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” […]
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 […]