News Letter

CLOSED DATES:
  • February 02,2012 ACW will close at 4:00pm 
  • February 20,2012 ACW will be closed for a paid holiday

 

Home Connection

This is a calendar filled with some of the things we will be working on this month. However, everything we do will not be on this calendar.
 

 

Winter theme 

Winter & Polar Bears

Who, what, where, why?

 

 

 

Recognition of:

 * Letters & sounds

* Numbers & counting

* Shapes & colors

 

 

Practice writing:

 * First & last name

 

 

Polar Bear

 Polar Bear, Polar Bear, Turn around. Polar Bear, Polar Bear, Touch the ground. Polar Bear, Polar Bear, Shine your shoes. Polar Bear, Polar Bear, Skidoo. Polar Bear, Polar Bear, Go upstairs. Polar Bear, Polar Bear, Say your prayers. Polar Bear, Polar Bear, Turn out the light. Polar Bear, Polar Bear, Say good night.

 

 

The Bear Went Over the Mountain Tune: For He's a Jolly Good Fellow

The bear went over the mountain, The bear went over the mountain, The bear went over the mountain, To see what he could see To see what he could see, To see what he could see The other side of the mountain, The other side of the mountain, The other side of the mountain, Was all that he could see Was all that he could see, Was all that he could see, The other side of the mountain, Was all that he could see!

 

 

February

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1

 

We can create Snow  in a Jar

(Science)

 

2

 

 

CLOSE at 4:00pm

 

3

Music & Dance

(Music)

 Cut & paste

(Math)

 

4

 

 

 

 

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

 

6

Word of the week:

a

(Language & Literacy)

 

7

Book-Polar bear -

Polar bear
(Language & Literacy)

 Heart craft

(Art)

 

8

Numbers 1-5

Recognition

Peg Boards 

(Math)

 

9

Play Doh

 letters, numbers, shapes

& colors

(Science)

10

Classifying Winter

Animals & People

(Science/Social Studies/Math)

 

11

 

 

 

 

 

 

12

 

 

 

 

 

 

13

Word of the week:

and

(Language & Literacy)

 

14

Polar bear craft

(Art)

 

 

 

15

Textile numbers 1-5 * Make it with sand

(Writing/Math)

 

 

16

A polar bear has fat.

Shorting & Water

(Science)

 

17

Music & Dance

(Music)

 Cut & paste it

(Math)

 

 

18

 

 

 

 

 

19

 

 

 

20

No School

CLOSED

 Presidents Day – Paid holiday

21

Word of the week:

away

(Language & Literacy)

22

Numbers 1-5

Addition by 1

(Math)

 

23

How to create a Snowflake

(Science)

 

 

24

 

Polar bears & people

Activity

(Social Studies)

 

25

 

 

 

 

 

 

26

 

 

 

 

 

27

Word of the week:

big

 

(Language & Literacy)  

28

 

Finger

painting letters

(Art)

 

29

Numbers 1-10

Addition by 1

(Math)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Polar Bear Fun Facts

 

 

 

The polar bear or the sea/ice bear are the world's largest land predators. They can be found in the Artic, the U.S. (Alaska), Canada, Russia, Denmark (Greenland), and Norway. Each of these countries either banned hunting or established rules for how many polar bears could be hunted within its own boundaries. These rules help keep polar bear populations stable. Today, 25,000 to 40,000 polar bears roam the Arctic.

Around the age of four or five the female polar bear can start having babies. They usually only have two cubs and they have these babies in a cave they've dug in a large snow drift. They stay there over winter and come out in spring with the babies.

The babies are much smaller than human babies when they're born. They are the size of a rat and weigh little more than a pound. They can grow to full man size in a year if they have lots of food.

Despite what we think, a polar bear's fur is not white. Each hair is clear hollow tube. Polar bears look white because each hollow hair reflects the light. On sunny days, it traps the sun's infrared heat and keeps the bear warm at 98 degrees F (when they're resting).

Polar bear fur is oily and water repellent. The hairs don't mat when wet, allowing the polar bears to easily shake free of water and any ice that may form after swimming.

 

Polar bears have wide front paws with slightly webbed toes that help them swim. They paddle with their front feet and steer with their hind feet. Paw pads with rough surfaces help prevent polar bears from slipping up on the ice.

Polar bears have been known to swim 100 miles (161 kilometers) at a stretch.

Polar bears primarily eat seals. They often rest silently at a seal’s breathing hole in the ice, waiting for a seal in the water to surface. Once the seal comes up, the bear will spring and sink its jagged teeth into the seal’s head.

Sometimes the polar bear stalks its prey. It may see a seal lying near its breathing hole and slowly move toward it, then charge it, biting its head or grabbing it with its massive claws. A polar bear may also hunt by swimming beneath the ice.

Humans are the polar bears only predator. Baby polar bears often starve. In fact, 70 percent do not live to their third birthday. Sometimes seals are hard to find, especially in the summer when the ice has melted. All across the Arctic, man is moving in to mine oil and coal and there is less space for the polar bear to live. Oil spills can be very dangerous. A bear with oil on its coat cannot regulate its body temperature properly. If the bear eats the oil while grooming it could die.

Man made pollution is also a cause of death. At each stage of the food chain, pollutants get more concentrated. By the end when the polar bear eats the seal and it could be lethal.

 

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