Transition Song: Must be Santa by Raffi
Note: we aren't singing to the music as we sing slower in preschool. We're singing the first three verses. Ask your child to show you the actions as well.
Materials: Book - Snowballs by Lois Elhert, snow people items (hats, scarves, necklaces, sunglasses, sweaters, etc), laminated Santa, laminated letter S.
Vocabulary and Basic Concepts: snow, snowmen/women/people, snow ball, boy/girl,
baby, bird, popcorn, clothing items, melting, dressing, on top, next to,
behind, hot/cold, What questions, Where questions.
Pre-Literacy: Let's draw the letter S. Start at the top. Swoop over. Swirl down. Swoop under. And stop! What words have the /s/ sound? Soup, sweet, salty (we talk a lot about sweet and salty at Snack Time), sound, silly, soft, Santa, snow, snowman.
This week, Miss Carrie read a book by Lois Elhert called Snowballs.
In the book there is a snow family that have a lot of different items on them. We looked at the pictures and talked about what we saw on the snow people. Miss Carrie asked "What do you see?"
Miss Carrie REALLY wanted to build snow people! She brought hats, scarves, necklaces, sweaters, sunglasses, But we couldn't go outside (it was too cold). We couldn't being snow inside (it would melt). So we had to problem solve: What could we use to build snow people?
We could turn the TEACHERS into snow people! We labeled clothing items and body parts. We discussed who would wear what item. We decided where the hats, glasses, and scarves should go. Look at what happened next...
DO THIS AT HOME: No snow? No problem! Turn family members into snow people. Label the clothing and other items you choose to use. Talk about hot and cold. Label body parts.
Then, make some hot chocolate. (Miss Carrie LOVES hot chocolate with whip cream. She talks about it during Snack Time when we talk about things we like to eat and drink.)
