Week 1
Books This Week:
Books This Week:
Good Night Baby Bear
Stella: Queen of the Snow
Concepts This Week for Unit:
-Winter Homes/Habitats
-Winter Clothing
-Migration/Hibernation
-Winter Safety
-Signs of Winter (Seasonal Changes)
Small Groups For This Week:
Story Sequencing- After reading Good Night Baby Bear, we will recall the events in the story.
Then each child will cut and glue the pictures from the story in the correct order from the story.
Then each child will cut and glue the pictures from the story in the correct order from the story.
Art- We will color a picture of Stella( the character from our book). Then we will use epson salt
on blue paper to look like snow. When it is dry we will put Stella in the "snow storm".
on blue paper to look like snow. When it is dry we will put Stella in the "snow storm".
Salt on Ice Experiment- We will predict what will happen to an ice cube if we put salt on top of it.
After we predict what will happen, we will put salt on top and watch. Then we will draw a picture of
what happened and talk about why.
Snowflake Letter Game- We will be flipping snowflakes using spatulas in a uppercase/lowercase letter
identification game. We will be identifying snowflakes by either visuallly identifying or identifying by
the sound the letter makes.
After we predict what will happen, we will put salt on top and watch. Then we will draw a picture of
what happened and talk about why.
Snowflake Letter Game- We will be flipping snowflakes using spatulas in a uppercase/lowercase letter
identification game. We will be identifying snowflakes by either visuallly identifying or identifying by
the sound the letter makes.
Handwriting Activities
Letter / Handwriting Small Groups (Letters this week are D, B, and P)
Letter Activity: We will learn what these uppercase and lowercase letters look like.
We will sort magnetic letters into groups of uppercase and lowercase groups for each letter.
We will hunt for them in our names and the names of our classmates.
We will hunt for them in our names and the names of our classmates.
We will use crayons to hunt for them on our papers.
Centers
Art Table: Snow Tissue Paper Window
Block Area:blocks with bears to create caves
Sensory Table: Ice Treasures (Trying to get toys out of blocks of ice)
Book Area: books about weather
Easel: colored ice to paint with
Writing Table: writing shopping lists for winter clothes
Dramatic Play: Igoo: A tent with a white sheet over it with a white tunnel to climb through
Puzzles and Manipulatives: matching different mittens
Songs, Word Play, and Language
-SNOWY (A version of Bingo) "There was a day when we were cold and snowy was the weather."
-Stella Ipad App
Week 2
Books This Week:
Stella: Queen of the Snow
The Mitten
Concepts for the Week:
-Winter Equipment
-Manners
-Melting(how do objects melt)
-Signs of Winter (Seasonal Changes)
Small Groups For This Week:
Sequencing 3 and 4 pictures to tell a story about a snowman. (ie. First building a snowman sequence, the sun came out, next the snowman melted sequence)
Sorting Animals- We have been discussing the concept of hibernation and migration. We will sort these animals in our small groups.
Math-Subitizing how many(this the concept of looking at a set of objects and knowing how many there are without counting) We will have a race to see if 2 or 3 will win. A teacher will show 2 or 3 objects quickly then the children will have to say 2 or 3 then record their results.
Snow Syllable Book- We will be tapping out unit words with sticks then writing how many sounds we ear in each word to create a book
Snowflake Letter Game- We will be throwing snowballs (white pom poms) to label letters in our small groups. We will try to get our “snowballs” in the right letter buckets based on the letter we need to find.
Sorting Story Animals- We will be looking in our unit book The Mitten and sorting animals in the story and animals not in the story.
Handwriting Activities
Letter / Handwriting Small Groups (Letters this week are B, and P)
Letter Activity: We will learn what these uppercase and lowercase letters look like.
We will sort magnetic letters into groups of uppercase and lowercase groups for each letter. We will hunt for them in our names and the names of our classmates.
We will use crayons to hunt for them on our papers.
Centers
Art Table: Ice water color painting
Block Area:blocks with bears to create caves
Sensory Table: Ping Pong Balls(We will be searching for top, middle, and bottom parts to make a snowman)
Book Area: books about snow
Easel: colored ice to paint with
Writing Table: writing shopping lists for winter clothes
Dramatic Play: Snowball Contest (points for throwing snowballs(paper balls) into buckets to get points)
Puzzles and Manipulatives: matching different mittens
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