Winter 2009

Creativity basket tips for the week:  

Cardboard box to make "snowshoes" & chenille stems (pipe cleaners) or ribbons.

Jump into winter exercise with January's butterfly school.  Each day's Activity Sheet suggests one fun outdoor activity.  To bring the winter fun indoors, here are some tips from my kitchen table to yours . . . 

For more great ideas, check out the activities at our parent site www.shininghours.com.  

You are ready for the Activity Sheets now; you can print them from here (Get Sheets), or go back to the Butterfly School home page.

From Butterfly Central,

-- Jessica Steigerwald

E-mail ideas and comments to: butterflycentral@shininghours.com

 (Original date 2005)

Winter is the perfect time to encourage your child's love of reading and storytelling.  When it is cold outside, select or write a great story to read together.

To make reading come alive, try writing your own simple stories!  Select any picture from this week's Activity Sheets and write a very short story about the picture.  Describe what happened next for the caterpillars!

A great resource:  Pictures on the go!  Select pictures from magazines or from your family photographs to keep in an envelope -- take them along when you are going to a doctor's appointment or any place you need to wait.  Use the time to create a story about the picture!

Take the time to read on a winter afternoon and help instill a lifelong love of reading in your child!

Coordinated resources:

Counting table 1- 10.