A winter post...but where's winter?

Okay, seriously, I have had it with this weather!  Ahh!

For those of you who don't know...I live in Toronto, Canada and, well, let's just say that winter time here "ain't so pleasant!"...every year but this one that is!

Last night we had a mini snowstorm.  It looked beautiful outside but the driving conditions...TERRIBLE!

Today...it was over 10 degrees (Celsius by the way).  What?!?!

So you tell me...how am I supposed to teach my kinders all about winter when it really doesn't feel like winter?  I pulled out some wonderful books and went with that approach instead!
(Who am I kidding, I love milder days, dont' care much for snow!)

Here's what we did in our classroom these past few days.

How cute did these drawings come out?  We made our own winter scene.

We learned about graphing and counted and graphed

Mr. Snowman's clothes.

Okay, I don't know about your class but my students *love* playing games!  So I put out this fun little number...couldn't get them away from this centre!

I posted this as a freebie a while back but in case you missed it you can download your own copy of the

Roll-a-Snowman game here.

Sorry for the poor picture. I realized how bad it is after the fact...but it is a cute activity my kiddies played at another math centre.  They spin the spinner and colour that many snowflakes. 

You can find all of these activities (and LOTS more) in my Winter Wonderland unit on TpT.

As for this week, we have a special Scientist in the School workshop tomorrow (so excited that another person will be teaching my kiddies and I get to have fun learning with them!) and then it's on to Groundhog Day!  We started talking about shadows and our little friend Wiarton Willy.  We will be learning more about him tomorrow and (of course) on Thursday awaiting his big appearance.

I am thrilled to be working with Suzan Linch and other kindergarten teachers from near Washington, D.C. on a Groundhog Day project.  Our kiddies will be predicting and graphing the weather for the next 6 weeks, learning about our two furry friends (the one up here in Canada and down in the USA) and, of course, what Kindergarten class wouldn't be complete without some cute crafts!  I'm so looking forward to hearing what the kinders from D.C. report back!

I'll post the craft tomorrow night...it's too cute!

Happy hump day tomorrow!