Home school preschool winter week

I don't know if anyone has heard of the little movie called Frozen?

yeah my girls love it.

I am not much of a fan

now before I get tons of hate mail 

yes I like that this movie is not all about falling for a prince or a male saving the day

and it's more about sisters.

I like that

but the actual story just stinks.

doesn't make much sense to me.

what parents would shut their child in a room telling her she has to hide and be afraid of hurting anyone she comes in contact too?

and lots of other things

 I could list a bunch and maybe I will 

but this post is about home school preschool. 

so I will move on.

This week we learned about SNOW!

we read these books

Winter

Winter

The snowman

Then we did lots of activities

cotton ball name

and chalk snowman drawing

 then we had a plate full of powder sugar and traced letters Aa-Ff 

this got really messy and normally I would be a little upset about the mess BUT for whatever reason I just let it go and boy did she take advantage of my mood. powder sugar every where! but she got all her letters right :)

 we made paper snowflakes

here is a link for lots of patterns

 Then we did a little science experiment

very simple

take a pipe cleaner and cut into pieces and twist together to make a snowflake

tie a string to one end and to the middle of a pencil.

pour boiled hot water in a jar

our jar held almost 2 cups of water so we needed to add 6 tablespoons of Borax. (laundry booster)

stir it up

then place the snowflake so that it is hanging from the pencil into the water:

 The directions said to leave it for 7-8 hours but we didn't see much of a change so we left it over night (14-15 hours)

The next day we removed it and tied a knot at the top of the string.

and hung it on our Christmas tree:

it's really pretty and sparklingly

 then I printed off a bunch of Frozen theme preschool worksheets I found here.

 We also went over her letters and numbers

then we started working on sequence like first middle and last.

next week 's theme is Christmas week and then I scheduled two weeks off since Julia will be on Christmas break. but remembering how she hated taking a few weeks off when Hazel was born I am thinking I might have to plan a few preschool days during the holiday break.

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