Winter Mittens

This morning during morning circle we started talking about winter clothes. We discussed the calendar and continued our ABB pattern. The kids read their everyday words. Next we practiced the Sounds Around Town. The kids reviewed the sound brothers and cousins. We introduced vowels and talked about how important they are in words....they are the glue that holds the letters together.

Our story today was "The Blue Mittens" by Rachel Mann. In the story a little girl names Leah was celebrating her birthday. She shared the same birthday with her dad and every year they made a cake together. She wrote her Grandma Rose a letter asking what else her dad liked to do when he was little. Grandma Rose sent Leah a package with blue mittens and said her dad liked to play in the story. A few days later after a snowy night Leah asked her dad to build a snowman. Then the door bell rang...it was Grandma Rose with green mittens for her dad. After reading the story the kids recalled the important events from the beginning, middle and end of the story. We also compared mittens and gloves and share how they are the same or different.

For art today the kids made spray paint mittens. First we picked four different colors and mixed it with water and salt in a spray bottle. Then the kids used all four colors to spray their mittens. When they dried the kids mittens were all different colors.

For writing today we reviewed letters A-G, wrote in our journals and practicing writing sight words. We were so busy the kids had to hurry up and eat lunch so we could head home.