Before Five in a Row~ {Bitty Girls}... Jesse Bear

I decided to start Before Five in a Row with the bitty girls and I'm so glad I did...
they are not the only ones to be enjoying it.

This week we rowed Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?

I talked HERE about teaching youngest to the oldest and the last two weeks have given me another reason everyone benefits from this... they ALL want to hear the story whether they admit it or not. :)

The first day I read it to the bitty girls and everyone else was busy with their own work but it wasn't long before SJ asked to read it to us~

 Evie and Holly listened every time someone read to them and even began to pick up on the sequence and rhymes. Our first activity was taking a photo, printing it, and attaching their hand to a bear body~

 They sang the rhyme... Evie Bear, What will you wear? What will you wear today? They each took a turn to describe everything they were wearing and we shared our journals with everyone~

Another day we read the story and they worked on their new Melissa and Doug puzzle that really works on fine motor skills with clothing. I also let them go up and choose anything they wanted to wear~

One of the pages in the book is about playing in the sand box. We had just cleaned and refilled our sandbox so we copied the book page as well as them playing in their sandbox then wrote our words~

SJ read to them again while they cut and glued healthy foods onto Jesse Bear's plate~

Evie noticed on one of the pages Jesse Bear had a little animal like her's so she brought it down. She and Holly also loved dressing their bear family and telling where they were going~

Some days the bitty girls would wander off to their room and others, they wanted to do what we were doing. Just look what Evie wrote all by herself so her page would look like the big girls~

The girls really enjoyed catching on to rhyming words so I printed the rhymes from HERE and as I read to them, they picked them up and glued into their journals~

The girls loved this book SO much they just about wore it out so I ordered a board book version... I SHOULD have ordered TWO!!! :)

A great couple of weeks rowing and will be sad to move on.

Fun Friday~ Jesse Bear

Today was Fun Friday and on these days I center lots of activities around one book... 

{Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?} 

I always try to fit in the cooking, reading, writing, art, and math...

Cooking: Jesse Bear muffins (last minute and found stuff in the freezer to decorate with:)  

Reading: EK read the book to the littles white they traced and cut out their own Jesse Bear to sponge paint.

Art: Made Jesse Bear and made a shirt for him to wear.

 Writing: Copied the chant with our names instead of Jesse and wrote about our favorite outfits.

(Evie's bear had a little nose run:)

Math: We played Teddy Bear Relay with teddy bear counter (boys) and the girls played Teddy Bear Addition using the scales to see which addition fact was the greatest.

All in all it was a 'Beary' Fun Friday!!!

Jesse Bear~

We are rowing Jesse Bear What Will You Wear this week and they LOVE it!

I remember it being my niece, Jessica's very favorite book when she was a little girl.

Yesterday we read the book a couple of times to see what their first impressions would be... they caught on to the rhyming right away.

I took out my smelly markers and began writing rhyming pairs on index cards.

We turned them all over and played memory, then recorded them in our notebooks~

Today we made adorable Jesse Bear puppets that outfits can be changed, talked about different forms of weather, and shared puppet shows~

 Puppetry is one of SJ's favorite activities so she loved this day's art activity!

They already can't wait to see what we will be doing tomorrow!