What Will You Wear, Jesse Bear?

This week, we focused on Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? and the rhyme scheme of the book was a big hit. Silas is definitely a music lover and the way he picks up on things orally makes me think this is may be his primary learning style when I once would have told you he was a kinesthetic...I'm still not sure though because depending on the activity, he really loves to show what he can do. All of that to say, this week's activities were not meet with the same enthusiasm as the previous week so I'm still learning what sparks his fire.

On Monday, we read Jesse Bear for the first time and talked about how he wore different clothes for different activities. We discussed what we would wear in different weather scenarios and colored our weather bear paper dolls. I colored a set too, so they could be laminated and used again and because he likes to work together. His bears turned into a fire fighter bear and he lost interest in coloring the rest. We worked on pairing our rhymes and I was surprised he didn't miss one and even came up with more rhymes of his own. We also used our rhyme cards and spelled out some of the words. He picked up on sand and hand used some of the same letters.

On Tuesday, we read our story again and talked about Jesse Bear's healthy lunch. Silas' activity was to cut and paste Jesse Bear's food on his plate. He really took his time and was proud of this activity. We also worked with our gears and magnatiles but had more of a play day since we were tired and trying to beat the heat.

 On Wednesday, we took school on the road and went to the library. We picked out books, played a few learning games on their iPad while Ezra worked on puzzles. When we got home we read two Jesse Bear books we got at the library- Don't Get Wet, Jesse Bear and How Do You Say it Today, Jesse Bear? and we liked these stories just as much.  Today we colored some pages on his lap book but he was resistant so we didn't do much. The iPad learning derailed him so he wanted to do more iPad learning. We settled on the leapfrog writing board.

On Thursday, we read our story and played with our completed weather bears. We also worked on the B part of our weather book. He colored his words and his B, pasted them in his book. We still had more pages to finish our lap book but he was not interested in creating our own book like I had hoped. We may shelve book making until he is older!

All in all, it was a great week but I found he wasn't too excited about the lap book because it had too much coloring. He loves being creative but gives up on coloring easily because he was told by a friend he scribble scrabbles and I think it hurt his feelings. I want to be sensitive to his feelings but I don't want him to give up so we talk about the many different art styles and sometimes artist are messy. I do however want him to learn how to color in the lines but I'm sure that will come at the right time. I'm going to incorporate other activities with less crayon work for us next week.