Winter Wonderland!

Dear Parents,

We continued our winter unit by making snow globes.  This week the children cut out snowmen, hats, and tore paper to make snow.  We sprinkled snow flakes inside and added a plastic cover to create a fabulous snow globes.

             

We also made our own snow by tearing toilet paper into small pieces, added shavings from a bar of soap and hot water.  We squished and squeezed the mixture together and finally rolled it into balls to make adorable snowmen.

The highlight of the week was when Lenny from creative creatures visited our school with lots of unique animals.  He brought in a flying squirrel, a chinchilla, two snakes, a skunk, a scorpion, and Ally the alligator.  

 

The children all had a chance to hold and pet the animals if they chose to.  We saw the squirrel fly through the air into Lenny's pocket. We also saw the chinchilla take a bath into a powdery substance.  I am not sure who enjoyed the animals more, the children or me.  I actually held the most adorable skunk in my lap for the entire show. I would  have taken him home, but I guess a bird and a dog is enough pets for one household.

We ended the week by doing an experiment on capillary action.  We put red colored water in the first jar, left the second jar empty and put yellow colored water into the third jar.  We then rolled two paper towels into fourths. We put the end of the one paper towel into the first jar and the other other end into the second jar.  We did the same thing with the second paper towel with the second and third jars.  Ask  your child what happened. 

              Red + Yellow = Orange









Love, 
Ms Bonne and Ms. Barbara

WINTER IS HERE!

Dear Parents,

We learned all about the winter season this week.  We now know that it comes after fall.  Some of the things we observed outside, were: it is very cold, the trees have lost their leaves, and the ground is covered with snow.

We celebrated winter by reading Snowballs, by Lois Ehlert. After reading the book, we talked about the different types of snow people we saw in the book.  Each child chose the one they wanted to create.  Some of the children chose, snow dogs, snow cats, snow dads, snow moms, and snow girls.  The children had so much fun choosing among the various items such as raisins, popcorn chocolate chips, buttons, straws and yarn.  They might have eaten some of the popcorn and raisins while they were making their project.

We completed our Snow Family bulletin board by making glittery snow flakes.  
We concluded our week by conducting a science project on static electricity.  Each child was given their own comb which they used to comb their hair and then picked up small pieces of paper.  We then rubbed a balloon several times on our hair.  Ask your child what happened. The children continued the experiment with the balloons by putting them over the heater and watching them levitate over the fan from the heater.

Some other areas of interest:

We ate all our lunch!!!




Notes:

Please send in a complete change of clothes to school with your child.  Make sure it includes underwear, pants socks and shirts.

Please send in gloves, hats, and snow pants.  It is very cold in the playground.

Love,

Ms. Bonne and Ms. Barbara