The document outlines activities and materials for a winter-themed dramatic play area and classroom. It includes items like silver material, scarves, and puppets to represent ice and winter clothing in the dramatic play area. Books about winter themes, a sensory table with items like styrofoam balls, and songs about winter are also listed to enhance learning about the season.

1. WINTER WONDERLAND
DRAMATIC PLAY AREA:
Silver material for "ice"
"skates" made out of socks
scarves, hats, gloves
puppets (from Jan Brett characters)
tea pot for cocoa
cups
brown paper, white paper, hole puncher
paper, snowflake stencils
writing utensils
picture file:
laminated photos
children's art work-blue/white easel paintings, winter collage, snowrnen
"Ice Fishing" with silver bucket, paper fish with paper clips, magnet
boxes for hibernating animals, bear cave
BLOCKAREA:
stuffed animals that remain active in winter
MANIPULATIVES
o animal match-up game (concentration)
o snowflake match-up game
o find the missing mitten (gross motor)
o winter/summer sort
o winter puzzles, shape pluzzles.
. Soy, sorbet, ice cream taste test
BOOKS:
Who Likes the Snow? by Etta Kaner
Snow Sounds, by David A. Johnson
The Mitten, by Jan Brett
Dear Rebecca Winter is Here
Snowballs, by Louis Ehlert
Snowmen at Night
A Stranger in the Woods
POETRY:
The Coming of December, Parachute Express
SENSORY TABLE
Styrofoam balls, packing peanuts; Water/Ice
Where do Bears Sleep?
When Winter Comes
The Jacket I Wear in the Snow
Charlie Needs a Cloak
Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep
Spotlieht on Cotton
Grandmother Winter
SONGS
Hot Chocolate
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost All My Friends Live in the Woods
winter Eyes, by Douglas Florian !e're Going on a Bear Hu.nt
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