Snowmen

This week for Large Group, we looked at the pictures in the book Snowmen At Night by Caralyn Buehner.  We talked about the actions that the snowmen were doing at night.  We noticed that they were walking, skating, sledding, drinking "cold" chocolate, swinging, racing, playing games and making snow angels.  We played a snowman game where we were all a different colored snowman.  We counted how many snowmen were standing in our line and when the sun came out, one of the colors of snowmen melted to the ground.  We used our bodies to move like we were melting and as each snowman melted, we used our math skills to figure out how many snowmen were left.  

If you want to read Snowmen At Night at home so you can talk about action words with your child, you can check it out from the local library or there is a reading on YouTube if you search the title of the book.

We also played with scarves by moving them to the beat of the music.  We worked on directional words and prepositions by moving our scarves up high, down low, in front of us, to the side and behind us.  We also danced to the song Shake Your Sillies Out.  We moved our bodies in different ways to shake the sillies out.  We also took turns choosing ways for our friends in class to move their bodies to shake the sillies out.  If we had trouble thinking of an action, Teacher Heidi let us use the GoTalk to make a choice.