November theme - Bears & Other Forest Animals

   

Goodbye Farm Unit!  Hello Bears!
The month of November will highlight the language of our new unit, Bears & other Forest Animals.  We are excited to see how this change will help the preschoolers gain progress with their language

goals.  Along with the theme change, comes a change in background scenery, new stories, as well as new songs & poems.

During the first week of the theme, we read, Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  We focused on the vocabulary words of big, medium, and small.  We even acted out the Three Bears story with three real beds (of different sizes), three chairs and three bowls of porridge.  We used different voices when talking like the Papa Bear, Mama Bear and Baby Bear.  Be sure to ask your child to tell you about his or her favorite part of the story.  Hopefully, he or she will use the different voices that we practiced in class.  Although we are finished with this story in class, we will continue to learn the "Three Bears Rap" song as the month progresses.

To further extend the our learning from the story, we made real porridge during our language experience time.  Although we weren't able to cook the porridge on the spot, we tasted some porridge that Ms. Julie made for us at home.  It was "just right"...well, maybe with a little bit of sugar added to it.  :)

Here is a Youtube version of the story that the preschoolers enjoyed singing along to this week:

Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Song