The Snowy Day

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The Snowy Day

• Book Introduction - Introduce Title, Author,
  Illustrator and preview what the book is going to
  be about.
  
• Centers - Each center is set up for a
  multisensory approach touching, tasting,
  seeing, hearing and smell
  
• Examples
• Housekeeping has the winter clothing
• Sweaters, gloves, mittens, jackets, caps,
  scarves, boots, socks laid out for trying on.
  
• Art has blue paper and white paint
• Science has ice cubes and shaving cream

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Activities

• For this sensory activity, white paper is taped
  to the floor. Blue foot prints are attached and
  snowballs are laid out (crunched up paper).
  The children are asked to follow the footprints,
  crunching and listening to the crunch.
• Gliding once again blue strips of paper are
  laid on top the white paper and snowballs added.
  For gliding it is a quieter activity and I use
  this for comparison to the crunchy walk in the
  snow.
• For the tree activity, children are given a stick
  and they knock snow out of the tree. The
  cotton will quietly fall. We then discuss the
  three types of snow and how it sounds when you
  are doing each activity.

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Activities

• The children take turns putting on winter
  clothing, hat, scarf, mittens, jacket, sweater
  and boots. Then they reenact the story.
  
• Making a snow angel is one of the favorite
  activities. The pattern is laid on the floor so
  they can see what they are to do. They take
  turns and at the end of the activity we trace
  each childs snow angel and frame it for them.

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Activities

• Retelling the story
• Children take turns retelling the story, using
  the props in the classroom
  
• Book
• Children make their own storybooks
• Pictures on cards
• Using cards from story, children are asked what
  happened first, etc.
  
• Pointing to the words
• Children are asked to point to requested words in
  the book (e.g., snow, tree)

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Sample Daily Activities
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Sample Daily Activities
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Sample Daily Activities
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Week 2 Activities

• Children act out being cold
• Crunching snow
• Gliding
• Knocking snow out of tree
• Snow Angels
• Make snowmen with ice cream
• Cover slide in white, pretend to slide down hill
• Snowball fights
• Stuff snowball in pockets
• Pillows in dramatic play for soft, white, fluffy
  concept.