Winter Wonderland

Students at Picadome have started studying winter. They have been creating winter projects. Beautiful snowflakes and snowmen grace the Picadome hallways and classrooms. Winter stories have been written and illustrated. Warm winter mittens were decorated with favorite winter activities. Students created snowmen glyphs. A Winter ABC book was created. Check out our snow projects.

Scientists think there are four different snowflake shapes.  

The simplest shape is a long needle shaped like a spike. The other shapes have six sides.

 

MVC-028S.JPG (40199 bytes) One of them is a long, hollow column that is shaped like a six-sided prism.  i.jpg (50679 bytes)

Winter ABC Book by Mrs. Anderson and Ms. Clapp's classes

 There are also thin, flat six-sided plates.  And lastly there are intricate, six-pointed stars.
Each snowflake is made up of from 2 to about 200 separate crystals. No two snowflakes are exactly alike.  

 

Snow can have different consistencies. Powder snow is good for snow sports. Densely packed snow is better to make snowmen and snowballs. 

 

snow17.jpg (42974 bytes)

Snowmen by Mrs. Scott's class

Mittens by Mrs. Mullins' class

Snowmen by Ms. Wilson's, Ms. Boling's and Mr. Sharp's classes

Word Family Snowmen by Ms. Teel's class

Snowmen by Ms. Perry's class

 

Snowman Stories by Ms. Cunningham's, Mrs. Johnson's and Mrs. Littleton's first graders 

Winter Stories by Ms. Teel's class

Snowmen by Ms. Tammy Johnson's class

Snowmen Glyphs by Ms. Teel's class

Snowman Glyphs - by Mrs. Smith's class

   

Winter ABC Book - by Mrs. Anderson's, Ms. Clapp's and Mrs. Elam's classes

   

 

Fun Snow Links

Build a Snowman - An Artistic Activity
Ben and Jerry's Virtual Snowman
Build a Snowman Game
Build Blackdog's Snowman
Billy Bear's Make a Snowman
Mix and Match Snowman Game
Make Your Own Snowman
The Snowman Game
Build a Snowman
Build-A-Snowman from Class Brain
Build-a-Snowman from Primary Games
Ten Little Snowmen from StarFall
Snowman Builder from Crayola
Frost-o-Matic
Build a Snowman
Frosty the Snowman - online audio story 
Make-A-Flake
Count the Flakes from Kid's Domain
Match the Snowflakes Memory Game
Design a Snowflake

 

Graphics provided by

 

Page updated April 26, 2005