Wonderful Winter Fun

We got right back into the swing of school this week by doing lots of activities about winter! We learned how to make snowflakes, melted ice-cubes, made snow globes and labeled our winter clothing.

Since we have lots of snow on the ground, we were able to visualize what it looks like outside our windows. We came up with ideas of what we could do outside in the snow and drew a picture using chalk crayons and turning it into a window!

                                     

We read a fun story about a family who lived in a snow globe and had to patiently wait until someone shook their globe before they could go outside and enjoy all the snow. We pretended we lived in a snow globe and came up with some very neat ideas!

            

Learning how to make snowflakes was a blast! Instead of using paper, the students picked out four different colors of tissue paper. They cut them into circles and then they learned how to fold and cut them to make a beautiful snowflake. They put all of their snowflakes in a collage and now our room is decorated with lots of colorful snowflakes!

                                         

We finished our winter unit by reading a great book, The Jacket I Wear in the Snow. We practiced our writing and labeled the winter clothing we wear outside. They are adorable.

     

     

We continue to learn new letters and word families every week as well as work on our sight words and reading. In math we have been learning doubles facts and using our knowledge about numbers to figure out story problems.

During Writer’s Workshop we have been talking about different types of writing, including posters and signs. This week we made a variety of different posters letting people know what we wanted them to do and/or what was important to us. We are starting to become very independent writers and it is so great to see!

Here are some of our posters we have hung around the room

             

            Take my boots off.                             Do not hit and do not tell on friends.

    To role a dice you hold it and shake it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the next couple weeks we will be learning about Arctic Animals (Walruses and Polar Bears) and Penguins. Please continue to read with your child every night and review their sight words with them!