Kindergarten WIR: BFIAR "Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?"

Silas had a short, three day week this week. I decided to do very simple "row" with him and Titus {3}. I would like to use BFIAR with them both, and I wanted a trial run! We already had the book "Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?", so we started with it.

This book is so cute, and it's one of my boys favorite books. I enjoy reading the simple, sing-songy {is that a word?} words, as well.

We played with our Melissa and Doug Bear Family Dress Up Puzzle {which is the perfect toy for this book!}.

We went outside and smelled the roses {"I'll wear a rose between my toes, a rose in my toes in the morning...}. I let the boys each pick one, and we looked at the thorns on the stem. I pointed out the parts of the flower. Then Silas put it between his toes and brought it up to his nose like Jesse did!

I bought a bag of gummy bears, and we dumped them out on the table. I had the boys group them by color, and then we counted each color. There were 12 yellow, 6 red, 6 green, and 3 orange. Then we divided them up and ate them!

We played with our counting bears and pattern cards, and sorted them into cups by color.

We painted with sponge shapes and talked about the different shapes in the book.

We also played with our shape sorter and talked about colors and less common shapes {hexagon, diamond, pentagon}.

I printed off some tracing and sound recognition worksheets to go along with the book that they boys completed. They did about half of them, so I probably won't do a lot of printables next time.

Silas also reviewed the uppercase letters and lowercase letters he has learned. We learned the "g" and "h" this week, and he made his letter craft {his favorite part of All About Reading!}. We also played a fun game where he had to choose the cards with the correct beginning sound. He did very well on this.

In math, we practiced simple addition with his counting bears. We practiced counting to 30 and writing a few numbers. He worked in his Count and Color For Boys Journal. We are still working on number recognition for 6 and up.

He also worked in some workbooks {he loves workbooks}, colored a ton, used critical thinking to build a working train track, and played with pattern blocks!

We had a great Kindergarten week. I do plan to continue with BFIAR, as both boys loved it!

How was your week?

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