Cookies and Pajamas

Our two days before winter break were much anticipated. On Monday the children measured, poured, stirred, whisked, mixed, and blended up some butter, sugar, vanilla, eggs, flour, etc. to make sugar cookie dough.  It was left to refrigerate for a couple hours, then taken out, rolled flat, and cut into shapes. The children also sifted […]

Winter Celebrations

The children were on the go, gliding over the packed snow as they pulled friends in sleds all around the yard.  We made rainbow snow all over the playground by spraying colored water wherever we found nice white patches of snow.Monday students did some winter night pictures by using pastels on black paper.  We tried […]

Winter Lights

We worked on balancing while maneuvering over the icy ground. Sleeping beauties were gliding across the ground, pulled by their trusty companions.  Sled trains and dump trucks were pulled and pushed over the ice and snow.  Bird seed scattered for the birds was collected and redistributed to various parts of the yard.  Rainbow snow was […]

Books, Books, and More Books

Sledding, sliding, skating, shoveling, and snowballs were the highlights of our snow play.  We had a few days of perfect snowball making snow, so we rolled up some snow to build Fuzzy the snowman with fancy stick hair.  We pulled friends in sleds, built a snow castle on the picnic table, observed snowflakes that fell […]