We read "The Mitten" and watched a Power Point Presentation of the book on the computer.  We discussed setting, character, and plot and made a tree map of the story.  We then made a fun flow map of the sequence that the animals got into the mitten.  As you can see, the mitten was rather large by the time they were all inside.
Of coarse we had to make a pattern necklace!  This one had a little snowman made from buttons!  We're getting quite good at making up our own patterns now!
What fun!  We had a snowball fight.  We had to use paper snowballs since we don't get snow here in Louisiana!  The object was to have the least amount of snowballs on your team's side of the rope!
Even with the pattern that Mrs. Cook gave us, this was a challenge.  The paper was kind of thick to cut through, but the snowflakes still turned out very pretty!
We had to estimate how many cotton balls it would take to cover the snowman and write the number on the back.  Then we had to glue them on and check how close we were to our estimates!
Mrs. Shannon came and shared a few winter stories with us.  She also took the time to make us this cute counting snowflake snack!  As you can see, we REALLY enjoyed the snack!
We talked about the weather in Louisiana and why we don't see very much snow.  That led into a discussion of the different states of water.  We then made a Louisiana Snowman in a baby food jar.  We filled the jar half full of water and added wiggle eyes, 2 sticks, 1 mini carrot nose (slender triangle cut from fun foam), 1 little black hat (cut from fun foam), and a little red scarf (cut from scrap fabric).
Mrs. Jennifer made us this cute snowman for our classroom!  It's the next best thing to Frosty the Snowman! (pictures will be up soon!)
We did a cute little unit on polar animals, but really got caught up learning about
We listened to a song about penguins and put all that we learned into a circle map. We also made a double bubble map of how penguins are alike and different from birds.  Then we made these cute little shape penguins!
We sang a few penguin songs and had a penguin waddle relay!
WE traced our shoes on black construction paper and measured the length of our shoes.  We talked about whose shoe was longer, shorter, equal!  Then we made them into cute little penguin keepsakes!
What's a penguin theme without a penguin snack?
Yet another pattern necklace.  I know we make a lot of them, but we sure know our patterns!  (And look how cute!)