Brown Bear, Brown Bear...

At MATES, we teach language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, and art in thematic units.  Over the past few weeks we've integrated reading, writing, art, and math projects in our "Color Unit".

We continued learning how to spell and read color words.  We read the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?  and made our own books.  The students found the color words on each page, underlined them the correct color, and colored the animal.  We practiced pointing to each word, reading the color words, and retelling the story.

Tracking-reading from left to right, pointing to each word as it is read

We practiced retelling the story with puppets!

Each child illustrated their own page for our first "class book".  They practiced writing their name as well as a friend's name and drew a picture of a classmate.

The students were introduced to graphing this week. They rolled dice, counted the dots, and colored in squares on a graph. They continued rolling until a color "won"!

Fun with math and colors!

The students made another color book, My Color Book.  It went home in their Friday Folders today, please ask them to read/sing it to you!


To wrap up our unit, we read a silly story, Pete the Cat and His White Shoes.  The students loved how Pete the Cat had a positive attitude no matter what he stepped in! (i.e. strawberries, blueberries).  They made their own Pete the Cat and chose their favorite color shoes.

  

We celebrated the 10th day of school by reading the story, Ten Black Dots. The students used 10 black stickers to create a picture.  They completed the sentence to tell about their picture and we re-read it together.

Ten black dots can be a juggler! Great phonetic spelling!