Tuesday Among the Trees, December 6th

The day that...

it snowed for the first time.

This morning the students who were ready first got to go outside while we were waiting for everyone to get dressed.  We played in the snow. We threw snowballs and made snow angels.

Engaged Eastern Redback Salamander was our fire chief today.  He helped Mrs. T start our fire and helped call the fire department at the beginning and the end of the day.  We call the fire department to make sure it is okay for us to have a fire.  We call at the end of the day to let the firefighters know our fire is out.

Wise Woodpecker and Brave Barred owl are filling the bird feeder.  

We made a little sledding park so we could slide and we slid down it.  Brilliant Box Turtle is sliding down. Reliable Racoon, Bubbly Black Bear, and Eastern Newt are there too.  

Responsible Red Fox is playing with some of her friends.  They are making a big snow man.

In one station we matched equations to five frame cards.  Eastern Newt and Balanced Blue Jay are holding up cards that match.  Eastern Newt's card shows the five frame and Balanced Blue Jay's card says  4 + 1 = 5!  Wise White Footed Deer mouse is holding up a matching pair, too.    

In our other station today we read a story.  After we read, we followed the movements of the story.  We walked with our toes in and we walked with them out.  We made snow angels, too.  We dragged a stick to make a trail.  We pretended to climb mountains and stood on a rock.  We smacked the snow off a snow covered tree.

  Here we are warming our hands by the fire.  It was 39 degrees outside today.

Some of us stayed outside to eat lunch.  After lunch we had a snowball fight.  

Reliable Raccoon and Eastern Redback Salamander brought snow balls in from outside like the boy in our book.  They melted just like in the book!