Winter is a great time to cuddle up and share a stack of good story books! Our Library has a limit of 50 items that can be checked out on one card at a time. It is so easy for me to fill that limit! Here's a sample of what we have been reading lately.
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat - By Simms Taback - This is a great story. The cut outs in the illustrations made it fun for the kids and I liked that it showed some frugality and creativity.
I'm attempting to bring more math story books into our reading time. This was our introduction to the Sir Cumference series. I think it will take a little time for the kids to love the series, but I have already seen how it's easier for them to remember the math concepts that were used through the story.
Ants at the Picnic is a counting by 10 book with hidden numbers to find and busy ants carrying off the picnic. Everyone enjoyed it!
Here are some that Little John picked out. "They were cool", he says.
We haven't had much snow this season and we've missed it! So we focused on snow in other ways for the past week or two. These books are some random winter finds, but we enjoyed them and even had some good discussions on being prepared for storms and different weather, as well as helping neighbors, and also how snow can make our world feel so magical. Some of our favorites are -
Blizzard - A story from the authors own experience of a snowstorm that covered everything in 40 inches of snow! Great for talking preparedness, helping neighbors, but also brings in measurements as well as maps!
It Feels Like Snow - Oh so cute! Little Alice predicts the weather with twitchy nose and throbbing toes, but does anyone believe her?
Snow - This little book really captures the pure childlike joy that snow can bring, and how it covers our world with a blanket of magic.
Since real snow wasn't around we made some "snow dough". Some different versions of this are on Pinterest, we used cornstarch and lotion from the dollar store. I put the lotion in the fridge and the corn starch in the freezer the night before and it made for some super cold snow dough! Thankfully it didn't take long to warm up. We had so much fun with the texture and figuring out how much lotion to make it "perfect". We will probably do this again sometime, but I will definitely get unscented lotion when we do!
We also had some sweet fun making snowmen inside.
After all this fun we were happily surprised by some REAL snow!
We had fun. :)
