Snow - Uri Shulevitz

"Snowflakes Falling Down"

(Sung to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat")

Snowflakes Falling down (Lowering hands while fluttering fingers)

Falling to the Ground

Big, white fluffy flakes (Make circles with thumbs and index fingers)

That do not make a sound (Put finger to lips and shake head)

-Susan A. Miller

Kutztown, PA

Skiing

I'm very good at skiing

I have a kind of knack

For I can do it frontways

And also on my back

And when I reach the bottom

I give a sudden flop

And dig myself in sideways

And that's the way I stop.

-Marchette Chute

Instructions for Milk Jug Igloos

1.  Allow children to bring milk jugs from home.  (The bigger the igloo, the more jugs you will need.)

2.  Make sure jugs are washed and clean.

3.  Form a circle of masking tape on floor where igloo will stand.  (The bigger the circle, the bigger the igloo will be.)

4.  Begin placing milk jugs around circle.  (Bottom of jug will be facing out.  Remember to leave a space for the entrance.)

5.  Milk jugs will be attached to each other using hot glue.

6.  Gradually move each row of milk cartons to the center until they meet in the middle. 

*Teachers will have to do the actual construction, but the children have great fun using these for dramatic play.

Snowflake Bentley - By Jacquelin Briggs Martin

Winter Poems - With selections by Barbara Rogasky

Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman

http://www.snowflakebentley.com

http://www.fema.gov/kids/wntstrm.htm

http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/build_a_snowman.html

http://204.72.1.245/science/lessons23/snowman.html

http://www.monroe2boces.org/shared/esp/snwflake.htm

http://childfun.com/themes/snow.shtml

http://www.childfun.com/themes/penguin.shtml

http://henson2.ssu.edu/~elbond/snow.htm