B is for Button!

Wow, we did a lot of button activities this week. We did our Corduroy activity found here. 

We also sorted buttons by shape, size, and button holes.

We played button war. Each child started with 15 buttons and then rolled a dice and counted that many buttons onto the table. Whoever had the most buttons got everyone else's buttons. We used a 10 sided dice so that the kids practiced recognizing their numbers at the same time.

The kids also made friendship button and bead bracelets for their teddies before our teddy bear picnic.

Teddy Bear Picnic Tues./Thurs.

(I promised Gracie's mom I would take a lot of pictures, so be ready for it!)

For letter B week we had a teddy bear picnic and we had so much fun! We were glad that Miranda and Trevor were able to come and that we were joined by our moms, dads, and grandparents. I hope everyone else had as much fun as I did!
Before we went to the park, we sang "Cool Bear Hunt" by Dr. Jean and did a few other letter "b" activities:

Books

Blocks - Miranda even made a Boat for her Bear

Button & Bead friendship Bracelets
At the park we did a few teddy bear and letter "b" activities:

• teddy, teddy, bear (duck, duck goose)
• pass the button (We had a button on a string tied in a loop. Each person held onto the string and we sang a song. As we sang, we passed the button from one person to the next and whoever had the button when the song ended, answered a question about their teddy bear.)
• We read the book "Where's my Teddy?" which is one of my favorites to read out loud.

The kids had a lot of fun on the playground.
Their favorite activities were climbing up and down the barsand the slide
Miranda even got everyone making snow sand angels. She was nice enough to let her teddy go first.
We also had a teddy bear lunch: honey & peanut butter sandwiches cut in the shape of a bear, teddy grahams, & strawBerry juice.
Thank you to all the family who came and helped make this day a lot of fun!

Teddy Bear Picnic Mon./Wed.

For Letter B week we had a Teddy Bear Picnic! All the kids had so much fun doing activities with their teddy bears in class and at the park. When everyone arrived, we sang "Cool Going on a Bear Hunt" by Dr. Jean and we had lots of "b" activities to do with our teddies:

Books

Blocks

Button & Bead friendship Bracelets

At the park we did a few teddy bear and letter "b" activities:

• teddy, teddy, bear (duck, duck goose)
• pass the button (We had a button on a string tied in a loop. Each person held onto the string and we sang a song. As we sang, we passed the button from one person to the next and whoever had the button when the song ended, answered a question about their teddy bear.)
• We read the book "Where's my Teddy?" which is one of my favorites to read out loud.

We also had a teddy bear lunch: honey & peanut butter sandwiches cut in the shape of a bear, teddy grahams, & strawBerry juice. After the kids ate, they played with their bears on the playground. Their two favorite things to do were having Noe's dad help them across the monkey bars and making a train down the slide. It was a very fun day. The kids were exhausted by the end, but there were smiles on their faces.

B is for Button

We focused on buttons for one of the days during letter B week.

We sorted buttons by shape, size, color, or number of holes.

We read the book Corduroy and made lift the flap, hiding button pictures. Here's how we did it:

Each child got a small rectangle of paper and drew a place that a button might be hiding. The kids drew things like beds, tables, closets, etc.

They glued a button in the middle of another paper that said, "My button is hiding under the. . .
They glued the edge of their picture next to the button so the picture covered it up. Then we wrote where the button was under the picture.