Today is the day the teddy bears have their picnic!

Posted by : Mrs Mendonca

Yesterday in our class we had a Teddy Bear Picnic.  The friends in our class were allowed to bring in their teddy bear for the day.  We read a great story all about a little girl who gets a very special bear names Corduroy.  Here is the book :

Then, we had a discussion about where we all got our special teddy bears and we shared the names of our bears.  We used our bears to practice sorting.  We put all our bears in the middle of the carpet and thought of ways to sort them.

We sorted the bears by size.  The small bears, the medium sized bears and the big bears.  

Throughout the day, we also gave our bears checkups using the doctor set in the dramatic play center.  We danced to the song "I am a gummy bear" and sang the "Teddy bear picnic" song.  We also had many books about bears in our reading center.  Here is one of our bear friends reading a book !

Here is Breeona's bear reading a book about Bears on Vacation....he's funny !

We had a very fun day!  Maybe the bears can come back to school on another day !

Note: This week you may have received a letter about your child's RAZ reading account.  I have added all the students who are ready to start reading books online.  Take some time to log on and get started with the program this weekend.  It is an AMAZING online reading program that will help improve your child's reading.  Happy reading !