Snow and Ice

We had a COLD and fun week at preschool learning around the theme of "snow and ice"!

The kids practiced their cutting skills by making snowflakes from coffee filters!

We looked at lots of pictures of snowflakes in circle time. They were able to look at these pictures when they made their own snowflakes in the art center.

They loved painting buttons on their snowmen! Together we matched the color of buttons to the same color scarf and hat on each snowman. Not only did this activity help with color recognition, but it was great for fine motor development. They did awesome!

They enjoyed making more snowballs this week on the mitten play-dough mats!

Our letter of the week was I for igloo. The kids enjoyed using dotter markers and stickers to practice their I's and decorate their igloos.

They finished their cute owls this week with handprints. Adorable!

At one of our morning work stations the kids enjoyed matching paint and stickers to the correct written color.

Sensory fun with ICE!! :)

Thank you, Evan, for the icy blue play-dough! The kids loved making snowflakes and riding cars on the "ice" at the play-dough center.

Here we are reading "The Snowman". At the end of the book, the sun comes out and the snowman melts. We talked about how water freezes and becomes ice when it's sooo cold outside. Then we discussed how snow and ice melt when it gets warm. We tied this book into a fun little science experiment.

We put a little water into a container....

....added some food coloring to make it a little more fun :) ...

...and took it outside. We talked about how COLD it was out there, and they made guesses about what would happen to the water.

They were so excited! They all went straight to the window to see if anything had changed yet! HA!

Our "smallest to largest" snowflake chart!

Karsen with her baby! :)

Mrs. Beth made each of the kids 8 snowflakes out of glue. They counted together these snowflakes, and then they each got to shake the glitter onto their papers!! Of course they loved it!

Ha:) He's so excited that he found the matching number!

The class was adorable during music time this week! Their favorite was dancing to the song "Freeze" and then freezing when the music stopped! They got to "FREEZE like ice!!" :)

Towards the end of our preschool day, we checked on our science experiment. The water was almost frozen! The kids all got to feel it and were so excited. (Next week we will observe this same ice and see what happens when we keep it INSIDE this time. Fun stuff;)

Below are some pics from Lunch Bunch this week too...

The kids loved story time with Mrs. Kelly.

They had so much fun making snowmen with their friends! They used toilet paper and dress up items to build their snowmen. HA!

They also had a great time making snow and snowmen with all kinds of fun materials... like toothbrushes, spindles, and marshmallows!

Hope you enjoyed a glimpse of your child's week at school. :) Looking forward to seeing all of them Thursday!