Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

The Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Book by Bill Martin Jr. And Eric Carle was my son Lucas’ first ever favorite book. The book was read to him for the first time when he was still a year and 2 months old when he attended the playgroup summer class at ISYC. He was really paying so much attention when Teacher Nikki was reading (or I should say singing) the book to this group of one year old kids. Lucas liked the book very much that he didn’t want it to end. He cried when Teacher said “The End.” After that incident, I immediately bought him a board book copy, similar to what his Teacher read to them. He was really happy. He still couldn’t express himself verbally back then but he obviously loves it because he browses through it all the time.

Now he’s attending Toddlers class in ISYC, he met the same book as they learned about colors. Also they recreated the book through various artwork activities. Well, Lucas hates glue or paint or anything that would “mess” up his hands. But I’m so proud of what he’s created that’s why I’m sharing each and every page of what he did. By the way, the Yellow Duck is my favorite 🐤 it was supposed to be a paper tearing, crumpling and sticking activity..well that’s exactly what he did 🐥.

Bulletin Board Ideas

This is a very late post but I still want to share the bulletin board ideas we have for this year.

Initially, Teacher Inna (who was my partner last school year) and I were assigned to be partners again for this year.  Our animal habitat is still the Rainforest so we came up with a new idea for our bulletin board.  We didn’t want to draw a lot and paint anymore so we decided to do a “cut and paste” way of creating our pictures.

letterings: printed the letters on yellow and green construction paper then pasted brown felt paper for “jaguar spots” effect on FUN and green felt paper for “snake scale” effect on WILD

the monkey: brown construction, brown felt, black construction and white oslo paper

snake

the toucan

butterfly

the jaguar with no whiskers yet (used brown pipe cleaners for the whiskers)

the finished bulletin board

But with unexpected circumstances, we had to exchange partners.  Therefore, I one of us need to transfer into another classroom.  I was the one who transfered.  I am not partners with Teacher Patrick.  Their classroom was assigned to have a theme about Philippine animals.  Teachers Patrick and Mel already made most of the bulletin board but our supervisors requested to change the Pawikan to Tarsier.  So I did the Tarsier, again using the “cut and paste” method.  I wanted to have the “water” effect for the bulletin board because when I saw this idea from the other bulletin boards, I kinda wanted to copy. Haha!  Then Teacher Patrick placed a “Pinoy” riding the Tamaraw.  We perked it up some more by putting colorful buntings and making the map into an “interactive” location map (where the animals can be found in the Philippines).

“Sometimes” Food Day

There are just days that I feel like eating “sometimes” food. There are days that I feel I deserve to eat “sometimes” food.

As I stepped out of ISYC, It was drizzling. I don’t have my umbrella with me so I decided to run going to my car parked across the street (good thing there weren’t a lot cars passing by). I sat down, placed my bag and lunchbox on the passenger side and started the car’s engine. I’d normally wait for the temperature indicator light to turn off before I leave, so that’s what I did. For some reason I opened my lunchbox and found the open bag of potato chips that I hid inside. We used it for the Kindergarten Science Taste Test activity earlier, I hid it because the children kept asking for it. We reviewed that Potato Chips fall under the Sometimes Food category because we can still eat foods like that but in moderation. Going back to my story, as I wait for the temperature indicator light to turn off, I found myself munching on the left over potato chips. I suddenly appreciated its taste. I liked its saltiness and barbecue flavor. Before I knew it the bag was empty. Now I understood why the children kept asking for more even though they’re aware that it is a sometimes food. There are just times in your life that you feel so exhausted, even if you really love what you’re doing, that you just want to sit back, relax and enjoy something that’s not really good for you. As for me, it was this potato chips that made me feel better, a lot better.

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