What to wear in the winter

Our theme this week is Winter Wear. We were very lucky to receive quite a bit of snow, soooo, we brought it inside!!!! The kids think it is the coolest thing to play with snow indoors!

Of course since we are talking about winter wear, we read the books 'The Mitten' and 'The Hat' both by Jan Brett. If you haven't read these, check them out; the illustrations are fantastic! We used some ideas from her website as well at http://www.janbrett.com/ We used the mittens and the animals to re-create the story of 'The Mitten'. The older class was able to lace the mittens together quite well.

For a more creative project the next day, we fingerpainted. Each child had two mitten cut outs. They fingerpainted one of the cut outs with LOTS of paint any way that they wanted. When they were finished, we placed the blank mitten on top of the painted mitten and pressed them together. When we took them apart two matching mittens were revealed!
We had a bit of a fine motor workout today; I have a picture of a bear who is in the snow but dressed in summer clothes. The children colored suitable winter clothes and then glued them onto the bear so he would stay warm. The project 'Bearly Warm' came from The Mailbox magazine Jan 2009.
All of the kids loved our new fingerplay today entitled 'What to Wear' , they had a great time clapping their hands and stomping their feet!
I added mittens and gloves to the Dramatic play center which the kids have diligently been practicing with. The older kids are doing very well with the gloves, while the younger ones are sticking with the mittens!
We also have mitten matching added to the math center. The template for this was found at http://www.prekinders.com/