Teddy Bear Picnic

To end "Tt" week, we had a teddy bear picnic.  We read the book, Teddy Bear Picnic and learned that only teddy bears can go to a teddy bear picnic, so we dressed up in disguise by making and wearing teddy bear headbands.  Then, we carried our teddies and went to the picnic.  Each child received a brown bag of bear food (teddy grahams, honeycomb cereal, goldfish crackers, and gummy bears) thanks to all of our sweet parents.  Once we got outside, we sorted our snacks.  Then, the best part, we go to eat it!  What a fun way to end the week!  

 a finished sorted plate

 the boys

 the girls

A cereal sandwich

T is for Teddy Bear

Learning about the letter Tt was so much fun!  We did some fun activities with teddy bears this week.  Our comprehension skill in reading this week was classify and categorize, so we practiced by categorizing our bears in different ways.  I asked the boys and girls how we could do this.  The first way mentioned was to categorize them by "bears" and "not bears".  Second, we categorized them by "brown" and "not brown".  They did a great job!  We lined up our bears  by size...shortest to longest.  Finally, we constructed the letter "T" with our teddies.  I let the children do this entirely by themselves.  They had to practice teamwork to get it done.  And, they were awesome at it!