Story Mix for Three to Six: Snow!

Brrrr.  It's cold out there!  However, I bet your little one loves to play in the snow!  Include these rhymes in your outdoor playtime fun as you crunch your feet in the snow or slide down a hill!  Or take some of those winter elements and bring them indoors where it's warm with these great rhymes and stories.  Through the songs and rhymes, consonance and dissonance are incorporated in words such as 'crunch' and 'straps', which help children hear the sounds letters and words make.  This language technique builds language so that words like 'feathery' become part of a child's vocabulary.

Put On Our Mittens Rhyme
Let’s put on our mittens and button our coats
Wrap a scarf snugly around our throats
Pull on our boots and fasten the straps
And tie on tightly our warm winter caps
Then open the door and out we go
Into the soft and feathery snow

Crunch Crunch Sliding Rhyme
Crunch crunch crunch crunch up the hill so slow
Sliding, sliding, sliding, sliding down the hill we go

Crunch crunch crunch crunch up the hill so slow
Sliding, sliding, sliding, sliding down the hill we go

Have more wintertime fun when you read these books we enjoyed at Story Mix this week:

The Hat by Jan Brett
When Lisa hangs her woolen clothes in the sun to air them out for winter, the hedgehog, to the amusement of the other animals, ends up wearing a stocking on his head. 
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A Hat for Minerva Louise by Janet Morgan Stoeke
Minerva Louise, a snow-loving chicken, mistakes a pair of mittens for two hats to keep both ends warm.
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The Mouse that Jack Built by Cyndy Szekeres
Jack the bunny builds a wonderful snowmouse, decorating it with his own ragged hat and scarf, which he is able to leave on the snowmouse when his mother surprises him with a new hat and scarf.
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Please Let it Snow by Harriet Ziefert
New boots, new jacket, new hat, but no snow! The charmingly impatient boy in this book just wants winter to arrive. But, day after day, the sun keeps on shining, until one day...
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