More Winter Fun

So way back in January we finished up Ww and Ss themed weeks with winter and Snow activities. Here are some pictures of a few things we did...

I just think they look so cute and so big working their "projects" at their little work tables.
(Garage sale finds...and they have been fun, fun for them.)

 We read books about animals in the winter time and Marin colored and cut out animals to put in an Animal Homes in the Winter poster we made.

She is doing such a great job cutting these days. Love the tongue. Helps concentration, you know.

Hollis had animals to color and cut too. :o)

Glueing her animals in the correct home. She was really cute doing this one! So proud of her work.

This was a cute idea I saw on Pinterest and I thought Marin would love it because it involved Gummy Bears. But she didn't care at all. But the idea...roll the die, count the number of bears out, and place them in the "cave" to hibernate. We really talked about the word hibernate but she would always say "the bear is taking a nappy in the cave."

We miss many things about Chicago but winter is NOT one of them. Since we aren't "playing" in all that snow they are getting up there here in Texas, we made some pretend snow for the sand/water table. It was cornstarch and lotion. Weird combo but it did feel really neat to play with. We even put it in the refrigerator so it would be cold like snow. :o)

Another hibernating activity. Marin did this one all on her own and she was so.very.proud. She cut the brown strips of paper and glued them on the "cave".  Then she colored and glued her bear inside the cave.

So sweet. 

And a non-winter activity but we had to read Where the Wild Things Are for Ww! Fun book. But this was a simple "story mat" math activity. Simple, simple but the girls just cut, counted, and glued the wild things onto the story mats.

Winter Fun

In our little tot school we have been talking about "winter-ish" things. :o) Last week we did Pp is for penguins and polar bears! This week will be Ss is for snowflakes, snowballs, snowmen, etc. Although our weather here is BEAUTIFUL it almost feels like spring (Ss is for spring?!?!). Anywho, we are having fun. 

Both girls love doing handprint/footprint projects. So here is a footprint penguin.
We are really trying to get those letter sounds memorized now. She knows her letters pretty well so now its the sounds we are working on. 

I found an alphabet banner at the Dollar Tree and hung up in our playroom.
Hopefully we can hang up our little alphabet projects under each letter. 

Circling the letters Pp in the collage. Then we talked about all the things that begin with the /p/ sound.

I made a little penguin shape book in my little TpT store. Here the girls are painting a circle penguin. 

Working on the heart penguin...

Here is the heart and square when they are finished.
I tried to flip the photo but it's not happening for some reason.

We started a "salt tray" this week to practice more fine motor skills.
She loved it. Here is her circle.

And her P! 

We pulled out little toys/magnets/objects that began with the letter P and made the /p/ sound (a lot).
We made a little Pp book and chose two objects to add to the book. Marin chose pig and pizza. 

And now for a polar bear craft!! We read a book about playful polar bears and then made a mask out of a paper plate and cotton balls. 

A little Ss week.....

This is our snowman game. We wind up the penguin and let him walk on the snowman numbers. Whichever number the penguin lands on, she counts counts out snowflakes in the ten frame.

Then she counted "snowballs" (marshmallows) on a dice.

This has nothing to do with Pp or Ss or Winter but Hollis made circles on the Magna Doodle. :o)