The Mitten

We had more winter fun this week.  Jan Brett's version of The Mitten is one of my favorite stories.  The kids had so much fun reading it.  We were predicting what animal would go in the mitten next using the clues Jan Brett left for us on the page before...during art time we worked on sewing our own mittens with yarn and construction paper.  Then we put the animals in the mitten so the kids could retell the story at home.  We sang a song called "The Mitten in the Snow" sung to the tune of The Farmer in the Dell.  We used our class parachute and pretended it was a mitten.  Then each child pretended to be a different animal and we crawled into our mitten.  It became very crowded...just like in the book.  When the bear sneezed...we all had fun tumbling out onto the carpeting.  We used our parachute for other fun games this week too! 

Our Northern Lights...Beautiful!! (We've had several kids home sick so not all of the projects are in this picture.)

Addy brought in our snacks this week....thanks Addy!!

Henry was Maple Leaf of the Week.  On Tuesday he was helper and brought in his poster and told us all about his favorite things.  On Thursday his mom came in to visit with the class.  His mom is a dentist so we learned all about our teeth and how to take care of them.   Thanks Henry and Dr. Jen for helping make our week so special!!

Dr. Jen asked Henry to be her patient.  She told us what dentists are looking for when they check our teeth.  She also counted Henry's teeth!

We all had a chance to floss giant teeth made out of marshmallows!!

Dr. Jen and Henry brought in a dinosaur puppet with big teeth.  We were able to brush them!