Materials
poster board
picture of people sitting in a restaurant
collection of restaurant-related pictures, at least 1 per child
glue sticks
Instructions
l Create a sunshine wand for each child: Tape three strands of yellow curlingribbon and a yellow paper sun shape to the one end of a straw.What To Do1. Provide each child with a piece of white tissue paper. Have the childrencrumple these into balls to create the snowballs for this activity.2. Give each child a sunshine wand. Read the children a book about theseasons (see list to the left for suggestions). Invite the children to hold uptheir snowballs whenever they hear about winter weather and to wave theirsunshine wands over their heads whenever they hear about warm summerweather.3. After reading the book, recite simple statements about winter and summersuch as "I went sledding down the hill at my grandpa's farm," "Our familywent swimming at the lake," "We like to make a snow fort in our yard," and"Dad cooked hamburgers on the grill outside."4. Challenge the children to raise the correct object during each statement.5. Encourage the children to work in groups in which the children take turnsstating a favorite summertime or wintertime activity, and the rest of thechildren wave their sunshine wands or snowballs accordingly.AssessmentTo assess the children's learning, consider the following:l Do the children understand the connection between the objects and theseasons?l Are the children attentive? Do they wave the correct objects during thevarious seasonal statements?l Can the children describe things they like about the two seasons?
