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 […]
Winter Graphing Game for First Grade
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 […]
CVC Activities for First Grade
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” […]
Winter Math Activity
Would your kids love to have an indoor snowball fight? They can with this fun winter math activity! Materials: Snowball Fight game boards mini marshmallows Directions: Kids take turns throwing snowballs (marshmallows) at each other. They play this “Battleship” inspired game by calling out places on their game board grid. When a player correctly guesses […]