Teddy Bear Picnic and All Around Fun Week!
The highlight of this week was our annual Teddy Bear Picnic! On Thursday, parents joined their children in the cafeteria for lunch with their favorite furry friend. It's an event that only lasts 25 minutes, but it is filled with smiles and light conversation. It's a day of creating lasting memories, and a chance for families to spend quality time with their little ones without the interruptions of every day life. My kindergarteners were so proud to show off their families!
Our day was filled with Teddy Bear Activities: a getting to know your teddy sheet, an illustrate what you ate at the picnic sheet, and for math, my annual favorite: measure your teddy. Students first predict how many cubes tall/long their animal will be.
We had done some predicting earlier in the week and I am very happy we did. I'm going to make sure I do this every year because it made this activity so much more meaningful. Getting little ones to understand that you do not need to be exactly correct when you are predicting is tough if you don't have some practice with it.
Most students were measuring their furry friends at their tables, but this year we had a challenging guest: a boa constrictor. The boa's owner predicted he would be 55 cubes long (I was impressed with this prediction), and then began counting and connecting cubes. As his classmates finished their measuring they joined him on the rug. In the end we had the entire class surrounding the boa constrictor and counting the cubes - 93!
At the end of the day I heard those words every kindergarten teacher wants to hear, "This was the funnest day ever!" That never gets old!
As spring was ushered in we brought out some spring centers: Here are a couple of literacy centers my students loved this week:
This is a CVC word building activity. It is a freebie at my TPT store so head on over and grab one. It includes small CVC picture cards that you can print and laminate. It also includes letters to build the words if you do not have letter tiles like I used above. I got my eggs at Dollar Tree and I also found these cute baskets which made it even more engaging for my students. Two packs of eggs and two baskets = $4. I love the dollar store!
My little ones also enjoyed sorting long and short vowels:
This is just one of the 10 centers in my Spring Literacy Centers resource. Click above!
Next week we will begin work on seeds and life cycles. I can't wait!!!
Enjoy your weekend and upcoming week!
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