January ~ Wrapping up Winter

During the month of January, our Kindergarten theme was Winter.  The students enjoyed learning about animals in winter and having fun with snowmen and snow activities!  These were the topics that our reading and writing activities centered around.

We worked together to create a web of "Animals in Winter".  The students enjoy referring to this web when doing their winter writing.  They also love to use these animal names to write for our "write the room" activities. 

We read the story, "The Mitten", by Jan Brett.  Many sequences activities go along with this fun story and we wrapped up the week by watercoloring our own mittens. 

A winter favorite is, "Snowmen at Night", by Caralyn Buchner .  My Kinders always have a few giggles about these silly snowmen.  We used our Mr. Sketch markers to create a chart of all of the events from the story.  The students used our chart to get ideas for their own writing.  

Labeling is one of our weekly writing activities. We take time in January to label a snowman and write sentences to go along with it.  We always "butter" our popcorn words (use a yellow crayon to highlight our sight words).

 The class worked on fine motor and listening skills to create these two fun snowman crafts that decorate our classroom!

Adjectives are always fun in Kindergarten.  They loved coming up with words to describe snowmen. Another one of our fun anchor charts.  Anchor charts fill our classroom with meaningful texts that the students refer to often. 

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