Week Eleven

Choosing Time: Big Brick Blocks, Babies, Baby Animals...







Theme: Thanksgiving
We are enjoying sharing those things which we are grateful for. We love singing songs and doing finger-plays that involve turkeys, Pilgrims, & Indians.

Letter: B
We have enjoyed "B"! We Bobby Bear who introduced us to some Buck B Words such as Bus, Blue, Black, Brown, Bear, Bee, & Bed. Our "B" Show & Tell included items such as Barbie, Books, Bee Back-pack, Beach Ball, Bears, Boys, Babies, Bionicle, Bike....

Snacks:

• Banana Bread & Oranges
• Cheese Nips & Hershey Nuggets
• Bananas, Fruit Snacks, & Pretzels
• Pilgrim Hat Brownies
• Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins & Fruit Leather
• Pirate Booty & Graham Crackers
• Turkey Cookies

Books:

• The Berenstain "B" Book by Stan & Jan Berenstain (This is one of my personal all time favorites! Nearly every word in the book begins with "b".
• Turk & Runt: A Thanksgiving Comedy by Lisa Wheeler
• The Big Smelly Bear by Britta Teckentrup
• The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, And The Big Hungry Bear by Audrey Wood

Music & Movement:

• Row, Row, Row The Mayflower
• I Am A Little Indian Boy
• Two Little Blackbirds
• Hello, Mr. Turkey
• Bubble Gum
• Bringing Home A Baby Bumblebee
• Our "B" Dance (First, we laid down on the floor, closed our eyes, and listened to Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. I asked the kiddos to tell me why this song might have been named after bees. I then asked them to imagine what a bee might do all day. We talked about different "Bee" Moving Ways. I played the music again and we danced with our Bees/B's as a Bumblebee might.)
• I'm A Nut
• Going On A Bear Hunt
• Turkey Trot

Science: We identified the parts of a Bee. We counted the legs, antennae, stinger, eyes, & wings. We noticed the stripes on a bee's back. Most bees do not want to sting people because when they do they die. We love honeybees because we love honey.

Math: We practiced sequencing with Big, Bigger, Biggest.

Games: Honeybee Hive & "B" Matching Memory

Art:

• Thankful Trees (I'm sure you're all wondering how many projects we can do that include our corn cob painting!) Each of the children had an opportunity to write what he/she is thankful for on three leaves. Some of the children would have loved to write more leaves and I suggested they could make more at home :) I am thankful to be a teacher to amazing children with amazing parents!
• Beehives with "B's"

Reading: There are so many wonderful "B" words that short and easy to identify. The easiest being, "be." We loved reading the words baby, ball, banana, bus, but, be, & bee. I challenged all the children to read a book with their parents and to point out the words be, no, & me.