January 3rd – January 6th
Welcome back to school. I hope you have enjoyed time with family, friends and had some time to get outside to play in the snow.
We will be talking about snow, snowflakes and snowmen in the next several week. We will have songs, poems and stories about cold weather and snow. I love that the children have had a chance to see actual snow…and maybe had an opportunity to make a snowman.
This week will continue to be sunny and very cold. We will be making ice sculptures in class. If you have anything you would like to add to your hanging sculpture please send it to class with your child. The ice sculptures can hang outside a window and you can watch as the sun shines through the ice and reflects on the items in the ice sculpture.
At home you can talk about ice, cold, water, snow and warm clothing.
Winter Songs and Poems
It is Snowing
It is snowing, it is snowing
All around, all around
Soft and pretty snowflakes
Soft and pretty snowflakes
On the ground, on the ground.
Snowman
I’m a chubby snowman short and fat
Here is my broomstick and here is my hat
When the sun come out and shines all day
I just start to melt away….
Oh no I’m a puddle!
Baby Beluga
by Raffi and Debi Pike
Baby Beluga in the deep blue sea,
Swim so wild and you swim so free.
Heaven above, and the sea below,
And a little white whale on the go.
Baby beluga, baby Beluga, is the water warm?
Is your mama home with you, so happy.
Way down yonder where the dolphins play,
Where they dive and splash all day,
The waves roll in and the waves roll out,
See the water squirting out of your spout.
Baby beluga, baby Beluga, sing your little song,
Sing for all your friends, we like to hear you.
When it’s dark, you’re home and fed,
Curl up snug in your water bed.
Moon is shining and the stars are out,
Good night, little whale, goodnight.
Baby beluga, baby Beluga, with tomorrow’s sun,
Another day’s begun, you’ll soon be waking.
Baby Beluga in the deep blue sea,
Swim so wild and you swim so free.
Heaven above and the sea below,
And a little white whale on the go.
You’re just a little white whale on the go
Mitten Song
Thumbs in the thumb place, fingers all together.
this is the song we sing in mitten weather
When it is cold it doesn’t matter whether
mittens are wool or finest leather
Thumbs in the thumb place fingers all together
this is the song we sing in mitten weather.