Snow Much Fun x2

 At the end of January , we had a couple of snow days.  The kids were super-pumped to play outside.  And, as usual, I was ill-equipped to dress them for it! 

 

On Friday, we just got a little dusting.  David said it snowed because he "wish-ed" for it the night before.  The snow was gone by around 10AM, but Claire and David played outside for a good long while and I watched from the warmth of the dining room.  (Fortunately, Luke had school.)

 

 

There was still plenty of sledding despite the lack of snow!

 

On Saturday, I woke up at the crack of down (3AM to be exact) and went downstairs to catch up on a little DVR'd TV watching (and hoping to fall back asleep).  Around 6AM it started snowing hard and we got a nice little accumulation of snow.  Fortunately, Will was home to help with the snow play this time and I just went outside to take a few pictures!

 

There was a lot of sledding.

 

 

Luke got to join in on the fun this time!

 

More sledding ...

 

A little snow sweeping.  Not sure what this was?  Luke just wanted to pull everything out of our garage and play with all of our outside toys since we were outside.

 

 

Pictures with Mommy ... just to prove I was there.

 

And then, Will and the kids built a ginormous snowman!

 

 

As much as the kids love the snow, I am so ready for spring.  (These may be famous last words!)

Almost White Christmas

We had super-cold and generally yucky weather over Christmas break.  We finally got a little dusting of snow on December 29.  We let big kids go out and run around in it for a little while.  They had a nice little snowball fight with the snow piled up on the back porch, cars, etc.

 

 

Will supervised and tried to stay out of the line of fire.

 

Note to self: David needs a new snow hat!  That one is a little small!

Preschool Corner: Letter S-Snowmen and Snowy Day actvitivies

Welcome to our Letter S week.  We strayed a little bit from our regular Letter of the Week activities and focused on a Before Five in a Row literature unit ... The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats.

We still used a few LOTW activities for the letter S, which were snowman themed, but most of our printables and other ideas came from Homeschool Creations this week.

{David is 3 years, 10 months old}

S is for Snake coloring page from here.

We made this awesome lapbook from Homeschool Share.  (Although I don't seem to have any pictures of the finished product.)  For the lapbook, we made a shape snowman ...

Identified the letter S.

Learned about things that are white ... clouds, cauliflower, etc.

Painted glitter snowflakes.

(And other things I failed to take photos of, like sequencing story cards, vocabulary cards from the story and a winter poem.)

Below are some of the printables from Homeschool Creations in action.

Pre-writing/tracing.

Letter S handwriting.

Hot/cold sorting.

Letter S sounds.

Snowflake counting.

Read. Build. Write. mats with vocabulary from the story.  (He was a little young for this, but he did manage to build the words for the most part.  This activity is definitely geared toward an older preschooler.  My kindergartner did enjoy this.)

We made handprint Snowy Day trees.  I love handprint crafts!  Kids are fingerpainting snowflakes around their tree just like the snow fell from the tree in the story.

David's finished picture.

We worked on our counting with these cute Number snowmen.

And, we made snow playdough.  (White playdough with silver glitter.) 

The kids made "sugar cookies" with their playdough and had the cookies on my white cutting board (which is why they are hard to see ... white on white) walking around for everyone to have a "taste".

Our finished project board.  David made a couple of the projects at school and the paper doily snowman is an art project from Claire's kindergarten program (David made one too).

We also covered our RRSP S verse: "Seek the Lord while he may be found."  Isaiah 55:6.

I wanted a close up of this snowman that David drew all by himself.  He is quite the little artist, but he usually only draws trucks and trains.

This post is linked up to these great blogs ... check them out for more great learning ideas!