Preschoolers are so adorable. I love them. They want to learn, they're enamored by every detail and almost anything you want to teach them is new to them. That is my kind of student!!!Today we reviewed the letter N, added 'th" to "sh" that we learned on Tuesday and noticed that "th" tickles our tongues. We continued identifying vowels.
The animal home we learned about today was a cave in Alaska where grizzly bears spend their winter. We learned about hibernation and the big difference between beavers staying awake all winter from our last class to why our great big grizzlies need to sleep all winter-there's just not enough food around to keep a large mammal fed in the middle of the blizzards. The Life of Mammals segment showed a grizzly sleeping--and snoring! Grizzlies lose 1,000,000 calories. Yes, that is ONE MILLION calories while they hibernate for 5-6 months and wake up very hungry. It was neat to learn that they eat roots (we eat carrots and potatoes), then grass (we eat salads), then on to meat (like us!), berries (really, really like us!) and then on to salmon (like most of us who eat fish.) By the end of the summer salmon run the bears were big, fat and hairy again. Wow!
Then our little preschool grizzlies hibernated and woke up to spring finding themselves starving.
We enjoyed cookies (The Bumpy Little Pumpkin was the inspiration for not so perfect jack o lantern cookies) for snacks, Halloween stories were read, Halloween Bingo was played and then they experienced the toy room with the lights off, fog machine on and adorned with glow necklaces.Happy Halloween Millington Style!
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