Brr!!! It’s a chilly start to our new year. While we don’t have any snow on the ground (yet!), my kids are already dreaming of snowflakes and snowmen. For now, though, we’re settling for making super cute snowmen indoors until we can make some outside. Here’s the suncatcher snowman craft we recently made as we […]
This post contains affiliate links to products I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. One of my most popular winter pins is the one I found last year on a blog I love to read called katherinemaries.com. It was from a post about ten things to do on a snow day and included this cute […]
When I taught public school, our school used the Four Blocks Literacy Model for reading and writing. The four blocks are guided reading, self-selected reading, writing, and working with words (phonics). One of the activities both my students and I always enjoyed was simply called “Making Words”. Students were given a big word (which was […]
Friday is art day around here and with temperatures in the single digits last week, what better art project to make than a snowman?! I’m so excited to share this textured snowman craft with you. The snowman looks so real that you almost feel like it’s made of snow! Materials: Construction paper or cardstock (Colors: […]
January 1st will mark one year since I began selling products on TeachersPayTeachers and what an exciting year it has been! TPT has been a wonderful avenue for me to combine my love of teaching and creating things to use with my own kids, with a desire to want to bring in a little […]
We took our kids to see Frozen over the holidays and they have been smitten ever since! They talk about it often and my daughter, Lillie Kate, has her eye on some Frozen Valentines at Target that she’s really wanting. The other day one of them mentioned the movie again and I starting thinking about […]
Children are sponges. They love soaking up new information, especially about things that already interest them and what kid doesn’t like snow?! They will love learning as they read through these nonfiction children’s books about snow: Amazon.com Widgets A favorite of many? Snowflake Bentley. It a beautiful biography of Wilson Bentley whose love of […]
Looking for books about snow to incorporate into your lessons? Amazon.com Widgets Any of these books would be a delightful read to your students! A fun follow-up activity to reading any of these books would be to grow your own snowflake crystals as detailed in this experiment by Steve Spangler Science. His site even […]
How many snowballs can your students stack in 1 minute? Find out in this fun winter graphing game for first grade! Materials: large marshmallows Speed Stackers graphing pages timer Directions: Using large marshmallows as snowballs, students first predict how many snowballs they can stack in one minute. Then they race to see how many they […]
A fun and hands-on way for first grade students to practice reading and writing CVC words this winter is to build them with snowballs! Materials: ping pong balls permanent marker half dozen egg carton (or a regular egg carton) Take ping pong balls and write letters or place letter stickers on them. Use these “snowballs” […]