Snowmen

How do you make a snowman without any snow?  Today in 4K we found out how.  At one of our independent centers the children visited the website starfall.com.  Here they read an interactive story titled 10 Little Snowmen.   To read the words the children had to click on each one going form left to right, just like reading a real story.  The program then sounded out each word for the children.  After each sentence was read, the children could click and drag different items onto the snowman to decorate it.  I have included the link for you enjoyment at home.http://www.starfall.com/n/holiday/snowman/load.htm?f

At Miss Sue's center the children played a snowman rhyming word concentration game.  Research has shown that children who struggle with rhymes will more than likely later struggle with reading.  To help your child in this area take part in reading and rereading nursery rhymes.  As you read them identify the rhyming words and ask your child to produce more word that rhyme with them.  At this age it is OK for the rhyming words to be nonsense words.  These words are actually more fun.  At my center the children were given a snowball for each letter in their name.  Some children worked on their first names, while others worked on their last names.  The children glued their snowballs onto a piece of paper from largest to smallest.  They then wrote one letter of their name in each ball.  Lastly, they added details to their pictures like eyes, nose, mouth, hat, arms, and of course snow.

At Mrs. Severson's center the children were each given the outline of a snowman, a set of stickers, and a die.  They rolled their die and used one-to-one correspondence to place the correct umber of stickers around their snowman.  Some children are working with one die while others are working with two.  If they had time they decorated their project.