This is my photo of the month-The snow was almost covering my car! It was a lot of work to dig it out.
Children can keep their February photo with their January photo and eventually use them to make a monthly photo book. (Explained in the January blog)
Activity: How do animals stay warm in the winter:
First you can ask children to brainstorm how humans stay warm in the winter and how animals stay warm in the winter. Write down the list.
Here is my list:
You can then do various lessons representing how animals stay warm.
The blubber experiment (Explained in the Blue Whale Blog) is on example
Another example uses a glove to represent hair and plastic wrap under the glove to represent excess fat.
Activity: Shadows
Children will love looking at shadows during this time of year.
One activity that they would have a lot of fun with is creating a shadow with different materials. For examples if you made different shapes with cardboard boxes, it would create a very interesting shadow. They could take a picture of their shadow or make a video of themselves and their shadow. They could also use an app like My Story to create a story about their shadow.
Shadow Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ne6J0aXvfs
The children could write a poem about their shadow or their shadow sculptures
Here is my shadow poem:
My Shadow
My shadow is so silly
She always copies me
When I run, she runs,
We both sit under the tree
Sometimes she is hiding,
Nowhere to be seen
But when she comes back out,
She's as funny as can be.
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