Hibernation

With today's cold weather we are all feeling the need to hibernate.  To start the beginning of bear week the children found that our books and puzzles center turned into a bear cave.  In the bear cave their are teddy bears that are hibernating for the winter.  We have to use quiet vocies in the cave so we do not wake them up!  It is OK to snuggle with these bearsthough.  In the bear cave there are also bear games that the children can work on quietly.  They can use bear manipulatives to make patterns.  They can also use bear number mats to count bears.  There is even a matching game from the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Today I read the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears to the children.  During centers the children made a lunchbag look like a house.  They also colored the characters from the story and taped them onto popsicle sticks to make puppets.  We will use the props to retell the story using our own words tomorrow.