We're anticipating some snow in Oz this evening, and my Stars have promised that they'll be wearing their pajamas on backwards, putting ice cubes in the toilet, and sleeping with a spoon under their pillow this evening, just to *make sure* we get a snow day tomorrow. For all non-Alaskans, I've been told it's the magic formula for encouraging snow.
Being ~my~ students, the Stars felt that the creation of a Snow Day Headband would also help our efforts:
The long blue rectangles are the base of the headband, 3 inches by 12 inches long. The pink and light blue rectangles are 3 inches by 4 and 1/2.
The Stars enjoyed painting with Q-Tips yesterday, so we decided to use them as our painting tool again today.
I modeled how to make a snowflake: paint the number one, turn it into a lowercase "t," then add a lowercase "x" across the top of it. Add a dot of paint to the end of each line.
Leftover snowflake stickers helped to dress the headbands up a bit:
For now they're drying, but once we're sure the paint won't drip, we'll wear our headbands for the rest of the day in the hopes that they bring us Snow Day LUCK!
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5:00 pm update: We will indeed have a snow day tomorrow!
The kids and I enjoyed sleeping in, and woke up to a relatively quiet neighborhood... though the spinning tires of our neighbors' cars as non-teachers attempted to get out of their driveways reminded me that I need to give props to Dear Husband again for buying me my Jeep~
Thank you Dear!
Hot oatmeal and crispy bagels for breakfast, coffee for me, hot chocolate for the kids...
Flipping mattresses, washing bedclothes, and baking cookies kept us busy until the urge to cuddle on the couch and watch cartoons overtook us. As lunchtime rolled around, cornbread, bourbon baked beans and sausage appealed, and naptime afforded us the opportunity to clean up the trail of Lego creations, blankies, and stuffed animals that the pre-schooler had deposited down the hallway and into the living room.
Which is when we found this:
I'm certain you'll agree that this puts any and all debate regarding "why dinosaurs became extinct" to rest.
It's obvious they died off because they couldn't manage walking in Spiderman slippers.
The blitzy glitzy holidays are over too, but going cold turkey off of the sparkle and and shine can be a bit of a downer...
My advice?
Keep the silver glitter within easy reach. White paint and light blue paper too.
When your students return to school, review. Review your shapes, review your pencil position (using a paint brush), and review your colors. Review measurement comparisons, small, medium and large, and if anyone asks, tell them you're conducting a "performance assessment" of your students by having them put those sizes in order by painting the three snowy circles of a snowman:
Learn a new poem while the paint dries:
A chubby little snowman had a carrot nose. Along came a bunny, and what do you suppose? That hungry little bunny thought he found his lunch, and down came the carrot, nibble, nibble, crunch!
Draw and cut out an orange "carrot nose" from construction paper scraps. Glue onto the snowman, and then use additional scrap paper to fashion a hat and some twiggy arms:
Eyes and a smile, maybe some buttons or two, can be added with a black marker or crayon... (or find some buttons to glue on!)
Draw some snowflakes and swirl lines, trace with "wet glue" and apply silver glitter and voila! Sparkle withdrawals averted!
(Extra silver tinsel garland can be used as bulletin board trimmer or artwork frames too- photos tomorrow!)
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~ Felt board snowmen can be found over at Ramblings of a Crazy Woman...
The kids and I certainly enjoyed a white Christmas, burnt off extra cookie-calories by shoveling, shoveling and shoveling, and of course the Pre-Schooler made snow angels, climbed "mountains" and made a snowman.
I'll be back tomorrow to show you what else we've been doing and to share links to some nummy recipes!
