Winter Animals: Polar Bears!

This week the theme was polar bears! We learned all about winter animals in Antartica, what they eat, and how they stay warm. Polar bears have blubber and soft fur which keeps them warm! Our sensory bins this week were filled with fun activities. We went ice fishing in Antartica with Billy the Bear. Our fishies and fishing pole were magnetic which made it extra fun! The fishies had words written on them and we were able to match the fish by thinking of the beginning and ending sounds. We are becoming such fantastic readers. Our letters of the week were B, E, and S. We played the "word detective" song and found things in the classroom that began with the B, E, and S sounds. We even brought things in from home to add to our bin. Our art activities included more animal puppets for Antartica, igloo paintings, and polar bears. Miss Kate brought pretend ice chunks and snowballs for our Antartica center, and we were able to build igloos and dens for the animals. The background of Antartica was decorated with an ocean mural we painted together. Our poem of the week was

Polar Bear Polar Bear,
Turn around!
Polar Bear Polar Bear,
Touch the ground!
Polar Bear Polar Bear,
Growl real loud!
Polar Bear Polar Bear,
Sit right down!

Don't forget to sign out our classroom books that we are making! Check out our new one: "Polar Bear Polar Bear What Do You Hear?" Next week the letter of the week is W. Please bring in items that begin with W for our sensory bin.

Ice fishing with Billy Bear

Building an igloo and playing with Antartica animal puppets

Wow! Look at our fantastic artwork!

Our letters of the week!

We read polar bear stories and wrote about what we learned

Igloo sponge painting

Matching!

We made a "Polar Bear Polar Bear What Do You Hear?" class book. These are two pages from our book. Come and check out the rest!

Winter Animals: Penguins and Seals

This week the theme was Winter Animals: Penguins and Seals. Students enjoyed playing in our corner of the room that we transformed into Antartica, filled with igloos and penguin and polar bear puppets they created! We learned about animals that hibernate and what they need to stay warm. We even made a class book of winter animals. Our art activities included handprint penguin art and seal puppets. Our letter of the week was E, and we enjoyed using shaving cream in trays to practice writing our letters. Our poem of the week was about penguins. We loved hopping around like penguins and learning how penguins take care of their eggs.

I'm a little penguin
Living on the ice
I think the winter
Is very nice!
I can hop around.
First once,
Then twice!

Writing about how winter animals stay warm while hibernating

There was a penguin in the surprise box!

Practicing our e's and drawing Easter eggs

Shelley the tourtise has a fun snowy day!

We worked together to think of the sounds while writing what the bear needed while hibernating

Making penguin puppets

Playing with puppets in Antartica! It's cold in there!

Painting a seal

E is the letter of the week!

Picture/word matching

Winter Wear!

This week the theme was winter wear! We learned about the four seasons and all the clothes we need to wear to stay warm in winter. Miss Kate and friends brought in snow from outside to put in our sensory bin. We put on our mittens and made snow castles, snowmen, and snow stars. We practiced being word detectives to match pictures and words, and find things in the room that start with the letter B, which was our letter of the week. We made picture graphs, decorated a winter bear, and created class books.
Our poem of the week was:

I have mittens on my hands,
On my hands.
The mittens
 Keep my hands
Nice and warm.
I love my mittens
On my hands!
(Each day students substituted the clothing and body part with hat/head, jacket/body, boots/feet, and scarf/neck.)

Picture graph of the colors of mittens we wear!

The sensory bin is filled with snow!

Painting our class bear

Working together to make a creative snowman. We kept him safe from the sun by building a tent around him in the North Pole.

Our winter bear!

Our poem of the week, our character Sally, and picture graphs!

Our Sally puppets are dressed warmly

Bubble wrap B!

Making a storm with shaving cream and paint

Illustrating our winter wear class book

Working hard during journal time

Making snowflakes!

B is for Bear!

Our creative snowman and snowflakes

Matching pictures to words by thinking of the sounds

Our four seasons paintings

Ice and Snow!

This week our theme was Ice, Snowflakes, and Snow! We learned all about the winter weather and shared our five senses of a snowfall. We are becoming excellent word detectives too! We are using the clues found in pictures and the beginning sounds of words to read! We became poets this week and wrote a class poem entitled "Snowfall." We used our imaginations to pretend we were snowflakes and shared where we would travel. We made our own class snowman out of balloons and glittery tissue paper. Our snowman's name is Bobby the Snowman. He has googly eyes, a bananna nose, cookies for buttons, a scarf to keep him warm, and a tophat with candy canes! He is at the front of Doodlebugs with all his snowmen friends, so don't forget to check him out!

Using our imagination to design a snowman

Our favorite things to do in the snow

Playing in our sensory bin-full of pretend snow!

We wrote our own New Years Resolutions!

Colors of winter

The letter of the week was S! We were word detectives and searched around the room to find things that start with S sound.

Our handprints are on snowflakes!

We were word detectives during our word/picture matching games!