After this lesson children will have:
Tell children that part of the game is that if they touch anyone else, they (snowflakes) will melt! This will help children be careful not to run into each other.
Read the book suggested in the enrichment activity or any other book about snowflakes to introduce the exercise break.
Children pretend to be snowflakes. The teacher will say, “Snowflake, snowflake, falling down, snowflake snowflake ________ [put in a locomotor move, such as “Jump”] around.”
The students carefully move about in general space performing that particular locomotor move. When the teacher strikes the drum, students must freeze and listen. The teacher will repeat, “Snowflake snowflake falling down, snowflake snowflake __________ around.”
Locomotor moves: walk, jump, skip, hop, skate, gallop, tip toe, crab walk, roll, slither, and some imaginative ones like dance, monkey walk, silly walk, and fly.
Talk to children about what snowflakes are and what they look like. Ask children to use words to describe the way snowflakes move and feel when they land on you.
Also, read Tiny Snowflake, by Art Ginolfi.
Following this activity, please fill out the teacher’s weekly log form for this lesson.
Following this activity, please fill out the teacher’s weekly log form for this lesson.