Friday, January 9

At circle time we all sat together on our imaginary toboggan and sang a sledding song shifting back and forth and falling off our toboggan as we went down the hill. The falling down was every one's favorite part. We heard the story, "The Mitten," using a real mitten as I narrated the story about Nikki, a boy whose grandmother knitted him special white mittens; he lost one in the snow (after grandmother warned him about being careful with his new mittens.) Many shivering animals tried to pile into the mitten. Ask your child, "Who sneezed and blew everyone out of the mitten?" Nikki was relieved to find the mitten before he returned home to grandmother. We then painted with a paint/glue combination to create snow pictures.