It seems since Christmas break, we have grown so much, not only taller, but smarter too. This winter season we have learned about snow, ice, and the arctic animals. We continue to realize just how special we are, especially to Jesus.
Minds in motion room activities
No one's fingerprints are just like mine.
Our addresses are important, just like our families.
A friendship web. You could only pass to another friend if you said something nice about them.
The second half of the year we are working on our last names. We are tracing them with different colors.
On the theme Unique Me we talked about feelings. These are our happy, scary, and afraid faces. So much fun.
Each one of us was measured to see if we were as tall as the Emperor penguin, and guess what we all were. It seems as we all grew over Christmas break.
White shredded paper makes terrific snow for the winter animals.
We discussed the footprints of various kinds of animals before we had our own homework paper to do.
Taking a polar bear walk.
Stringing cereal to give to the birds. One of my students said, "They've all gone south because no birds are eating mine.
He was putting the icebergs in sequence.
We added salt to the ice and the road salt for an extra boost to melt it faster.
These three girls weren't a bit afraid of the frozen hand :)
Sensory table play
Ice painting
A chunk of ice sprinkled with salt and then covered with water colors. Magnificent colors
These bottles were filled with beads that had letters written on them.
Children were given an ice cube in a baggie with an object in it. The race was on to see who could get the object out first by melting the cube. We tried holding it up to the light.
We tried the warmth of our hands.
We even tried blowing our warm breath into it. All great ideas!!!!!!
Naming the sight words on our snowman sentence strip.
Crushing up the ice cubes (solids) before we added the liquid cherry stuff.
Eating our yummy snow cones we made.
