I admit I played a small trick on my precious little kindergarten class yesterday. We read a wonderful book about a snow day titled "The Snowy Day" by Anna Milbourne and Elena Temporin. After the reading, I told the students that we would try to bring some snow to New England by building snowmen. Well, it worked. Of course, I knew we had a storm predicted but, I'm sure it's exciting for the students to think they had a part in it all! This is the view out my back window this morning. Not the 4- 8" that was predicted, but a nice manageable coating of the gorgeous stuff.
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| I think these two suffered from warm temperatures and melted a bit |
Using model magic, students practiced rolling balls in their hands, not on the tables to create a two ball snowmen. This was stacking in 3D! I had pre-dipped toothpicks in orange paint to make carrot noses and cut some small twigs off of the trees outside my classroom to create the arms for their snowmen. Colored model magic was twisted to create the scarf which serves as a reinforcement for the joined areas and also a hat. Students created hats in their own methods. I had demonstrated how to roll the clay into a cone for those who were interested. As is true of all young student works, they are adorable!
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| Students used black fine point markers to add their own faces and buttons |
I admit I played a small trick on my precious little kindergarten class yesterday. We read a wonderful book about a snow day titled "The Snowy Day" by Anna Milbourne and Elena Temporin. After the reading, I told the students that we would try to bring some snow to New England by building snowmen. Well, it worked. Of course, I knew we had a storm predicted but, I'm sure it's exciting for the students to think they had a part in it all! This is the view out my back window this morning. Not the 4- 8" that was predicted, but a nice manageable coating of the gorgeous stuff.
Hi Kim
ReplyDeleteWhat a great use for Model Magic. I love the twig arms and orange toothpick carrot nose.