Boots!

We started the day with geometric shapes in the Pool.  The kids were making patterns, identifying shapes, and using the different colors to "mix" colors and make new colors.

Today Ms. Laura came to have music with us.  We sang our hello song, and then played the bells, shakers, and drums.  We learned about staying on the beat, and Ms. Laura asked us what clothes we wear in winter to keep us warm, then we shouted those things while playing the beat of the syllables on our instruments.  Next, we each got a pair of different colored mittens, and Ms. Laura sang "If Your Mittens are Blue, say YAHOO!", "If Your Mittens are Red, say I LOVE TO SLED", and "If Your Mittens are Yellow, say MARSHMELLOW!".  It was super fun.  Then we closed our eyes and Ms. Laura handed out a surprise - colored scarves.  We danced to "Let It Go" from Frozen, and flew around the room, spun, and waved the scarves over our head.  We then sang about a song in our tummies, our heads, our noses, our bones, and our hearts, and what those body parts would sound like.  Ms. Laura then helped us learn the words to the "Bright Light" song.  It's about how we are all bright lights, perfect just the way we are!

Our book today was Boots by Anne Schreiber.  This is a short story about a little girl who is putting on all her winter clothes to go outside at school and play.  She puts on her boots, her sweater, her hat, her coat, her mittens, her scarf....and then we she's finally all ready.....the teacher says it's time to come back inside!

For language circle we made a list of all the different winter clothes that we could think of.....some from the book, and some that we just thought of on our own.

During art, we took snow boots and colored them.  Once they were glued on a red paper, we added some "snow".  We mixed shaving cream and glue to make a fluffy white mixture that looks a lot like snow.

Everyone is hoping for some snow soon!!  All this talk about it, hopefully we will see some this winter!