Baby Bears February Newsletter and this week's lesson plan

Baby Bears

February, 2014

Dear Families,

February has arrived, and the weather reminds us that winter is not over yet! Our themes for this month include Red, Hearts, Senses, Lions, and Green. Our Valentine’s Day party will be held on Friday, February 14^th. We will have a pajama day as well.  Becky will be providing a fun finger food for our morning snack. We will also have a sign-up sheet posted on our door.

We will be busy this month! We will be learning about the color red. We will learn about hearts, and we will make several art projects involving hearts.  We will use glue to make pictures with different sizes of hearts, and even explore mixing red and white paints to create different shades of pink. With these paints, we will be making valentine cards for those we love.

We will be learning about our 5 senses this month. Our activities will include tasting something sweet and sour, touching items in our magic box, and smelling our smelly scented play-dough.  To work on our sense of sight we will blow bubbles, and for hearing, we will listen to the noise we make while jumping on bubble wrap.  We will also have a sensory box which we will bring out every afternoon to play with; everything in the box will be the color red.

I want to take a moment to congratulate all of our 2 year olds on drinking out of open cups at mealtimes. Sippy cups are still provided for the younger ones. We are very proud of all our two’s for drinking like such big kids!  At mealtimes, the older toddlers sit together, and the younger ones sit together. We will begin using our baby signs again, along with words for the older toddlers. Some signs we will be using are “milk”, “more”, “please”, and “thank you.” We will also include the signs on our bulletin board outside our classroom. We are learning how to  put our dishes away after mealtime in the dishwasher bucket located by the kitchen. The older toddlers are showing our younger ones how it’s done! Good job, everyone!

Some books we will be reading this month include: Clifford’s Valentines, Happy Valentine’s Day, Mouse, Jesus Loves Me, and Clean up Time! Some fun music and movement this month will include songs like Shake Your Sillies Out and Move to It! We will also introduce If You’re Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands and Sticky, Sticky Bubblegum.

Love,

Miss Becky

Baby Bears Lesson Plan

Theme: The Color “Red”	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Music and movement	Welcome Clapping Song!	Sticky Sticky Bubblegum finger play!	Exercises and Yoga Moves	Giving our Friends Hugs, Listening to Christian Music	Shaking our sillies out and Dancing
Arts and Sensory	Red Fabric Hearts	Finger Painting Clifford Coloring Sheet	Heart Hand print	Painting with water color paints	Finger Painting with Cherry Jelly
Language Development	Reading: Llama Llama Mad at Mama	Reading Clifford’s Valentines	Bible Time with Miss Nancy Songs and Actions	Reading:  Hands Are Not For Hitting	Telling our toddlers we love them, saying it
Motor Development	Playing outside on our playground	Valentine’s Day Sensory Tub	Scribbling with markers on poster board	ABC Letter Magnets and Puzzles	Exploring Ice in warm water and cold water