Snowmen, Snowmen Everywhere

We have been reading lots of snowman books even though it does not snow here in South Ga.  The children love them, and just go along with it just like it does snow here. I did let several of them share their experiences of seeing snow for the others, and Ms. McBee made "snow" for them one day.  What fun.Here are some of the things we have been doing with our snow unit. 

Snowman art made by blowing 3 balloons up to different sizes, dipping them in paint and stamping the paper with the balloons.  You then use q-tips to paint the details of the snowman.  Very cute!

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Snowman Sentences.  We used these sentences to practice finding the beginning and end of a sentence, underling the words in a sentence, and circling the color words.  I put the paper on my Promethean board so that we could work through the sentences together as a group.

 After reading so many snowman books, we labeled the parts of a snowman.  It was lots of fun.  We started out with a hat, then some of them discovered they could used describing words, so from then on we were very detailed.  :-)  We then did the easy snowman writing page.

 The next day after labeling our snowman, we went back and made a tree map on a little bit simpler level for our young K writers.  Some of the students still used some of the describing words from the snowman labeling picture.

Here is an example of the writing we did.  I'm not sure why some of them put a Christmas tree.

 Here is all the work put together, with just a few of our rock star's writing.

Below are the writing  papers we used through out the week.  Grab them if you like below.

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 Since it does not snow in Jesup, Ga......we made a tree map about the things we wear in cold weather.  Below is a sample of our writing from the tree map.  The pictures are from Kids Soup

Snowman Number Match

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Run off on card stock and then laminate to make last longer. Students will match snowflakes, numbers and numbers words. It can also be used as a memory game. 

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There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow

My students enjoyed hearing the story today "There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow".  This book is a great sequencing book and I love to let them make predictions of what will happen at the end of the book.  Of course in this book when she sneezed everything came out and formed a snowman.

 

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After reading the book we made a flow map of the order the events that happened in the story.  The pictures are from my friend, k-crew buddy and teaching pal Sharon McBee.

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 After making the student flow maps we made a class tree map that we used for writing.

 

 Here is a sample of the writing that my students completed using the tree map.  

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 Here is our completed work.  I think they did an awesome job.

Love,

Mrs. Ring

DIY Home Edition Over The Break

I know this is my site for my classroom, but over this last few weeks while we have been out of school, I have been doing some DIY.  We painted, painted, and painted some more.  Then I started on a few projects that were inspired by Pinterest.  Loads of fun.  I have learned that you can Mod Podge just about anything.  :-)  Here are a few of my projects and I can't wait to get more completed!

 The first project I took on after painting was this wall.  I bought the 8x10 canvases from Michael's on sale.  Very excited 40 % off.  I then painted the edges with some of the paint that I used on another wall in the same room (You could use scrapbook paper instead).  I put Mod Podge on the canvas and glued the picture down.  After drying I put two layers of Mod Podge on top of the picture.  Make sure to use Matte so that there will not be a glare.  It also takes on a paint look.  Then onto the words.....My daughter wanted me to use the words from a song called I Promise.  It's a song about adoption that says "I promise to love you for all times" and that "We're part of a plan only God could conceive".  So.....hmmmm what to do?  I decided to type the sentences on my computer and run them off.  After cutting the words out I glued them to scrapbook paper.  The final touch was....you've got it Mod Podge.  The flowers were a little touch to cover up the command hooks.  :-)  I love and think it turned out great!

 Project number 2.  I bought frames with 4x6 holes from Michael's for $1.00 and plaques from Walmart for $.97.  I then sprayed all the "frames" with different colors of spray paint (got to take the easy way out).  I attached the pictures to the plaques with Mod Podge and then covered both the plaques and frames with you've got it.... Mod Podge.  The saying in the middle was purchased from Walmart. "Life is all about making memories"

 Project 3....... light switch covers and plug in covers.  I took scrapbook paper and cut it to just a little bit bigger than the plates.  I then put Mod Podge on the back of the paper and attached it to the plates.  The holes are easily folded in because of the dampness.  You then put two coats of Mod Podge and then when dry spray with sealer.

Now it's back to school, but I'm so excited to see finish all of my DIY and see what I can come up with next.  Believe it or not it saves a lot of money.  :-)