Winter Session is SNOW much fun!

"Oh the weather outside is frightful."....really?  it' sunny and bright!  Not here in our classroom -it's beginning to look like winter!  We've been busy making new friends, learning about penguins, snow, ice, snowmen, the Antartica and more!    We've even had a snowball fight together!

The children have been practicing writing their names, cutting up Christmas cards, doing Penguin math games and journaling.   After one week of classes we have been excited about our new class "jobs" and the routine of the class.   It seems the top two jobs are being the "sweeper" and the "bell ringer"(which tells us its time to clean up!)

At snack time we learn our manners by waiting until everyone is served.  This week we made letters with our pretzels.  Quiet reading time is after snack (OK, we are working on the quiet part) and we have eight children reading!  As our young threes and fours learn the letters and sounds, we will then start learning to read.  Journaling is a fun part of reading time when we tell stories that I record in their journal.   

The children went "fishing" in ice cube water and then tried it with a rubber glove on.  We learned how polar bears, penguins and walrus stay warm in the water...blubber!

What is the Arctic without an igloo!