Winter Book Basket

Our book basket is filled with winter books right now:

The First Day of Winter by Denise Fleming

The Hat by Jan Brett

The Mitten by Jan Brett

The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett

The Trouble With Trolls by Jan Brett

The Jacket I Wear in the Snow by Shirley Neitzel

No Two Snowflakes by Sheree Fitch

Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright

Snow by Roy McKibe

Snow by Uri Shulevitz

Snow by Cynthia Rylant

Snow Day! by Barbara M. Joosse

The Snow Show by Carolyn Fisher

There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow by Lucille Colandro

The Twelve Days of Winter: A School Counting Book by Deborah Lee Rose

When Winter Comes by Nancy Van Laan

Buzz and Boo love Jan Brett's books, so those were the most popular (The Trouble With Trolls technically takes place in early spring, but it's a favorite, so I threw it in anyway). Buzz also loved both The First Day of Winter and The Twelve Days of Winter and insisted that they be sung instead of read.

Winter Playdough

To go along with our winter unit I made homemade playdough. Boo loves to play with playdough and was super excited to play with some with sparkles in it (I left the dough white and added white gliiter so that it looked like sparkly snow). I used the recipe from My Montessori Journey. The recipe made enough for each of my kids to have a good sized ball to play with.

Winter Sensory Tub

I created a sensory tub to go along with our winter unit

We have:

white rice

irredescent basket filler (Dollar store)

cotton balls

light blue and dark blue flat sided marbles (Michael's)

silver ball thingys (Michael's)

foam letters spelling out WINTER

I gave each of the kids a small bowl and clear plastic tongs and they were off!

The tub was definitely a hit, which is good because I already have one in the works for Valentine's Day.

Winter Fun

For the next two weeks our theme for school is winter! We've got a book basket full of winter books, winter printables printed, laminated, cut and ready to go, and some fun winter activities to go along with it all!

The printables we are using are from Musings of Me and Confessions of a Homeschooler. For Five in a Row we'll be rowing Katy and the Big Snow. I anticipate having a lot of fun with this theme and I'm ready to get back into the swing of things after the holidays, moving and just general chaos as of late. Stay tuned!