Polar Bears!

This week our theme was polar bears.  We made a super cute polar bear project that required LOTS of cutting and several of the pieces were pretty small.  The kids did an AMAZING job with the cutting!  They didn't complain and most of them were almost completely independent!  An Occupational Therapist was visiting in our classroom while we were working and she was very impressed with their cutting skills...and so was I!  All of our practice is definitely paying off!  

The next day we assembled the polar bear.  For the afternoon class, we showed them a sample of what the finished bear should look like and let them glue it independently.  Then, they used a marker to add eyes, any other details they wanted, and write their name.  

With the morning class, we showed them the sample and then Mary and I went around and placed a few pieces at a time on their paper and gave them some guidance on where each piece went, but let them have final say.  

See, aren't they super cute?!  

The afternoon class also had time to make polar bears out of cotton balls and a paper plate.

I think these turned out pretty cute, too!  They all have such personality!

During circle time, we read Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? and then used Unifix cubes to measure the animals in the story.  They are really starting to understand this concept and loved getting to measure the different animals.

My friend, Ms. Suzanne, had the great idea to put polar bear paw prints on the floor into our classroom that were life-sized.  Each paw print also had a fact about polar bears on them.  The kids loved stomping in on them each day!

On Thursday we walked on each paw print and talked about the fact on each print and then looked at how big a polar bear's foot is compared to our feet.  

We ended the week celebrating this cutie's birthday with some yummy Birthday Cake flavored Oreo's!

We also celebrated our Cadet Teacher's birthday!  

And, this handsome fella got glasses this week, so to celebrate Ms. Mary and I wore our glasses that day, too!  

In other news, our letter for the week was "M" and didn't this cutie do an awesome job writing one independently?!

And, last but not least, a few weeks ago I told you about the penguins that we made, well I finally remembered to take a picture of the finished product!  To see the post about this project, click here. 

Have a great week!

Thanks for stopping by!

~Beth