Going on a Bear Hunt , Really ?
The children were excited and nervous about the possibility of us going on a bear hunt today. One of the things we did this morning was sing this song ;
We’re going on a bear hunt
A baby baby Yeah
We’re going on a bear hunt
What you say
Yeah We’re going on a bear hunt…
I hope we find a big one today….
Afterwards we talked ( and charted ) what we might need if we went on a bear hunt . We talked about where we might find a bear and what the bear would do if we found him. Our conclusion was .. that it probably wouldn’t be safe for a group of kids to take off on a bear hunt. Bears are wild and we might get hurt. BUT! We could pretend to go on a bear hunt while we are outside !
During journal time one of our littles drew a bear in a cave.
We played games with bear counters. I took one color and said.. ” look , I have a family of bears. The yellow bear needs a family too. Where should we put him ?” So, we sorted. We counted. We patterned.
Ms Dallas told the story of ” Goldilocks and the Three Bears” and the children had masks to act out the story on their own.
Though it seemed we were pulled in a 1000 different directions today we did have a normal day and got ” stuff ” done.