It's A New Year!

It was so nice to have everyone back together again. We had an awesome day which was a wonderful start to the new year together! We are learning about Winter this month. We are going to discover some of the happenings of Winter. Today we talked about hibernation and we learned that bears don't go into full hibernation. In other words, they don't sleep the entire winter. We did find out that cubs are born in the dens during the Winter months. Jackson said, "they get pregnant in the winter" but I'm not able to verify if that is true or not. Regardless, that wouldn't be something that we would study at preschool! Ha ha! We also learned that frogs, ladybugs, and snakes all hibernate. We actually took a walk through the woods and talked about some of the habitats where these and other animals hibernate. Speaking of hibernation, Jackson has a fort that he's been working on in the woods. I captured a picture of the boys in the fort. It almost looks as if they are hibernating too! We are learning the months of the year through song. We are still working on the days of the week song which some of the children are able to sing and sign. We also talked a little about the four seasons which we also Incorporated into our music and movement time. Andrew won our "Bear Bingo" game today! We were all proud of him especially since he is one of our youngest classmates. All of the children did great with the activity which encourages counting and one to one correspondence. Each one of the children completed the activity without any complaints! We learned a new finger play today. Here it is: Thumbs in the thumb place, fingers altogether. This is the song we sing in mitten weather. I often come across some really good early childhood education articles that are worth sharing. Here is a link to one on early childhood art and creativity: www.education.com/magazine/article/raising_young_artists/

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