Teddy Bears and Hibernation

Today we learned all about Hibernation! We had lots of fun at our Teddy Bear Picnic in the back yard. We talked all about bears and their fall and winter habits, and read Corduroy. Ask your child where a bear sleeps during the winter, and what it is called when an animal sleeps for a realy really long time. We practiced saying "hi-ber-nate" all day today. For our hibernation activity, we made caves for our bears to sleep in this winter. The kids had fun coloring and cutting the bears, as well as gluing twigs onto the caves.

PAINTING! Yeah! The kids finally got to paint today, and boy were they excited! We painted pictures of what we liked about our field trip to the fire department. We were going to make a book to give to the Chief as a thank you, but we LOVED the pictures so much, we decided to add them to the kids' scrapbooks. We'll be making a different thank you card next time :).

We also got to make a fun card for the police department. Our class didn't get to see the police on our fieldtrip, but we will be having a special visitor at our school soon-hint hint wink wink.

Number 4: We also learned about number four today. All the four-year-olds were extremely proud to strut their stuff!

I'm a mean old witch! (Not a confession, a song). We jumped the gun and learned this song early today. The kids absolutely LOVED it! Ask them to sing it for you, and if they have you sing along, make sure you do it VERY dramatically :).

NEW FRIENDS:

I finally have the pictures of our two new boys! Yeah! Welcome Judd and Lincoln. We are SOO overly excited to have you :). They are already best buds with each other and our cute Deakin. Go Boys!