After reading the story All You Need For A Snowman, students were quick to share about their own snowman stories as we looked back through the book and talked about the beginning, middle and ending. It was now time to get up and retell the story in a fun and active way.
First, we made sure we had our amazing imagination caps on as we began pretending to get dressed to go outside and build our own giant snowmen! We had lots of fun trudging through the thick snow that covered the classroom floor. We quickly discovered that rolling the biggest snowball for the bottom of our snowman was really hard work as we pushed and pushed and rolled it bigger and bigger! After rolling the bottom we started forming the middle ball and of course we remembered that the middle had to be smaller than the bottom snowball but bigger than the top snowball. Students used their strong muscles to lift the second snowball on top and then quickly started making their snowman's head. Our snowmen were tall and mighty and we needed to stand on our tippiest tippy toes to add the last snowball on the very top. It was definitely tricky, but we kept going and persevered...after all we were almost done! Lastly, we set out on a search for objects we could use to add important details to our snowmen such as, noses, smiles, eyes, ears, earrings, arms, hands, buttons, scarves, boots, hats...and lots more creative add-ons! Finally, we all stood back admiring our snowmen creations with our friends!
Throughout this activity students added their ideas, words and actions to help make this dramatization really come to life! It's original purpose was to practice our retelling and sequencing skills, but it soon became this wonderful opportunity to build vocabulary, get moving, be silly, smile and have fun!
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(And this is why I LOVE Kindergarten!)