Story Time: S is for Snow and Winter OlympicS
Story Time: S is for Snow and Winter OlympicS
Enjoying a snowy day with your child is the perfect time to teach them about healthy competition. As you play, you can talk about:
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How to win and lose gracefully
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Encouraging all participants
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Congratulating the winner
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The value of cooperation and teamwork
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Feeling proud of a well-planned effort
Watching winter sports together can also be a great way to start the conversation.
Join us Tuesdays, and Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. in the Community Room or Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. in the Activity Room.
Ages 3-5
Sing, Talk, Read, Write, Play
Tip
“Zoom, Zoom Zoom,” is a favorite song/game for many children. This exciting rhyme let’s the children count down to a lift-off at zero. Try this new winter version, “Snowflakes in the Sky,” where children can sing the same melody, but count up to ten. This rhyme is a great skill-builder for understanding sequencing, the order in which something takes place.
Activity
Make ten snowflakes with your child from paper or cupcake wrappers. Then, sing “Snowflakes in the Sky,” and count the snowflakes together at the end of the song. If you’d like use your snowflakes multiple times, you can “laminate” them with clear packing tape!
Books Presented
Snowman Paul at the Winter Olympics by Yossi Lapid
Can a humble snowman compete on the world’s biggest Olympic stage? Snowman Paul is determined to find out.
When Dan and Snowman Paul arrive at the Winter Olympics, Paul can’t resist the thrill of competition. Faster than a swish of skis, he jumps into event after event—ski jumping, snowboarding, figure skating, and more! Paul dazzles the crowds, amazes the judges, and celebrates his victories.
But soon, a big question hangs in the icy air: Is Paul competing fairly—or is he getting a little unexpected help from his friends?
In this humorous, heartwarming, and beautifully rhymed adventure, children follow Dan and Paul as they explore timeless lessons about honesty, friendship, fair play, and what it truly means to win with integrity.
Flurry, Float, and Fly!: The Story of a Snowstorm by Laura Purdie Salas
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
Building a Snowman
Tune: The More We Get Together
Can you help me build a snowman,
A snowman, a snowman?
Can you help me build a snowman?
He’s missing his _______!
(middle, head, scarf, hat, eyes, and so on)
Source: Storytime in the Stacks
Dancing snowflakes
(tune of Frère Jacques)
Dancing snowflakes,
Dancing snowflakes,
In the sky, in the sky
Whirling twirling snowflakes,
Whirling twirling snowflakes
See them fly, see them fly!
Adapted from: Storytime with Ms. Emily Library
Snowflakes in the Sky
(tune: Zoom, Zoom Zoom)
Fly, fly fly there’s snowflakes in the sky.
Fly, fly fly there’s snowflakes in the sky.
If you want to catch them all, count the snowflakes as they fall.
Fly, fly fly there’s snowflakes in the sky.
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Come Under My Umbrella
(tune of The More We Get Together)
Come under my umbrella, umbrella, umbrella
Come under my umbrella, it’s starting to snow
There’s snowflakes and flurries and wind and ice
Come under my umbrella it’s starting to snow!
Adapted from King County Library System
Crafts and Activities
Snow Coloring Page
Blizzard in a Bag
Additional Books
It's a Big World, Little Pig! by Kristi Yamaguchi
Poppy’s big dreams lead her to Paris for the world games ice skating championship. Nervous but ever courageous and supported by her family she embarks upon the adventure head-on. Poppy meets a snowboarding panda, a Maltese who skies, and two fellow skaters, a crane and a Kangaroo. She begins to realize that although these animals look different, act different, and are from different places, they are all the same at heart.
Froggy Builds a Snowman by Jonathan London
Just One Flake by Travis Jonker
