Read: About Snow

I LOVE the book Snowballs, by Lois Ehlert.

There are so many things you can talk about with your kiddos when you read it, and the illustrations are amazing. The author uses pictures of real objects (like seeds, and strawberries) to decorate her snowmen, so you can get LOTS of practice in naming things and learning new vocabulary. She even includes a list of all of the pictures of items in the book at the end- similar to the “I Spy” books.

Here’s what we talk about while we read the book:

Body parts: We look at all of the different objects used to make eyes, noses, mouths, arms, etc.

Counting: We count everything! The number of seeds used to make teeth, how many birds we see while we read, the number of snowmen, how many stones we see, you get the picture!

Prepositions, or where things are: we identify where different objects are on the snowmen. A few of my kids are working on the preposition “on,” which is perfect for this book (hats are on heads, eyes are on faces… yep. We love “on”!).

Vocabulary: Name everything! Talk about what you do with the objects in the pictures and where you usually find them. Take turns saying “I see _____” and naming an object on one of the pages while the other person/people find it.

You can easily make your own snowmen from objects around the house or in your classroom or speech room after reading the book. 2-3 paper plates work really well for the snowmen’s bodies. Lay them out on a table like this:

Add items to make the snowman’s face, arms, and accessories. Leftover Christmas candy snowman, anyone?

Or maybe an office supply snowman is more your style:

Have fun reading!