B is for Bears

Today's lesson was all about bears!  We started the morning out by sorting and counting little bears.  We had some little fuzzy ones and some plastic colored bear counters.  We counted the types of bears and how many of each color we had.  Then Gooba had fun sorting them in her trays and using the "clapper catcher" to move them from container to container

The next activity was the biggest hit of the day so far, besides gymnastics class, size sorting.  Gooba just LOVES to classify things by families or size.  Every time we use size cards there's a daddy, a mommy, a big brother, a little sister, and a baby.  We add grandparents in if there are more cards.  On the upside, she is fantastic at sorting things by size.  We played this several times and she got them in the right order every time.

Today we also worked on making the letter B with Bendaroos.  The last time we did this activity we were new to Bendaroos so Gooba was uninterested in making any type of letter.  This time she actually tried putting the Bendaroos on the dotted lines on the paper.  She was not great at this but the effort was definitely there today.



After we were done with Bendaroos we were off to our gymnastics class or "tastics" and Gooba calls it.  I was proud of her today, she was much more confident and adventurous and played with some of the other kids for a little bit as well.  I'm looking forward to how much she will be able to do by the end of the twelve week lessons.

When we got home from gymnastics we had some lunch and worked on our Melissa and Doug Bear Family puzzle.  We got this puzzle for Christmas this past year and Gooba has been a big fan ever since.  She was disappointed today that the Daddy pajama pants are missing and we spent a good 15 minutes looking for them with no such luck.  She does love to put every bear in their pajamas.... hopefully it will turn up.

After puzzle time we snuggled up and read a few stories and now Gooba is down for her nap.  I'm hoping to get started on some bear muffins while she is sleeping and hopefully when she wakes up we can make a bear craft.

After our nap Gooba decided it was time for some art projects.  The first thing we did was finger paint two paper plates for the bear craft below.  While that was drying Gooba was finally into coloring for the first time since we started school.  And we colored ALOT!  I bought some washable markers the other day and she was all about it.

After dinner our paper plates were finally dry and we were able to add the construction paper arms, legs, ears, and face.  Also we got to add Gooba's favorite part.... the googly eyes!


All in all we had a very great bear day.  Looking forward to more bugs and butterflies tomorrow at our play date with Stay at Home Adventures.





Printables borrowed graciously from 1+1+1=1 and Confessions of a Homeschooler.