Letter Hh and Bears

This week our theme was Bears and Letter Hh. We talked about when you say letter Hh's sound you can feel the hot air on your hand, and we took different pictures and words and said the names. We then decided if they started with the sound for Hh if we could feel the air on our hands.

For our bears, I decided to read and talk about different types of bears rather than just Hibernation (which is what I originally planned). We read a non-fiction book about Polar Bears on Tuesday, did the "Bear Hunt" lots, and read "Brown Bear, Brown, Bear" and "Panda Bear, Panda Bear." We talked about how different bears look different and live in different places.

We did our number 0 pages (and 1 in AM class). The number pages are taking a while to finish as they are learning the format, but soon they will be super fast for them to do. We also did several whole group counting and number recognition activities.

For letter Hh we made Hippo puppets. It's fun to see how "into" the art projects some of the students get. They are starting to recognize their own interests and talents, and I love it.