Hi Moms, Dads and Special Grownups,
This week we have been continuing or Wintry explorations.
On Monday and Tuesday we read Grandmother Winter, by Phyllis Root. The beautiful wood block illustrations are by Beth Krommes. Grandmother winter has a snow white flock of geese that are quite magical. Grandmother collects their feathers and sews them into a big fluffy quilt. When it is time for Winter to begin, she shakes it. Magically, it begins to snow! The children really liked seeing where all the different animals went to snuggle in and stay warm when the weather turned cold. For our project the children made portraits of Grandmother Winter's pet geese.
We used some white crayons to draw a swirly snow storm. We found out that if you draw on white paper, with a whit crayon...it's invisible!!!
One of our friends decided they wanted to make a goose prince!
On Wednesday and Thursday we read Snowballs by Lois Ehlert. The friends in this story don't just make snow "men," they made a Mom, Dad, girl, boy, baby, cat and dog... a whole family! During circle time we sang lots of Winter songs and talked about the kinds of creatures we could make out of the next big snow. We thought about different things that we could use to decorate our snow people. We plan to look for things that could be treats for our animal pals. We all got together and made a large mural painting of a blizzard. We used lots of frosty colors with our brushes first, then we used our paint combs to make stormy textures. We will be cutting the mural up and using it for the circles and some snowflakes we need to make our snow friends next week.
On Friday we read In the Snow, by Peggy Collins. After we made magnificent snow people out of Model Magic. They came out sooooo good! We can't wait to play with Model Magic again. Squishing days are always the best!
We closed our week with our Shabbat service. Thanks to Gemma Young, Jonnah Berger and Miss Sophie for saving our Challah from a hungry Mr. Noah!* Remember there is no school on Monday for the Martin Luther King Holiday.
Have a restful weekend and Shabbat Shalom!
Ms. Terri and Ms. Julia
1 comment:
Oh My Goodness! This is such a lovely treat to find, and I know it is old - but the snowmen are wonderful, and model magic is one of our favourite things to play with!
-Peggy Collins
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