Snow Day? Our fault!

It was our fault. 

We're pretty certain we caused last week's Snow Day. Whoops!

We had spent the week dreaming about a big dump of snow ... and then BOOM, piles and piles of snow arrived in Ardrossan! 

This is how it all happened...

Mrs. Beliveau kicked off the week by reading one of her favourite winter books, Dream Snow by Eric Carle. 

In the book, a farmer falls asleep and dreams his farm animals are covered by snow. The book has transparent pages with white "snow" on them. When the clear pages are lifted, we see the farm animal that was hidden under the snow. So clever!

We got right to work creating our own snow-covered animals, complete with clues! The boys and girls were dreaming of snow! Here was the criteria for our project:

In super-sneaky silence, the students wrote spectacular clues describing an animal of their choosing. Mrs. Beliveau's socks were completely knocked off by the complete sentences the boys and girls were writing nearly independently!

Then it was time to tackle the illustrations! Students drew their animal on a snowy landscape. 

Finally, we added a transparent page over our illustrations and got to work adding snow.

Look at the final product! 

Can you guess the animal that is buried under all that snow?

A baby chick!

The projects are complete and they are fantastic! So much for us to be proud of! 

Now the children will self-assess their work, based upon the initial criteria. This helps the students celebrate their successes and look for ways to improve as writers and illustrators. 

Come enjoy our bulletin board and see if you can guess what's hiding under all that snow!

And we apologize if our dreams of snow caused that big blizzard! 

Project inspired by Christina Bainbridge of Bunting, Books and Bright Ideas.