Our long wait is over! Nature Preschool finally got its wish for snow – with plenty more on the way! This week the children read so many winter books, created some stories of their own and even acted them out! We prepped ourselves for the oncoming blizzard by making snowmen sculptures, painting ice, creating colorful mittens and building cozy animal dens that we curled up in for a good story!
Our favorite class moments this week:
-The Flying Squirrels went out in the snow and made snow fairies! They also looked like prints of flying squirrels gliding in the air!
-The Coyotes got onstage and put on a play inspired by one of our favorite stories, Going On A Bear Hunt.
-The Rabbit class created clay snowmen that they took home!
-While reading The Mitten, by Jan Brett, the Chipmunks tried to be like the animals in the story and fit into one giant mitten! It was a tight squeeze!
-The Bears came together in their bear fort they created and were great at welcoming new friends!
-The Foxes hiked to the meadow to avoid the winter winds, played in the tall grass and went for a hike in the snow!
We couldn’t be more thrilled about the winter storm headed our way! We are looking forward to more snow exploration, snowballs and sledding!
In Winter Snow,
Nature Preschool at Irvine Nature Center
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- Balancing on a snowy stump!
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- Miss Swati and the foxes sitting in the snow.
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- She is famous for finding Y sticks!
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- The foxes work together to write a story about a magical journey in the woods!
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- Snowflake Boy
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- The foxes working together to paint a blue sky for our diorama.
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- The final product!
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- Foxes in the tall grass!
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- Tickling his nose with a fox tail!
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- Snipping away at some grasses in the meadow! Great fine motor practice!
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- Melted Playdough Snomen
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- Making a snowman family!
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- Proud of her snowperson!
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- The rabbit class traced bear stencils and used natural materials like grass, mud and watercolors to paint a scene around him!
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- Mud Painting
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- Rabbit girls playing with puppets in the loft!
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- She is so proud of her snow person!
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- Easel painting!
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- Painting Ice
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- Beautiful colors mixing
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- Smiling behind her snow person! What a beautiful creation!
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- A bear is running loose in the outdoor classroom!
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- Miss Emily and the Bears at circle time!
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- Reading “The Mitten” by Jan Brett
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- A new bear friend!
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- Gather around for a story!
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- Miss Devon is wrapped up to protect herself from winter winds!
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- Story time in the Chipmunk class!
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- Stories with puppets are so much fun!
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- A chipmunk friend saying hello!
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- Mitten Art
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- Creating a colorful mitten!
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- Watercolors on Ice in the chipmunk class!
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- The Flying Squirrels made predictions of how much snow would fall!
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- Trying to catch a flurry!
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- The flying squirrels look like they are spreading their patagias, their special fury membrane that helps them fly, to make prints in the snow!
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- Beautiful!
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- The Flying Squirrels had special family visitors come in to share a winter story!
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- Working hard in their nature journals! They are creating illustrations for their class story!
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- The Flying Squirrels hunker down in their nest!
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- Clay Snowpeople
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- Snow people made by the flying squirrels!
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- Puppet Play
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- Painting Ice
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- Miss Nancy and the squirrels cozy up for a story!
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- The coyote class is manipulating clay and branches to create trees for their winter woods diorama!
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- Cutting clay and molding to enhance fine motor skills!
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- The final product! Beautiful winter woods! Now we need to add some snow!
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- Proud of his snowman creation!
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- Hello there snowman!
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- The coyotes come face to face with the red shouldered hawk!
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- Did you know coyotes get hat hair?
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- A coyote dad comes in and shares 3 of their families favorite stories!
