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Read Aloud: This morning we read a big book titled The Birthday Cake. The book contains a small amount of text, following a repetative pattern. "A red cake." and "A yellow cake.".

Math: After reading the story we introduced and created a staircase pattern. The pattern for this book is woven throughout the pages.

Later in the day we practiced putting motions to this pattern and expanded our patterns.

Social Studies: We talked about appropriate clothing for a variety of weathers. We brainstormed articles of clothing that you would wear in the cold weather and the warm weather. Students completed a worksheet which asked them to circle things they would wear in cold weather and then drove a picture on the back of themselves in cold weather clothing.

We finished our Skiers today by attaching the "skis" (tongue depressors) to our skiers. We explored January's "Let's Find Out" about Winter Festivals around the world.

Art: We read Snowballs by Lois Ehert. We used random items that have been collected or accumulated to decorate the snowmen that had previously been finger painted. The result was great! These will go up to decorate our classroom just in time for Snow Day.