Mitten Writing

For those of you who haven't been able to see our bulletin board, our mitten writing projects are complete and on display! Over the course of several days, we painted and cut out a big mitten shape, looked through magazines for animal pictures, created a snowy background and glued down our animals under their warm mitten, and wrote a sentence about the animals hiding under our mitten. Some of us were ready to try spelling animal names on our own, some made a good start and got help with the rest, and some of us are more comfortable copying out the word. We all worked hard!

              

Working (and Playing) Hard!

We've been very busy at our centers this week, although the camera was only out for a few of them. This was our first week with Wikki Stix-> we used them to make lots of uppercase and lowercase letters. We also have spent a lot of time with our sight words. We've been focused this week on color words and I, see, and a. 

We spent a lot of time learning with Jan Brett's The Mitten. After reading the story, we learned a song about all the different animals that crawled into the cozy mitten. Just like in the book, the bear gave a big sneeze and we all jumped out of the mitten!

 

Here we are making polka dot mittens to match numbers up to 10:

 

A favorite activity was our story retelling bucket for the book. Lots of stories were told to each other as animals went in and out of our mittens.

We are still working on a writing project with The Mitten.

 Look for pics as soon as we are all done!

ICE!

Thanks to some sprinklers and a big cold snap, we saw a lot of rare Savannah icicles on Wednesday this week! The back lawn at the church was watered, and froze into a field of icicles. They dripped off the soccer goal, covered the bushes and turned all the sticks, pine needles, and even blades of grass into lovely ice sculptures.

We made some pretend icicles in class with microwave puffy paint. Usinga squeeze bottle, we put a thick line of our flour/water/salt mix at the top of our paper. Then we held it up and let it drip into icicle shapes. A few seconds in the microwave and we had a dry puffed up picture!

There was some indoor ice too! Ms. Heather left our blue tub with water outside overnight to freeze, and we had an ice skating center for cooperative play. Our people house family and some penguins all had fun skating on the ice. We had to break out the gloves and mittens for our cold fingers, and got some much needed practice getting these hand warmers on and off ourselves.

We continued our icy centers through the week with ice cubes in our sensory center, creating a polar bear book about position words, making igloos and ice cream cone name pictures for our short and long Ii sounds, and eating ice cream at snack on Friday. 

We had lots of silly chilly fun (and learning)!