Our Snowy Days

The children loved listening to the book Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. We made our own class book about what we like to do in the snow and used the same illustrating style of the Caldecott winning book.



We have had a very snowy winter. Not only is the snow outside but there is snow much learning going on inside. In writer's workshop, we worked on adjectives and verbs to write beautiful snowflake poems. We also made a winter word web and wrote poetry about winter. Take a look!

The snow has been deep. In math, we have been digging deep into place value objectives. We have been comparing, building, decomposing, writing, and learning about numbers. Our explorations have included low tech methods and high tech methods...my favorite being combining the two to be true 21st century learners. Of course, with anything we do we like to incorporate fun with the rigor. To practice comparing numbers we used snowballs. We scattered snowballs all over the carpet. Two teams had twenty seconds collect as many snowballs as possible. Then the players counted the snowballs and announced to the class. I had two different sets of snowballs. The plain white were with 1 but if the snowball had a face it was worth 5. All the students all wrote the inequality on their whiteboards. Here is just a taste of our fun.