This week in 212 we talked all about snowmen. Our students participated in exciting learning activities all week long with snowmen. We read some adventurous and fun books like Snowmen at Night, The Itsy-bitsy Snowman, and If You Are a Snowman and You Know It. We incorporated snowmen into all of our daily early childhood learning activities.
Students worked on matching and identifying numbers with snowmen, practiced rote counting, and one-to-one correspondence during math activities. Our students also built snowmen with their names working on name/letter identification and matching. One of our student’s favorite story was Snowmen at Night, learning about what snowmen might do when we go to bed each night. Some of our students worked on sequencing events in the story with pictures while the book was read aloud slowly and we took a pause to discuss the silly activities that the snowmen did. Everyone’s favorite part of the book was when all the snowmen fell and acted silly.
Our class also participated in a few fun creative art activities, like building a snowman made out of shapes. Students practiced identifying and matching shapes and then created a snowman made of squares, circles, triangles, and rectangles. Our students also engaged in a fun sensory activity of finger painting with a mix of shaving cream and glue to create a fluffy white snowman. First, our students worked on identifying body parts on themselves: head, eyes, nose, and mouth using tabletop mirrors and then we began to create our fluffy white snowman. Once the students were finished finger-painting their snowman, they created a face and added a scarf, hat, and buttons to the snowman. Snowmen are snow much fun!
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