Teddy Bear Picnic Continued

Teddy Bear Picnic Continued

There was way too much fantastic learning happening throughout the week not to have a follow up post to share what we've been up to in more depth!

  

In the context of the Teddy Bear's picnic we looked at fractions and division.  We designed picnic rugs that were half one colour and half another.  We looked at sharing the food for the picnic in half and discussed the idea of fair shares.  

We sorted the teddies by colour and counted to see how many there were of each. 

 

We made numbers on our Teddy Bear Bus Tens frames.

We read the story, The Best-Loved Bear and wrote descriptions of our own bears. 

    

 

 

We also read the story Brown Bear Brown Bear and we wrote our own versions!

 

 

 

 

It was such a fun week and each day the children came in excited to see what new things we'd be doing with our teddies.  Engagement was high and excitement was contagious! Thanks for an awesome week everyone! We will have to leave our teddies at home to rest after all that play and work they've done! 

Teddy Bear's Picnic Continued

Last week our Teddy Bear Picnic inspired learning sparked so much excitement and interest that we have more of that learning to share with you!

Literacy

We read stories about bears during reading time and we wrote about teddies! Look at some of our amazing writing!

We read this story:

Which is all about what our teddies actually do when we're not looking and then we wrote our own versions about what we think our teddies do when we are at school.

We thought about what we needed on a picnic and we had to stretch the sounds of the words and use the stamps to write them.  This is what we call stretchy snake and it is a strategy we learn in reading and writing.

Poetry and Movement: All week we learned this poem Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear and we acted it out with our own teddies!

Numeracy
There were so many ways we linked Teddy Bears' Picnic to maths it was incredible!

Introducing Fractions: We introduced the fraction 1/2 by decorating a picnic mat and thinking about each half having a different pattern. 

Sorting, counting and graphing: We sorted and graphed our teddies by size.  This exercise was really interesting because it caused some confusion around the difference between size and quantity.  Many of us got confused about which teddy we had the least amount of because the 1 was so big!

We also got to sort, count and graph these gummy bears and then we got to eat them too! They were delicious!

Story problems with math buddies: We had a story problem of bears coming over the hill to the Teddy Bears' Picnic and we had to figure out and explain how we figured out how we knew how many teddies were coming to the picnic. 

Some of the ways we explained our thinking was that we knew 5 + 5 =10, so 1 less would make it 9.  Some of us explained that we knew a whole 10 and some more was a teen and others knew 5 + 5 =10 plus 3 more makes 13. 

 

Art and Making: We made our own teddy puppets and we used playdough to make teddy food for the picnic!

Celebrating: At the end of the week we had a family and teddy picnic on top grass.  It was lovely to end our week of ted-tastic exploration and learning with some lovely afternoon tea with our friends, teds and whanau!

Thanks for those who could make it!