Our first book to row was Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? by Nancy Carlstrom and illustrated by Bruce Degen. It is a sweet book of rhyme and rhythm that travels through the day of Jesse Bear as he wakes and dresses, eats and plays and is lovingly cared for by his mom and dad.
Our bible verses for the week are Proverbs 17:22 - A cheerful heart makes good medicine; and Proverbs 15:13 - A happy heart makes the face cheerful
Monday we read the book, which James loved and colored the title page for our lapbook.
Next we got out our letter "Bb" sheets from our Tot School Notebook that I made last year and worked on tracing and sounding the letter "B". We have a long way to go on learning the proper pinch for holding a writing instrument! He still just likes to scribble.
Next we did a Do a Dot activity with the letter "B". I asked him to do the dots on the balls pictured on the letter and he did very well with this. He loves dot paint!
Next we worked on our "Jesse Bear Wears" coloring book. He colored Jesse's shirt red and his pants blue.
The last activity we did for the day was talking about Jesse Bear's healthy lunch. Then we pasted his lunch onto the plate. This was his first time using a glue stick and he loved it! He did very well controlling the glue stick and getting the right amount onto the small piece of paper without getting it everywhere and he loved pounding it onto the paper.
Tuesday we worked on his pinch again and tracing the letter B. The dry erase marker on a sheet protector is a great idea! He can use it over and over!
He is already doing a teeny bit better with his pinch.
Then we did an activity called "What Should I Wear?" and talked about the kinds of clothes we put on when it's hot and cold. He colored the pictures and glued them into the book.
Then we did a really fun exercise of "What Should Jesse Bear Wear?" He loved this! He didn't quite get the concept at first, but seemed to catch on by the end.
Here he was pretending it was thundering and raining. He is simultaneously fascinated and terrified of thunderstorms right now.
The last activity we did before playing a game was talking about family. We talked about who was in Jesse Bear's family and how he was so loved by his mommy and daddy. We looked at the illustrations in the book that showed the affection his parents had for him as they lovingly cared for him. Then we talked about our family. We talked about how much he is loved by his mommy and daddy and his brothers. Then we pasted pictures of Jesse Bear's family and our family into a book.
The last thing we did was play "Find the Bears", which he totally did not get. I hid six small laminated bears in the playroom and let him try to find them. They were in very obvious places! He saw them, but didn't want to pick them up. Then when I asked him if he wanted to hide them from me, he said yes and then flipped out when I left the room. I guess we will have to play hide and seek more often!
We skipped Wednesday because it was our first day of BSF! I can't believe how old he looks in this picture!
Ethan didn't go with us the first week because Pop volunteered to come over and stay with him so he wouldn't miss his morning nap. Then the little stinker didn't sleep. Go figure.
James had a great morning, but by the time we came home he needed to big time decompress, so we skipped what I had planned and just read Jesse Bear at nap time.
Thursday was our final day on the book. I thought it would be fun to have bear shaped pancakes for breakfast and he got a real kick out of that!
Not bad if I do say so myself!
He worked on his tracing sheets again. Then we got out the scissors for the first time. Whoa! I had no idea this would be such a challenging thing to try to teach. My first week of doing this is already showing me how many "basic" things James needs to learn first and how frustrating it is to watch them slowly figure things out. Lets just say that cutting is going to take a while! He colored some pictures of things that start with the letter B and then we I cut them and pasted them into a B shaped book.
We talked about different types of bears and I showed him these animal classification cards.
I think he'll have these down by next week... LOL! He liked looking at the different types of bears though.
Then we did rhyming words and a game of matching. He mostly just wanted to put the cards in a line. He loves to line things up!
We talked about what a rhyme is and I had him try to pick out the words that went together. He didn't really get it. After a few tries we moved on to matching. He is pretty good at this!
The last activity was working on drawing a line from left to right. This was the outcome...
Oh well. He had fun with it!
He was pretty over it at this point so we decided to play in the sandbox like Jesse Bear does in the book.
And so ends our first week of BFIAR preschool. Whew! It was a lot of prep for a short period of activity each day. I have to say it was fun getting it all ready though. He really enjoyed most of the things we did and I am trying to focus on his enjoyment and keeping a laid back attitude about the process. I am hoping to post what we do regularly so that I will be able to "re-do" it with little man in another year or so. We'll see if I can keep up!
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