Fun Friday! Winter Crafts

Torn paper snowmen

Today is fun Friday!  This week I decided to post some of our winter crafts and art projects.  I didn't post these before and they are so cute I didn't want them to get forgotten in my dusty picture files ;)

Our art display line

Our hand print tree and snowmen glyphs from (Deanna Jump)

snowmen glyphs

The kids do the entire project by themselves.  I don't do any prep work.  I love doing art projects this way because they all turn out completely different and they are working on cutting, spacing, gluing and creativity skills.

syllable snowmen (Kai-son) 2 syllables equals two parts to the snowman

Penguins with hand print feet

March of the penguins.  The kids chose a emperor penguin or a macaroni penguin.  They wrote the name or beginning sound of the name on the belly of the penguin.

Rainbow, rice, red "R"

We do a sensory art for every letter. 

soft fluffy penguins

 

Macaroni penguin

This penguin was created during "free art", the child went to the art center and created this penguin completely on her own.  This is creative learning at it's best!!! 

I hope you all had a great week and have a fun filled super bowl Sunday!!  I will post some more fun science activities tomorrow for "Science Saturday"!! 

January/Winter Math and practical life "Works"

 March of the Penguins

Winter is actually here for real!! We had a little dry spell but now we have snow to prove it. Here are pictures of what is on our shelves right now. I am just posting our new winter works that are out right now. We are learning about Antarctica, Penguins and Snow. Living in Montana, this is one of my favorite units to teach. There is something to teach in just about every standard and they are all fun!!

 

Our Penguin sensory box was a huge hit!! I used floam, jewels, foam snowflakes and small pebbles. The kids had a blast recreating thier own Antarctic scene.

"March of the Penguins"

Penguin colonies

For Math this month we are working on shapes, one to one correspondence, AB and AABB patterns and sorting shapes. 

One to One correspondence "counting snowballs"

Matching snowballs to sandpaper numbers

Snowflake AB patterns

Shape pattens

Pattern block math

Snowflake sorting

Winter eraser sorting

AABB button patterns

Snowman counters and snowball counting

Mitten adding with mitten counters

Math links

Pouring into 2 cups, sifting flour, sweeping into a dustpan, lacing, pinching, scooping and cutting are all the practical life activities we are working on.  Most of the kids have mastered pouring, which is exciting at such a young age.  Sifting flour was a great activity to teach self control and control of space.  Only a few of the younger children are still enjoying the pinching and scooping works.  Sweeping crinkle paper into a dustpan was fun to watch the kids be "allowed" to make a mess and to see how easy it was just to clean it up. 

Snowman pouring into two cups

Flour sifting.  They have to find the foam snowflakes and jewels.

"sweeping snow" crinkle paper into a dustpan

Pinching porcupine rings

Scooping "ice cream"

Pouring

Snowman cutting curves practice

Name lacing beads