S is for Snowman!

Hooray for the Holidays!  

We started our Snowman-themed day by practicing our handwriting with a worksheet...

On the back of the worksheet, the kids read a story about Sam the Snowman, circling all of the Ss along the way!

During calendar time we read this silly snowman poem...

"The Snowman"

Once there was a snowman

Stood outside th door

Thought he'd like to come inside

And run around the floor;

Thought he'd like to warm himself

By the firelight red; 

Thought he'd like to climb up

On that big white bed.

So he called the North Wind, "Help me now, I pray.

I'm completely frozen, standing here all day."

So the North Wind came along and blew him in the door,

And now there's nothing left of him

But a puddle on the floor!

Poor snowman!

We also talked about Samuel the Lamanite and the signs of Christ's birth.

During music and movement, we sang lots of snowman songs.  While we sang "Snow is Falling," the kids had to dress up as snowmen as fast as they could.  They each had their own pile of snowman clothes...a hat, scarf, boots, gloves, and a (construction paper) carrot nose!

The cutest little snowpeople ever!

We also sang "Once There was a Snowman," and here are our melted snowmen lying on the ground.  

We read Snowmen at Christmas by Caralyn Buehner, and made our own cotton ball snowmen with (more) contruction paper!  Whenever we do an art project, I love seeing how the kids make it their own!  Joseph's snowman is the very free-form fellow on the right!

After snack time, we did some math activities.  We sorted the snowman by the color of their scarves, and made patterns as well...

...put them in numerical order...

...and sequenced them from largest to smallest.

We certainly had fun on our S is for Snowman day!