the top and "dive down".
We made Bubba Bear out of a capital B. We made another bear using B items - buttons, beans and bows.
A Kindergarten standard is to distinguish fact from fiction. We used the bears to help us with this standard. Discussing the differences from real bears and story book bears was quite interesting. Our class participated in a Family Project to find three facts about bears, write them down using a source at home and return our findings to school.
We learned the "by heart" word, see. We wrote in our writing journals, "I see a bear."
In Math, we used our bear manipulatives to practice sorting, counting and positional words.
Next week, we continue with the bear theme. We will read Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Corduroy, A Hunting We will Go and The Teddy Bear's Picnic. We will finish up this very fun unit with a Teddy Bear Picnic on Friday afternoon. The students need to bring their Teddy Bears to school that day.
