Aah----choo! Poor Sneezy The Snowman is very cold!

Aah....chooo!!!! Poor Sneezy the Snowman is very, very, very cold! What can he do to warm up? He tries drinking hot cocoa, sitting in a hot tub, wewaring warmer clothes, and standing in front of a fire but all these things just made him melt. The kids tried many things to help warm him up and each time he just melted and they had to keep building him back up. Finally they found the perfect idea to make him feel much better at the very end. Ask your child to tell you what worked. To go along with this cute story, we made our own Sneezy the Snowman projects where the kids got to do a reading response to the story where they wrote one idea of how they would melt if they were Sneezy. Then, they got to use a mixture of shaving cream and glue to paint on the paper to be Sneezy's snow. This mixture looked liked melted snow on the paper. Then they used orange, black and brown paper to make the snowman pieces that were left behind in the melted snow such as his carrot nose, arms, eyes, mouth and hat. The projects turned out SO CUTE!! I have them hanging from the ceiling in the classroom. The kids are having so much fun looking at them all! Way to go, K-1!

In math, we have continuted learning about 2D and 3D shapes and this week we are wrapping that unit up with learning about shape patterns. The kids have LOVED this unit and they all have become quite the shape experts! They can name all the 2D (flat) and 3D (solid) shapes while also identifying the ones that can roll, slide or do both. They can tell the differences among the shapes and we have also learned about how many corners, sides and flat surfaces they shapes have as well. While learning about all these shapes, we have also been working on learning the positional words such as: in front of, behind, next to, above, under, etc. We have been learning A LOT in math and I am so proud of how quickly they have mastered these new math concepts! In literacy today, the kids had so much fun playing a few phonics games with a partner. It was so fun walking around and seeing how well they were finding pictures with the sound they rolled and their strategic moves to try to win the game! Way to go, K-1!

It's been a fun week back at school! I sure missed my 18 kinder friends over the LONG break! It was so fun greeting them all on Tuesday and seeing all their adorable, excited faces and sharing lots of snuggles! Have a great weekend, everyone!

What would your snowman do at night?

In class this afternoon, I read the story, Snowman At Night, and we did a fun activity to go along with it. I asked the class to write a sentence or two about what they would do if they were a snowman and came alive at night just like the ones in the story! I was so PROUD of all of their wonderful writing and how well they placed their words on the lines correctly. They are all growing as writers and it's so fun to see! After they finished writing, we did a little snowman art project above it that included ripping paper and gluing it on paper to create the snowman's face and various other steps following my step-by-step directions. Their snowman projects turned out amazing and we had so much fun looking at all of them when the class was finished! They were all so excited about how they turned out and I was so excited to hang them in the hallway for all of Olive to admire! Way to go, K-1!

Here are some pictures of the class with their finished projects and some of them up close:

Hanging with my snowmies!

With it being the month of January and the weather getting colder and snow beginning to fall, we have been doing a lot of activities in the classroom with snowmen. I am absolutely amazed with all they are learning in my classroom and each time I hear them read or write in their journals, I tear up with so much joy! I can't believe what wonderful readers and writers they are becoming! Today, we made the CUTEST snowman project with their names. They each received a piece of paper with a snowman face and circles on it. In each circle they wrote a letter of their name ensuring that their name began with a capital letter and the ones that followed were lowercase. Next, they cut out all the circles and they glued them on a blue piece of paper to create a snowman with their name. Their favorite part was adding all the fun detail to their snowman and the background. They had so much fun making their snowmen today and it was fun walking around the classroom to see all the smiles and joy they were having in their learning today! Here are some pictures that I took of the finished snowmen. I hung them up in our kindergarten hallway for all of Olive to enjoy! Each time we walk in and out of the classroom, my kindergarten friends have so much fun finding their snowman and looking at all the ones their classmates made. It was such a fun project to make today!