This month has been a super busy month in the Bear Room! The older children who are heading off to Kindergarten are preparing for their new schools! We have been working on writing and counting, as well as practicing our sight words! The Bears have been busy working hard.

We started out the month learning all about the farm! We talked about what the farm gives us and how it helps our body! Cheyenne brought in her saddle and taught us all how to ride horses. We also practiced milking cows, painted with hay, and talked about the fruits and vegetables we love! We had so much fun during farm week!

Once farm week was over we moved on to one of our favorite topics, BUGS!   We learned all about the three main parts of an insect’s body, what has six legs and what has eight and we discussed how important the bees are to our environment! When bug week was over the children had the opportunity to teach the teachers all that they learned! Of course, we then had to go on a nature walk and look for all kinds of wonderful bugs! We even looked over the leaves on the trees to see if some of our favorite bugs had been munching on them!

We finish May with super hero week. We are discussing what it means to be a hero, and who a hero is in our lives. Some of our favorite responses were ‘my mommy is my hero, she kisses my boo-boos and ‘heroes are people who help and protect!” During super hero week we were all given chances to be the ‘leader of the pack’ (switching line leaders every time we leave the room’. We even read our favorite super hero book “Issac and his Amazing Asperger Superpowers.” This book sparked a large conversation about what it means to be different, and how our differences don’t make us any less special!

Until next time!
The Bear Room (Jordan and Cheyenne)