Roll a Snowman Addition

    We practiced addition with our partners. Students were given a snowman mat with numbers on them. They will given two dice and some two color counters. They had to take turns rolling the dice, adding the numbers, covering up the sum on their snowman, and then recording their addition sentences. They had so much fun playing this game they didn't want to stop when it was time to clean up and share. 

Making Connections with Snowmen

We read Snowmen at Night and then created a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast our class with the Snowmen. Then we made these cute snowmen as art response to our poem Little Snowman.

Snowmen and Text to Self Connections

    We've been working on making text to self connections. We read My Snowman by Deanna Jump, and then wrote and illustrated in our reader's notebooks a time we counted down to something we were excited about.

    Then we read Snowmen at Night and wrote a way we are like the snowmen and a way we are different from the snowmen. Then we illustrated a picture of ourself and the snowmen.

Snowman Estimation

We read A Really Good Snowman. Then we discussed estimation. We estimated how many cottonballs would fit inside a picture of a snowman. Then we put the cotton balls on the snowman and counted to find the actual number. We did this two more times. Then we wrote about what we learnd about estimation.

Snowman Skills

This week we had a lot of fun integrating snowmen into the concepts and skills we worked on. In Language Arts, we read The Smallest Snowman and Snowmen at Night. Then we wrote and illustrated text to self connections. We also read There Was a Cold Lady who Swallowed Some Snow and created a story by writing and illustrating the characters, setting, problem, and solution in our reader's notebooks. We also played a word wall game where students found the word I told them written on a snowman. Then they swatted the snowman with the sun to "melt" him. We sequenced the pictures and sentences from our big book The Snowman. We made paper snowman lanterns to response to our poem Little Snowman.

In Social Studies, we talked about put events in chronological order. We talked about what happens to snowmen when the sun comes out. Then we illustrated a snowman melting. Then students used their pictures to tell the order of events to their partner. We also looked at pictures of snowmen from the books we read this week and talked about the different clothing items they wore. We discussed how those items meet our need for protection from the cold. The kids made an prediction that when the sun comes out, the clothing would probably help the snowman melt faster.

In Math, we read There Was a Cold Lady who Swallowed Some Snow and created a flow map of events. Then we used ordinal language to help retell the story events. We also illustrated and labeled the events from the story using ordinal numbers. We The First Day of Winter and then created snowmen glyphs in Pixie 2 about our winter activities preferences. We also analyzed and graphed our data from the glyphs in Excel as a class. We made and drank Snowman soup. Then we created a flow map of events. We wrote the ordinal numbers interactively and retold the steps with our partner.
There Was a Cold Lady who Swallowed Some Snow

Snowman Soup



January Work

Make a Smilebox photobook