Our story today taught us a lot of new facts about polar bears. See if your child can tell you something new he/she learned about polar bears today. Did you know that polar bears eat seals, fish, sea weed, and even birds?! We also learned that polar bear fur is designed to help camouflage them. Ask your child to tell you what "camouflage" means.
We learned a new song called "Polar," which is similar to the song "Bingo" and allowed us to continue to work on letter identification.
Then we visited centers. Your child will visit one center each day this week. Ask your child which center he/she visited today.
The first center did some polar bear fishing. Each child was given a fishing pole and a polar bear. The children's job was to catch their assigned color fish to feed to the polar bear. Each color fish worked on a different literacy skill. Some fish worked on uppercase letter identification, others worked on lowercase letters, and yet other fish worked on beginning sounds. The children recorded the letters or beginning sounds they caught on a recording sheet. Each child was also given some fish to take home so he/she can practice these important literacy skills at home while feeding his/her own polar bear!
The second center worked on number identification while playing a polar bear roll the number race game. Each child was given a sheet and die programmed with numbers that each child needs to work on. Some children did lower numbers, others did teen numbers, and yet others did numbers in their twenties. The goal was to help the polar bear cub get to its mom. It was a race to see which number polar bear made it to its mom first. When your child brings his/her game home, take some time to review the numbers on your child's sheet together.
The third center played an iceberg jump board game. This game worked on the social skill of taking turns, as well as identifying letters and numbers. The goal was to get the polar bear to the last iceberg. Each child drew a card and identified the letter. If the letter was correctly identified, the child could move the number of spaces marked in the corner of the card. More difficult letters to identify were rewarded with higher numbers.
The fourth center reinforced the concept of camouflage that we learned about at our opening circle, as well as to further develop our fine motor skills to help us strengthen our muscles for writing. We cut out a polar bear cub and glued it on blue construction paper. Then we had to tear white pieces of paper and glue them around our polar bear cub to help camouflage it from the ice foxes. Did you know that ice foxes like to eat polar bear cubs? We learned that from our story today! See if you can see our polar bears. Did we do a good job of camouflaging them?
After centers, we played! There was real snow in our sensory table. We had a great time putting on our mittens and playing in the cold snow! Sorry that there are not a lot of playtime pictures, but Miss McCabe was busy assessing during this time!
At closing circle, we learned all about our new letter Jj. We met our new feely phonic friend - jewel j. Everyone practiced making the /j/ sound as we traced over jewel j. Then we made our own jewel Jj's for our alphabet books by gluing sequins onto the letter Jj.
Please remember that book orders are due tomorrow! Each order will help our classroom to get free books and learning materials!
Have a great evening!
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