Bubba Bear!

Our class had so much fun working on our Bubba bear puppets this week. We've been working so hard on being good friends to one another. We read Bear's New Friend by Karma Wilson. We talked about how exciting it is to make new friends, but how scary it can be too.

Later in the week we read Bear Wants More, also by Karma Wilson (you can find them at our local library) or at Barnes & Nobles. After reading both books we finished up our Bubba Bear puppets. We continue to practice our "in" sentences. This week we worked on putting things in Bear's mouth! Boy does Bear have a big mouth! His belly must be pretty big too if it can fit all these goodies!

This week we will be working on our new friend, Catina Cat. Please continue to review vocabulary words with your child and keep on working on putting things "in" various containers.

Have a great week!
-Mrs. Atou

You can click the image below for the template:

Allie Alligator Pouch

Today we worked on our Allie Alligator pouches. We filled Allie with some vocabulary cards of words we know that begin with the letter “a”. To make Allie we made a template of our own (we originally found Allie at : http://www.kinderbykim.com/september.htm).

If you want to make one of your own at home you’ll need:

1 8.5 x 11 green paper

2 yellow eyes

2 red nostrils

1 red mouth

1 set of white teeth

and some glitter for accent.

We used our fine motor skills to fold the paper in ½ and glue the pre cut pieces.

Please practice these vocabulary words with your child at home. Some concepts you can practice would be in and out. (eg. Put the apple in Allie).

Have a great day!

-Mrs. Atou

PS if you’d like a copy of the template you can email me at mrs.tammyatou@gmail.com or click the jpeg image below.

Allie Alligator

Today we worked on making our Allie Alligator clips. We started off by reading a story called See You Later Alligator. Then we worked on our alligator clips. It took a lot of time painting and gluing, and well a lot of mess was required! We used a clothespin, 2 pieces of pipe cleaner, a straw, googey eyes, and a marker to draw in his tongue. Here's the finished project. We hope you like it!

Welcome!

Hi Families!
Welcome to our 2012-2013 school year! We're looking forward to getting to know you all throughout this school year.
This year we will be continuing with our Zoo-Phonics program to introduce letters and letter sounds. As we follow along with this curriculum we'll be introducing new letters each week with a new animal. Over the first 2 weeks we will be learning all about our friends and introducing Allie Alligator.
I hope you all enjoy the projects that your child will be bringing home this year.

Please feel free to call me at school at 832-3500 or email me at mrs.tammyatou@gmail.com
-Mrs. Atou

Talking Tuesday's!

Today we had a Fantastic time going Fishing! We started off our Francy fish week yesterday by reading an adaptation of the 3 little pigs, The 3 Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark. All the kids loved the smashing of the houses!

To build on counting, fine motor, turn taking & speech we jumped right into the pond & went fishing this morning! We used goldfish pretzels, peanut butter, & chopsticks for poles. If you get a chance go ahead & try this at home with your child this afternoon!
Thanks again to Ms. Lynn for an awesome session.

Busy Bees

Well we are off to a Bee-autiful start! This week we had lot's of fun learning about the letter b. We brainstormed a list of words that started with b, we counted the boys in the class and we learned about bears and bees.

Bubba bear, our "b" friend for zoo-phonics introduced the sound for us. We followed him through a fun story of Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? by Bill Martin and illustrated by Eric Carle. We also learned that Bubba loves honey. And who makes honey? Well, bees do!

We made rice krispies bee treats with Ms. Lynn for speech. You can make your own at home by following these simple directions:
You'll need: a package of rice krispies treats, 2 small candies(like a mini m&m), black or dark brown frosting, and 2 almond slices.
1. smoosh the rice kripies treat into an egg shape
2. put the frosting into a ziploc bag and sni off the end, then pipe the frosting stripes onto the treat.
3. put a frosting dot to "glue" the small candy on for the eyes.
4. put a frosting dot to "glue" the 2 almond wings

It should look something like this:

Busy Bees!