Hibernation Week!

What a fun week we had in PreK.  Our hibernation days were so exciting!  We had fun coming to school in our pajamas with our favorite stuffed animals.  It was all giggles and squeals when we came in from playing outside to find out our "napping" bears had actually been playing in the room while we were gone!!  The students worked on their matching and fine motor skills when we went on a Brown Bear hunt through the school hallways.

We worked on our language skills retelling Brown Bear Brown Bear What do you See? using strips of paper to recall the different colors of each animal.  We also had fun with the book We're Going on a Bear Hunt and singing the song Hibernating Bear.  We strengthened our fine motor skills by making bear ear head bands to wear.  

Click here to see pictures of our hibernating fun: Hibernation Day

Mind Up Curriculum 

We talked this week about making mindful decisions.  This is thinking before you act.  We compared different behaviors and discussed if they were mindful or unmindful decisions.  This is a big concept for PreK to understand.  Over the next several weeks I plan to help the students begin to understand this concept by pointing out their mindful behaviors to them as they are happening!

Our classroom occupational therapist, Mrs. Sangster was in working with the students on "umbrella breathing."  I will be adding this concept to our deep breathing strategies as another tool for calming down and self-regulating.  

In the Gym

Monday and Tuesday were all about jumping.  The students had fun rotating through different jumping stations.  They practiced jumping down with two feet, hopping across 'lily pads,' jumping with two feet through hula hoops, and jumping over a skipping rope!

We had fun playing bear games in the gym this week.  On hibernation day we played games with our stuffed animals.  The students loved trying to "bounce" the bears off of our blue blanket.  We really had to work as a team to get all of the bears off!  We also worked on underhand throwing by tossing all of the bears into a hamper.  

Click here to get a peak at some of our bear fun in the gym: Bears in the Gym

Christmas Concert

We have begun practicing for our Christmas concert.  I am planning to have our PreK Christmas concert, as well as a Christmas FOP here at Riverview School on Friday, December 9th.  Stay tuned for the exact times - to be announced soon!

Coming Up

Next week we will be diving into the world of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.