Today we read Snow Is Falling, by Franklyn M Branley.  It is a fun story about different things you can see and do when it snows.  It has lots of descriptive words to describe snow too.  This is a fun book to read and it is easy to recreate the various aspects of the story with props such as this Winter Story Bin.


In addition to retelling the stories in books, you can create your own stories too.
Here is one of the scenes from our own story the kids played out: 

         Snowman. 

The snowman has a house for his “people” guests to stay overnight.  He has lots of snowman friends, an ice skating pond, small, medium, large, and giant snowflakes and snowballs, and letters to spell snow, ice, snowman, and cold.

The kids are having lots of fun re-creating their stories with this bin.  This is a great way to review what they have learning in the book, and further extend their learning while playing. 

 I’ll write more posts about the “winter theme” books we read, and story scenes we made with our bin.  I will post the links below.

         Snow

        Penguins

         Animal Tracks

         Mittens

Check out more of our winter theme activities at the bottom of the Winter Sensory Bin post. 


What fun indoor winter themes have you done with your kids? 
Please leave a comment.  Thank you.




This post will be linked up with
No Time For Flash Cards
ABC and 123
Play Academy
Raising Homemakers