Teddy Bear Picnic

Hi!

We had a terrific teddy bear day today! The children were so happy to bring their teddy bears to school. We had extra bears for children who didn’t have their bears! Our bears helped take the attendance to the office first thing!

The day started in typical fashion: Morning songs, Morning message and introductions to everyone’s bear. We made beautiful bear hats this morning. This is one of the first times we did a “whole-group” craft where everyone was working on the same task. I was very impressed with how independent the children worked: they coloured the bear, cut it out and glued it on their own. I am so thrilled to see their fine motor skills developing so well! They looked so cute in their hats too! Tracy’s mom was with us and I think she would agree how well the children worked this morning!

The children enjoyed reading to their bears once they were finished their bear hats, take a look!

The children introduced their bears to Madame Scarfo! She incorporated some fun bear songs into her program, teaching the children how to say bear in French…ask your child how to say bear en Francais!!:)

Other highlights of our day were having quiet time and Calendar with our bears! Did you know our bears can count all the way to 30 and they know their days of the week??

We did a really fun math activity where we sorted the bears. The children decided to sort the bears first by size and then we sorted them by colour. It was a very hands-on learning experience. We then recorded our findings on a class graph. Each child coloured a small bear picture the same colour as their bear. We then glued each bear onto our graph and talked about which colour of bears we had the most of, least of etc.

Gym class was “beary” fun…we played “Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear turn around” and “Fuzzy, Fuzzy Bear”…The children loved this version of “duck duck goose”.

Our day ended with our picnic. Poor children, had to wait all day but it was just the way our schedule went today on Day 4.

We had orange juice, teddy grahams and cheesy bear paw crackers (thanks Gracie!) on the carpet on Katherine’s big blanket! Thanks for letting us use your “Winnie the Pooh” blanket Katherine! We enjoyed our picnic with our bears. One of our students said, “My bear doesn’t like the teddy grahams so I HAVE to eat them all” hahaha!

A great day and I think the children had a lot of fun too!

Thanks for reading,

Ms. Jo-Anne 🙂

 

….and now onto December and Gingerbread man stories!!! 🙂