Winter!

This week we dove into the winter season! We began the week by asking what things we do in the wintertime (contributing as a member of a group)! Afterwards, we sorted real clothing items into summer and winter piles.  We discussed the items and why we would wear them in the summer or winter months (sorting and using language). During center time we painted a ski hill, made a skier, cut out rectangles for our igloo, built a snowman with felt shapes, painted ice with watercolors, traced a snowman with paint and painted the inside, cut out white paper to make a paper chain for our igloo, played a snowball challenge game in which we had to balance paper snowballs on paper towel tubes, made icicles out of pipe cleaners and packaging noodles, played the roll and cover game with numbered dice, worked on positional concepts with snowmen and our last names, made snowmen out of playdoh and other materials, built igloos with sugar cubes, cut out snowflakes for our bulletin board,  placed white balls in snowman containers with tongs, jumped over snowflakes and threw snowballs (cotton balls) at each other in gym class. It was also fun to make snow and play with it! We also made a guess at which cup of ice would melt faster....one with salt or the one with no salt. (goals-fine and gross motor, cutting with correct grip and helper hand, number recognition, recognizing name, making decisions independently, contributing as a member of a group, following directions, safe behaviors)

Our dramatic play area turned into a coffee shop with cups, lids, order forms, aprons, coffee pots, Keurig, etc.  The students loved taking peoples orders and making the coffee! (making decisions, taking turns)  Our letter of the week was the letter P for pig, pink and purple! We went over the sound, letter formation and items that began with the letter. We also watched Jack Hartman Letter videos, which we do each week.  Our 2nd Steps lesson worked on three steps to calm down when frustrated, mad or sad.

Books 

All You Need Is A Snowman

The Biggest Snowball Ever

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow

Reminders

No School- Monday, January 19th-Dr. Martin Luther King Day

Friendship Party- Thursday, February 12 at 11:00-all are welcome

Passport Day-Saturday, March 7th -10:00-11:30

Things to do at home-Use shaving cream on a table and pretend it is snow. Have your child use the pointer finger to make letters and shapes.

Enjoy the cute pictures!!

Our arch turned into an igloo.

We drew snowmen.

We decorated snowflakes with pretty rocks.

The students put white balls into snowmen containers
using tongs.

We made icicles out of pipe cleaners and packaging noodles.

Everyone enjoyed playing with our homemade snow!

After talking about a salt truck we did our own
experiment to see which would melt faster.

The hippos had a blast throwing cotton balls at each other.
We pretended the cotton balls were snowballs.

We also jumped over snowflakes.

Art Fun!

Our sensory table contained pretend marshmallows, cups
beans and tongs.

Teamwork

Show and Tell

Show and Tell

Lots of coffee!

Snowman made out of playdoh.

Coffee Shop

We traced then filled in the snowman with white paint.

Snowball challenge-Can you balance the snowball
on the tube?

The kids loved making their skiers go down the snow hill.

Roll and cover the correct number on the snowman.

It was fun to paint ice with watercolors.

Music fun with light savers.

Skating

We used our last names to place them
below, beside, above, between, in front of
and behind these numbered snowmen.

The homemade snow was a fan favorite.

We cut out then hole punched snowflakes for our bulletin board.

The kids made igloos out of sugar cubes.

We made ice blocks for our igloo.

We painted skis and added a head.

We sorted winter and summer clothes.

We matched letters in these words.

We cut out paper chains.

It was fun to paint a ski hill.