Snowman, Snowman...

Happy New Year! This new year, we discussed resolutions! We brainstormed ideas of what we would like to learn how to do and what we would like to try to do this coming year.  The students painted bells to "ring" in the new year!

Check out Nicky's awesome writing!

As a class, we are going to try to write our last names on our classwork and projects!  We counted how many letters are in our last name, wrote them, and spelled them out to make snowmen.

Snowman last names!

We discussed seasons and weather too! They had so much fun making a "Weather Wheel" to record the weather at home!  This is part of our daily calendar routine, so they were so excited to create one of their own.

We read several stories about snow and snowmen.  A favorite was Snowmen at Night.  In this story, the snowmen magically awaken and do many fun (and silly) things at night.  The students created their own snowman in a tear art project and wrote what their snowman does at night!

Alison wrote: At night my snowman can make a snowman!
Notice how she used a magic "e" to make the /a/ long! 

We made snow globes with our snowman family inside.  The students made a snowman to represent each person in their family.  They wrote about their family in their journal and added what they like to do together in the winter.

Davis' snowman family!