A short and snowy February
By Kathy Ayette - St. Mary’s School News
I have to tell you the magic in my classroom is strong magic indeed. In January, the kindergarten class made snowflakes and their teacher hung them from the ceiling. They also did a torn paper picture of snowflakes to hang in the hall. As you may remember, there wasn’t a lot of snow in January. Now I had planned to do paper snowflakes with my class. I enjoy listening to the “oohs” and “ahs” as the children unfold their papers to reveal lacy snowflakes. It never gets old. I hope you noted the word “planned.” Somehow before I knew it, January had morphed into February. So, I had the children cut out the snowflakes and glue a red heart in the center of each snowflake. (I like killing the proverbial two birds with one stone.) The extra “unhearted” flakes were glued on black paper. I hung our snowflakes from the ceiling and the pictures in the hall. Bingo! We have 10 inches of snow. (I apologize. I g