A Snowy Week

In Circle time…..

• We acted out the story of The Mitten, assigning each child an animal, and giving them animal mask. Listening closely to the song, they crawled into the “mitten” when they heard their animal’s name. At the end, they all “fell” out because the bear sneezed and burst the mitten.

• Named our shape bean bags and passed them around the circle, listening to musical prompts to speed up or slow down

• Chinese New Year finger play

• Stories

This Week’s Stories

The Snowy Day by: Ezra Keats Sneezy The Snowman by: Maureen Wright

Who Had Jobs?

Line Leaders: Hannah, Henry, Maika,

Plant Helpers: Henry, Maika, Weston

Loft Closers: Maika, Ella, Declan

Art Projects

A Snowy Day: 2 day project

Part 1: Kids used old credit cards to pull white and blue paint across their paper; requiring them to angle their hands and hold the cards in a way that is similar to a mature pencil grip.

Part 2: The kids added “snow;” mixture of shaving cream and glue on top of yesterday’s credit card paiting. Once they had applied snow, they placed Peter and tree on the page.

Sneezy The Snowman

Using the same mixture of shaving cream and glue, the kids created their own version of Sneezy from this week’s story. This project was just plain fun. The focus was having the children recall all the different ways Sneezy melted in the book. Some came up with their own unique answer.

Snowflakes

This was an easel project aimed at introducing positive and negative space. Kids used a spray bottle of white paint to cover a blue piece of paper with snowflake stencils attached. Once enough of the paper was white, teachers removed the template it reveal a blue snowflake. Spray art is a great workout for those fine motor muscles!

Sensory Play

We had a new experience each day this week in our sensory table.

Monday was frozen ice balls with different arctic animals hidden inside. The kids used spray bottles of water to melt the ice and free the animals.

Tuesday was shaving cream, tissue paper, cars, and chopsticks. The kids drove cars through the cream and swirled the tissue paper with chopsticks. After a little while, the color from the tissue paper started to bleed into the shaving cream making pink “snow.”

Thursday was a woodland and forest animal scene.

Action Shots