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THIS MONTH’S THEME Winter Wonderland Value Your Child’s In this icy adventure, your children will pretend to sled with penguins, Emerging Ideas run with snow leopards and build an When your child observes you valuing and integrating his ideas, his self-esteem will igloo. They will help rescue a baby increase. You can help boost your child’s confidence and self-esteem with these tips: polar bear from an iceberg and imagine skiing down a mountain. • Give your child choices where either choice is acceptable. For example, “Would you Experiment with melting ice and like to wear the blue shirt or the pink shirt?” In both choices the child is getting dressed. explore the Arctic in this sparkling, • Ask your child for his opinion when making decisions. snowy theme. Whether you are rearranging furniture or cooking Today I made a snowfl ake. I arranged craft sticks to design my own falling dinner, if you ask your child what he thinks, it shows BASICS TO REINFORCE snowflAT ake.HOME My snowfl ake will look different from all the others because each one is unique. I practiced thatmy you care enough to consider his opinions. spatial awareness skills when I moved the craft sticks to LETTERS Ii, Pp and Tt create the snowfl ake. • Follow the interests of your child when ASK ME Did you count NUMBERS how many points yourpossible. Incorporate his interests in activities 7 andDAILY 8 snowfl ake has? Where will you keep your snowfl ake? NOTES or discussions. • Encourage responsibility by giving your Week Ice & Snow child chores each day. No matter how

young, each person has the ability to Today I made icicles.contribute. Icicles can be long and pointy. I had to fi gure out Today I made my name how to cut my materials to look like an icicle.• Be I decided flexible, yet consistent, with house rules in the snow. to use either my own fi ngers to tear the paper and foil or use scissors. It’s fun areto create shiny! art with materialsand that routines. There are so many ways to dress a snowman. The snowman I madeLook is dressed in letters. for I had to count, the daily • Talk with your child daily. Research has write on and arrange my materials during this art project. Now my snowman has a name! ASK ME Did you tear or cut your materials?shown What are that many language and literacy notesASK ME How about many letters are your icicles made of? in your name? DidToday you make I made a snowfl ake. any clothes for your snowman? experiences come from rich I arranged craft sticks to design my own falling snowfl ake. My snowfl ake will look different from all child’s artthe others projects! because each one is unique. I practiced my conversation on a daily basis. spatial awareness skills when I moved the craft sticks to Invite him to share his ideas create the snowfl ake. DAILY Today I made drippingwith family members and NOTES ASK ME Did you countwater art. how many points your form opinions about what Week Ice & SnowToday I made an igloo. snowflI explored ake has? the Where concepts will of freezing and melting today. I learned that igloos are structures made of you keepI decided your snowfl to use ake? an eyedropper and watercolors to snow blocks. I decided to construct my own matters to him. create drips on my paper. It’s fun using different tools to iglootoBasics with aReinforce paper plate and paper strips. Now at Home create my artwork! animals and people can go inside my igloo when there is a snowstorm. ASK ME How did you get ASK ME Who can yourWhen paint to drip down?you provide an Today I made my name come inside your igloo? What kinds of things melt? Would you want to live in the snow. in an Todayigloo? I made icicles. atmosphere full of care

Inc. Time, Goose Mother 2017 © There are so many ways to dress a snowman. The Icicles can be long and pointy. I had to ﬁ gure out snowman I made is dressed in letters. I had to count, how to cut my materials to look like an icicle. I decided and concern, you show write on and arrange my materials during this art to use either my own ﬁ ngers to tear the paper and foil project. Now my snowman has a name! or use scissors. It’s fun to create art with materials that your child that he is are shiny! valued. This connection ASK ME How many letters are in your name? Did you make any clothes for your snowman? and sense of self can last ASK ME Did you tear or cut your materials? What are a lifetime. icicles made of?

Find more educational ideas for at home on our blog: Today I made an igloo. www.mothergoosetime.com/blog I learned that igloos are structures made of snow blocks. I decided to construct my own Today I made dripping igloo with a paper plate and paper strips. Now animals and people can go inside my igloo when water art.

I explored the concepts of freezing and melting today. there is a snowstorm. I decided to use an eyedropper and watercolors to create drips on my paper. It’s fun using different tools to

ASK ME Who can create my artwork! come inside your igloo? Would you want to live in an igloo? ASK ME How did you get your paint to drip down? What kinds of things melt?

7 Spruce Trees 2 Snowman Alpine Ice & Tundra 8 Tree Line 3 Icicles Snow 9 Mountaintop 4 Igloos

10 Skiing 5 Freezing & Melting Winter

16 Arctic Gear Wonderland 11 Penguins 17 North Pole Tundra 12 Polar Bears 18 Arctic Shelters Life in the Arctic Animals 13 Yaks 19 Arctic Transportation 14 Snow Leopards 20 Icebergs 15 Arctic Foxes

Topics your child will explore this month

Family Activities RECOMMENDED READS Freezing & Melting Explore the concepts of freezing and melting with a Cuddle variety of liquids. Look for frozen items at the grocery WITH A store, local ice-skating rink, or outside. Freeze your Up GOOD BOOK favorite juice to make homemade popsicles and feel the arctic cold in your own home. Arctic Lights, Arctic Nights by Debbie S. Miller The Polar Bear Son: An Inuit Tale I Am Cold by Lydia Dabcovich (Sing to the tune of “London Bridge”) Make up additional verses Over in the Arctic with other things that make you cold. by Marianne Berkes For example, “When the snow falls” Building an Igloo or “When the rain comes.” by Ulli Steltzer When the wind blows, The Antarctic Habitat I am cold, I am cold, I am cold. by Molly Aloian When the wind blows, & Bobbie Kalman I am cold, Explore the Tundra Brrrr, I am cold. by Linda Tagliaferro