Winter Clothes

To begin this week we will continue to focus on winter clothes.  Today our read aloud was titled Froggy Gets Dressed.  Rambunctious Froggy hops out into the snow for a winter frolic but is called back by his mother to put on some necessary articles of clothing.

One item of clothing that we tend to wear in winter is a sweater.  For one of the independent centers the children went on a sweater search.  I hung sweaters around the classroom.  Each sweater had a matching capital and lowercase letter written on it.  The children had a clipboard and recording sheet that they used to keep track of which sweaters they found.  For the children who know all of their letters I glued three pictures on the sweater.  They listened for the beginning sound of the pictures and recorded the letter that they started with.

At my center the children cut out a jacket.  We worked on making the connection that jacket starts with J,j.  The children then cut out a circle face and drew facial features on it.  Lastly, they used pom poms to make a pattern and glued them on for buttons.

We did not get to make our hat graph today, for I am waiting for the laminated animals to come back from the district office.