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With all of the snow, wind, and COOOOLLLLDDDD weather we have
had lately, we decided to put our student’s background knowledge and experience
to good use (of course, we tied it into curriculum ;o)
We did a little shaving cream/glue snowman coupled with a SNOW
acrostic poem that taught the students how to use small words, such as onomatopoeia
along with longer phrases-in an essence, we were practicing our sentence
fluency! They were sooooo cute. We have gotten a lot of compliments (and
fingers touching our art-grrrr!)
Mangament: We used simple Dixie cups and popsicle sticks
for our materials. Each student opened
up the lid of their elmers glue and poured a small amount into the bottom of
their Dixie cup (probably about 2 Tblsp…give or
take some.) Then, I came around with one
can of shaving cream and squirted enough in the cup to fill it up. They then used their popsicle stick to stir
it up. Of course, I had already laid the
ground work BEFORE the activity and warned them about how the shaving cream
didn’t come out of their cup or they were DONE with art!
Students painted their snowmen with their popsicle sticks. The THICKER the shaving cream on the paper,
the fluffier the snowman will be when it dries!
We had students put their buttons in the FLUFFY, wet shaving
cream-this serves as the glue! They also
cut out their “goodies” for the snowmen out of construction paper and put it on
the wet shaving cream. There was NO
GLUING needed!
After they were done with their art, they worked on their SNOW
acrostic poem! This was their first
acrostic poem of the year, so they were a little “rough,” but they did another
one the next day for another subject and they were soooooo much better! Here is our publishing paper!
A couple on the bulletin board:
