Dancing Snow

This morning we read the book Snow, written by Cynthia Rylant and illustrated by Lauren Stringer. Then we listened to The Snow is Dancing, a musical piece composed by Claude Debussy. We discussed the way snow falls and used scarves to become dancing snowflakes.

Today we also used ribbon sticks to explore movement, while listening to the Chinese Dance from the Nutcracker. We talked briefly about the Nutcracker, a ballet that is performed in winter.

Paintings of winter scenes by Canadian folk artist Maude Lewis were our inspiration for art. The children painted their own pictures, adding white at the end to create winter scenes.