Bears!
October 5-9, 2009
Letter of the Week: Bb
Number of the Month: 2
Shape of the Month: Triangle
Color of the Month: Blue
• At the sensory/art table, we have blue play-doh.
• At the paint easel, we have blue paint.
• On the practical life shelf, cutting food, locks puzzle, nuts and bolts, sticks in a shaker, pouring, tonging, and zip dressing vests.
• On the art shelf, we have a Bb color page, and then our free art supplies (paper, cardstock, construction paper, scissors, crayons, markers, pencils, tape, glue, stapler, and paper punch.)
• On the sensorial shelf, we have color tablets 1 and 2, the brown stair, block tower, and knobbed cylinder A and B and the red rods.
• On the geometry shelf, we have the circle and the triangle puzzle. There is also a geoboard, shape sorter, and geometric solids.
• On the letter shelf, we have sandpaper letters (lower case and upper case) alphabet cards, and leap frog letters. I’ve also added the Red Language materials (learning 3 letter words that start with r, a, m, f, b, i, t and g.)
• On the language shelf, there is classified cards on rooms in your house, calendar matching, and fall letter words. I also have the Bob books – Set A (easy reader books) on the shelf.
• On the writing shelf, we are working on the circle shape with the metal insets. We also have dry erase writing, letter stamping, letter tracing for B, magnadoodle, and moveable alphabet.
• On the science shelf, there is mammal puzzle – horse, plant puzzle – tree, and land and water cards.
• On the geography shelf, there are the continent globe and the sand and water globe and the continent map puzzle.
• On the math shelf, we have sandpaper numbers, number puzzle, number bears, bead matching, fraction puzzles, spindles, and seasonal counting activities.
• We are reading Corduroy and His Pocket, The Bear Party, The Little Fur Family, Blueberries for Sal, and Go Ask Mr. Bear.
Calendar work - new work on the shelf. One of the 4s is trying it for the first time.
The insets
Sticks in the shaker. This was the last week for this activity. It is a good introduction activity early in the year, and the 3s really enjoy it, but it is time for another activity.
Collage work - using fabric
Collage work - using fabric and tissue paper
