Sunday, January 17, 2016

Snowmen

On Tuesday we heard the book Snowballs by Lois Ehlert.  It is about a snow person family.  There is a snow mom and a snow dad as well as a snow boy, snow girl, snow dog, and snow cat!

After we heard the story it was time for us to try and create our own snowman.
We have such great artists in our class!!  The kids had so much creating their own snowman.  While we were working on them we fit in concepts like small, medium and large as well as counting and fine motor work!  We learned the song

"I'm a little snowman short and fat, 
here is my pipe and here is my hat. 
When the sun comes out I like to play
then I slowly melt away!' 

See if your child can sing it at home and make sure to ask them to show you the actions that go with it!  (It's sung to the tune of  I'm a Little Teapot)

We planted an amaryllis in class today.  It will be fun to watch it grow over the next few weeks.

Tannar was our "Maple Leaf" this week.  On Tuesday he brought in the poster about himself and shared it with us.  He also was line leader, calendar helper and frog feeder!  On Wednesday his mom came in and shared a really cool story with us.  It was an interactive book about color called "Mix it Up".  The kids loved using their hands to help create coloring mixing magic in the book!  In case anyone is interested...here is a link to the book Mix it Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-jPNqQzc2Q by Tullet

After we heard the story it was time for us to mix our own colors.  Tannar's mom brought in marbles and tin pans so we could marble paint.  The kids loved this....it kept their attention for a really long time!
Doing just one painting wasn't enough...most of the kids made 2 or 3 marble paintings!

Thursday was pajama day and Tannar's birthday!  Everyone looked so comfy in their pj's! During circle time,Tannar gave us clues to guess what was in The Mystery Bag.  Then, we had a special snack of homemade banana-chocolate chip-strawberry bread with hot chocolate and marshmallows. YUM!!!

  We sang Happy Birthday to Tannar!
Thanks for the delicious birthday treat Tannar.  Happy 4th birthday!





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