Hibernation & More Winter Fun!

We continued to learn all about winter; enjoying more winter fun. We crafted our own snowflakes by using our cutting skills. We then decorated them by glistening on glitter. All of our snowflakes look different just like real snowflakes. 

We also did a sensory activity where each child had a chance to play and explore with shaving cream. The children shared that the shaving cream was “smooth, “soft,” and “looks like snow.” We then added glue and glitter to the shaving cream. This created a different texture. Next each child received a piece of paper and pressed it down against the table with the shaving cream, glue and glitter, creating their own snowstorms.

This week we read the book The Mitten. We acted out the story by pretending to be the characters climbing into the mitten. 


They had a lot of fun! 

We then did an activity using the animals from the book, as well as some others, to learn which animals hibernate and where. We learned that hibernation is a way that animals adapt to the environment. Animals hibernate to escape the cold. Animals that don’t hibernate are able to adapt to the cold. 

We also sorted which animals hibernate and which animals don’t. 

We played a fun matching game. Each child was given a mitten and they had to find the missing pair. The children had to work together to match all the pairs.

As an additionally activity the children decorated their own pair of paper mittens with the colored ice that we froze last week. As the children painted with the ice they watched the ice melt the longer it was exposed to the warm air.

Song of the week: 

Hibernation Song (Tune: "Frere Jacques")

Bears are sleeping, bears are sleeping 

In their caves, in their caves
Wonder when they'll wake up? Wonder when they'll wake up?
In the spring! In the spring!