Playing In Snow, Learning about Snow, Snow, Snow, Snow!!!

For the past several weeks we have done a lot with snow. We have made pictures with a list of clues of something hidden in the snow. The students then drew their animal or object and used an clear, acetate overlay to hide it under snow. The students loved looking at  these and then deciding if they guessed right before peeking underneath. After listening to Snowflake Bentley on Bookflix and learning about how snow is made, the students made snowflakes on-line with the program Make-a-flake (they love doing this), cutting their own snowflakes from paper, and making a crystal snowflake. We do these activities as part of the 100th day to try and get 100 flakes made. We also wrote about playing with our friends and their favorite activities. Codder even brought in snow he had made from a kit. It has been a month of snow! 

Also this month, after learning about Martin Luther King, Jr., the students read and listened to biographies, and then wrote about a person in history. They practiced their typing skills and adding pictures to a document, then presented their biography to the students. I will add another post to talk about our measuring and math!