Snowman Poem

I know this is off subject from the Pp lessons we've been doing. But I just wanted to share an idea I just found. I actually was checking out the blogs I follow and found some really cool winter songs at The Activity Mom blog. That reminded me of a song I used to sing years ago with the older children. I am not sure if we learned it at Head Start or from a friend, but it is called "A Chubby Little Snowman." I couldn't find who wrote it, and when I searched I found a lot of different versions. The version I learned goes like this:

A Chubby Little Snowman

A Chubby Little Snowman

(form your arms into a circle in front of you)

Had a carrot nose

(place your fist in front of your nose)

Along came a bunny

(put index and middle finger of one hand up like

bunny ears and hop it along the opposite arm)

And what do you suppose?

(shrug your shoulders)

The hungry little bunny

(rub your tummy)

Looking for some lunch

(your hand shades your eyes while looking left to right)

Ate the snowman's carrot nose

(place fist in front of nose again)

Nibble, Nibble, CRUNCH

(open and close hand 3 times, starting about a foot away from your face and ending with your fingers wrapped around your nose on "CRUNCH")

While I was searching I found a cute little project to go with the song, along with some more cool winter themed ideas. Here is the link.

Seeing as we won't get to Ss for a while, I think we may take some time to just do some snowman crafts. We did get to go out and play in the snow a few days ago, but the snow was so hard and crunchy the girls couldn't do much as we've had rain to melt most of the snow away and harden the snow. And the snow falling that day didn't amount to anything. Tabitha did enjoy painting the snow purple though. Yes, I have to get in our letter Pp if I can. LOL.

We also had fun talking about prints:

(Footprints. And I had them follow me around in my footprints)

(and Amelia "fall in the snow" prints)

However, she did prefer to just sit on the tricycle even though I explained she wasn't going to get very far.

And here are some more pictures of them playing in the snow: