Building Snow Flakes

so i seen this over here
http://mymontessorijourney.typepad.com/my_montessori_journey/2009/01/snowflake-building-activity.html
and loved the idea
i thought this was prefect for my 4's and now i soon start this with my three next week to see how they do ..
4yr old did great and loved it .

I took one pc white felt (wonder how foam would work ?)

one pc foam

6pack egg carton to us to hold the pcs

I printed the pattern card out and cover them so i can keep them .

This was a big hit ..

Let it snow

Today we made snowman pictures . I cut out a snow man and we put it on blue paper . I gave them a clothes pin and cotton ball to paint with . Then when dry we added eyes nose ,mouth and buttons ..

Dark paper

white paper

white paint

markers

cotton ball

clothes pin

just had to share a give way ! love this blog and Target

http://teachmama.com/2011/01/targets-read-with-me-with-ipad-and-childrens-books-giveaway.html#comment-4153

Thursday Letter of week Jj

Jelly , jam letter Jj .We practice writing some J's then tyred some Jam and jelly on some bread.

Intro of the snow man

So today is our first day of snowman , winter so i wanted to introduce the children to the snow man . Start of easy . Now we do live in Minnesota so most of my children she know about snow man .I used one of my Favorite curr teaching resource "The preschool Calendar"
We did the The snowman trace and color page to see what fancy snowman look like 3 circle hat , gloves .
Then we did the Mouse and the snowman The children cut and glue and put the snowman in order . one ball of snow , two and so one.
Then i did a hand print of the children hands in white paint and put it on dark blue paper. when dry i add black hat ,eyes, nose and buttons. am going to attract the finger play we are doing this month
This little snowman is round and fat.
This little snowman has a funny hat.
This little snowman has a carrot nose.
This little snowman has a frosty toes.
and this little snowman is my friend
please don't melt till winters end .
Form kidsoup.
i think that cute to and you can attract any figure play you are doing for snowman and then the parents will have it all and can sing with the children also .
This first picture is a child took her picture and turn over and trace a new snowman .. very cool.

Number 5

so today i intro the number 5. Older children wrote# 5 and younger ones color a big 5.

We also read "What's it like to be 5" and i had them bring 5 items to circle time to share and count . Also intro the snow pile game That counts 1-5 .

I get most my printable letters and numbers from

http://www.dltk-kids.com/

January Table games fine motor and math games

Let it snow

First am showing you what i use each month to put out this games . I use these plastic container from Strawberry's . Works prefect . I will need to remember to save more next year . After each month i put the belongings in a plastic bag and store with this month curriculum .

2Nd picture is a mixed up puzzles. I cute 6 or 8 of these snowman pictures out into strips and made them into puzzles . Or sequence cards . there is two of each different kind of snowman so they have to put some thinking into it .

3rd & 4th picture is snow piles as they love the tongs i am not ready to put them away . (i still see this at the dollar store in 3pk . ) so this month number is 5 and color blue . so i made snow pile with number writen next to each pile for them to put the snow balls (cotton balls) on 1-5 .

5Th picture is how many ? polar bear to go with are Arctic animals this does go through 1-8 .

I cut out polar bear strips with bears on each one 1-8 and just wrote number 1-8 on each clothes pin for them to match up . Using clothes pin work great getting the fine motor skills working and development . Then we are reinforcing the numbers 1-8 .

Happy January

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