Week 13 (Dec. 3, 4, 5) This week we got out some new toys! Farm toys and animals were a hit! Especially after reading about what different animals do to get ready for winter. We have been doing a lot of predictable reading. Hard words that don't follow the rules, like "bear" and "squirrel", can still be guessed when we know the context. We read about bears hibernating and then about squirrels gathers nuts for wintertime. I wrote the words in the middle of the page, and asked them to guess which was which. Each child got it on their own! What does it start with? Buh, buh, bear? Yes! Then we continued on to draw each home, and put in the coordinating sticker of each animal. Then they drew a line from the right word to the animal. We haven't played with potato heads in a while. They sure loved them! The preschoolers went on a nature walk to find a few things for the bear habitat they made. I made each kid a list and they ...