Brown Bear Brown Bear

We have officially started tot school!!! Brown Bear Brown Bear is our first unit (thank you, Kristin, for many of the ideas!). I am really aiming at just having fun with Jace and if he learns something along the way, cool! While there are many words he will repeat when I ask him to, apparently Brown and Bear aren't those words. The first day he said "bra" for brown…. cool, I'll call that a win. But then he wouldn't repeat it the rest of the week. If I ask him to say the word bear, he now makes an angry face and does a low growl. We will get there. :) By the 3rd day, however, he could point to whatever animal I asked him to point to in the book. So I know he knows more than what he is communicating! 

Here is our bin of brown items!

Jace wanted to wear the brown pipe-cleaners on his head.

We started each day by reading the book! (Which is now his new favorite book for me to read)

I found him sitting in his bin, reading the book by himself. 

We played "hide and seek" with brown bear. (Which was me trying to run ahead of Jace to put the bear somewhere… he usually just watched me put it down and then would pick it up and hand it to me!) He loved this! Oh, and yes, that is a pair of shorts on his head and one sandal. Seriously just a typical day in our house… he is such a clown. 

We then colored with brown crayons and used brown stickers!

We hung his picture on the fridge and he put magnets on!

I made a brown bear for him for lunch. 

We watched a 2.5 minute video about bears! He loves this video and watched it a few times!

We tried matching heads and tails, and then a cartoon bear to a real life bear. He wanted nothing to do with this. Hopefully he will come around in time.

We tried sorting gummy bears. But this was his first reaction to seeing the gummy bears.

So we moved on to plastic counting bears. He didn't want to sort anything. So he just played with the bears in the egg carton. 

We colored a brown bear. As you can see, the coloring didn't last long. Just a few scribbles of brown. :) 

We also painted with brown paint and made a Bear face!

Daddy read Brown Bear Brown Bear to Jace.

And this is Jace pointing to the brown bear!

It was a really fun week! I am excited to review brown and bears with him throughout the upcoming weeks to see if he will start saying those words. It's such a quick overview during the week, that I hope the repetition during the upcoming weeks will solidify it more. I don't push it much. When he looses interest, we are done. So these activities don't last long at all. But we have fun during those few minutes. :)