The Busy Bees Are Buzzing About Hot/Cold and So Much More

Here's the Buzzzzzzzz on the Busy Bees:

• Color: White

• New Shape: Rectangle

• Concepts: Hot/cold.

• We felt hot and cold packs.

• We put on mittens to see the difference in how hot and cold felt.

• Themes:

• Snow, snowmen and the color white

• Dressing for winter weather

• Rectangles and sleds

• Penguins and polar bears

The Busy Bees are also:

• working on pre-writing skills using salt trays and paintbrushes to make designs.

• reviewing colors and shapes every day. The new color and shape for this month is white and rectangle.

• working on counting using math bags. The Bees get to bring in items that we count during circle.

• They use a 10-frame math board to help with counting.

• working on counting by route and 1:1 correspondence.

• practicing fine motor skills and strengthening our hands and different muscles.

• They have worked on both vertical and horizontal surfaces. For the vertical, they have used a hanging LEGO mat and a sticky snowman. For the horizontal surface, they have utilized the art table and other tabletop structures.

• having "tummy time" during circle to work on those important core muscles.