Enjoy some winter inspiration and the many hands-on ways to explore and investigate with your students!
Winter time is such a busy season with so many wonderful things to do and so today, I am sharing an overview of some of the things we have been exploring in our classroom…
A Special Visitor
We had a visit from Chris at Silly Safari who brought some beautiful animals to share with the children…
Small World Play
Shhhh, be sure to be quiet when walking by our hibernating bears. They are sleeping until spring!…
Having Fun!
Playing a little “I Spy” with our math tokens we have saved this year…
Cooking up some dinner…
Reading with a friend is so much fun…
Exploring the Senses
Brrrr! These icicles are cold on our hands…
How about a little light table geometry…
Building Together
Who has built the tallest or shortest snowman tower?
Science Investigations
What happens when water freezes? ….
What happens when our snowman melts?…
A rainbow of colors in our snow…
Enjoying a Special Snack
A snowman snack…
Recording in a Journal
Documenting our snowman explorations in our journals…
I hope you enjoyed this brief look all around our classroom today! I will be back very soon with more!
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We had planned on bringing some snow in as well! Sadly we had warm then freezing temps and our snow is very icy, so we are hoping for fresh snow soon. Instead we switched gears and ended up amazed. Our class has been very resistant to scissor work and today out of the blue seven kids set at a table on their own cutting paper into pieces. We wanted to scream hallelujah, but we refrained and just celebrated quietly. Then low and behold our one little boy who has been unable to connect with the other boys for play suddenly did today! I needed to share with someone, my husband just didn’t get the significance of that. Not that I would complain about him, he got out of the hospital yesterday and while I was at work the pre-school’s new wooden toy kitchen came and he put it together!
Hi Pam,
So many small victories! What a joy for you and what a pleasure to find here on my wall today! Our snow as all melted but we managed to get in just a few days of snow play before it did. I hope you get a fresh snow too. I love it that your students are finding their own way and you are patiently, and quietly, leading them towards success. And your husband sounds like a real gem – I hope he is feeling better. Here’s to many more small victories to come for you!
I just want to thank you for sharing and all you do! I love all your ideas and it helps strengthen my classroom too. Thank you so much! Your page is my absolute favorite!!!!!
I am so glad that you are finding ideas to inspire you Stacy! We all need to be inspired for sure. Thank you for your sweet comment today!
I have to tell you, I LOVE your emails. My classroom, has been able to benefit in small, and larger ways from seeing what you’ve posted. We pulled snow this week, quite a few times, in differing ways. I made a 3 little bears story box when you posted the pre-made story boxes. Even though, I love being a teacher, I want to be a little child to be in your class. I think as a child, I would have had some many brain synapsis connections, not to mention love and respect as a child. This is coming from someone who doesn’t even know you, just what she sees from your emails. I wanted to give you this feedback, because, I’ve put myself out there on facebook with my art, and people have liked it, not leaving specific comments. Specific comments are so helpful, and when they aren’t there it may be less encouraging.
P.S one thing we did try this year after I saw a video on the computer is, to blow a regular bubble outside when it was really cold to watch the bubbles freeze and break. It was realllllly cool.
Dottie
Thank you for taking the time to leave such a sweet comment. You are right, it does motivate me to know when others are benefiting from my blog and this was wonderful to read today! I haven’t tried blowing bubbles in the freezing cold – I will add that to our list of explorations!
Hi Deborah
Can you tell me what you made your Hibernating Bears bear caves out of, it looks like a great idea we’ve always used styrofoam soup bowls.
These are white tubes we collected from our local Walgreens. Walgreens has been generously saving these tubes for us and we use them for art, blocks, and other types of play in our classroom. They are white, cardboard tubes used in their photo department to hold their photo paper. When the paper is all gone, they throw the tubes away – except now they save them for us!
Have missed your posts the latter part of this week, but more than anything hope all is well with you and yours!
Thank you Victoria,
There are those times when you gotta just put things aside for the family:) Everyone is doing fine and it is nice that I can be free to help as needed!
I love seeing what other classrooms are doing! It is like being in a brainstorming session, so many great new ideas. Thank you for sharing!