5 little Snowman!

Today we did a flannel board story about Five Little Snowmen.  Then we decided to act it out.  We practise our subtraction skills as each snowman melts away.  It goes like this:

Five little men all made of snow.

Five little snowmen in a row.

Out came the sun and shone all day.

And one little snowman melted away.

As one of the snowman melts, you change the number in the poem!  Practise at home and have them use objects to show 5-1=4 etc.  

The Water Centre!

The penguin is sitting on an iceberg says one friend.  It is very cold, says another!  Below are the vocabulary words at the water table we are trying to use in the classroom!

It's sooo Cold Here!

Our scientist are exploring cold places in the world such as the Arctic also known as The North Pole and the Antarctica also known as the South Pole. They are using binoculars, magnifying glasses, telescopes, and flashlights to explore the land, animals and water.  Kadence asked for flashlights because it is dark in the Arctic in the winter and they need light to see.  Great thinking!

SNOW!!

Happy New Year!  It's been a slow re-entry into our classroom, with only 5 students on Monday, 7 on Tuesday and 15 on Wednesday.  Even though it was too cold to go outside, the children were able to play with some real snow in our water table and in our sensory bin we had play snow made from flour and baby oil.  We've also had stories about snow!

Our New Centres!

The new centres are very busy today!

Our sensory table is filled with  "snow dough". It packs!  It is 2 cups flour to 1/4 cup of baby oil if you want to try this at home!

Here Haedon is using lummi sticks to make music as she is listening and singing to Christmas music!

Some  friends are playing " The North Pole" here!

Kadence brought in some paper plates because she wanted to make wreaths at school!

Our construction centre is still going on!

Mrs. Hawkins daughter measured the snow on Saturday to see how much snow fell.  The total was 29 cm.  She took pictures and we showed the students.  They were really interested in it so we filled the water table with snow and added some rulers to measure the snow!  

Our Christmas Party!

Thank you to the Mr. McLean and some students at General Amherst High School for a fabulous time had by all!  We decorated cookies, made ornaments, wrote letters to Santa, played pin the nose on the reindeer, gathered reindeer food, listened to a story read by Mrs. Claus and sat on Santa's lap.

Play dough!

Look spheres says Chayse.  I just roll it around on the table to make them.  He asks for a big box so he can roll them around to play a game!  I'm going to make them race.  I have to lift the box to make one side up and one side down......like a see saw.