Last week was all about bears and hibernating. In addition to making our
bear caves, we talked about different animals that hibernate using the book
Time to Sleep and a few other non-fiction books that I have.
This is a great book for practicing the comprehension skill of retelling, so we put the animal words in order of their place in the book.
We also used these words for some beginning sounds practice and in our predictable reading chart.
The kids wore their pajamas one day and we also made some simple bear hats.
One of our favorite activities was pretending to hibernate and sleep like bears.
This bear cave fort was a favorite last year, so I built one again this year. I sang the song below while the kids went to "sleep" in the cave and then woke them up by saying "It's spring! It's spring!"
(Tune: Are You Sleeping?)
Bear is sleeping, bear is sleeping
In the cave, in the cave
Wonder when he'll wake up, wonder when he'll wake up
In the spring, in the spring
It was also fun to pretend to sleep like other animals that hibernate- curling up like snails, tucking in shells like turtles, or hanging upside-down like bats.
Finally, we wrote in our journals about bears. It's been a fun topic to study.
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