Add some winter magic to your classroom with these Snowmen At Work activities. Kids will love these hands on math and literacy stations in the snow village!

This Snowball Transfer Game is such fun winter activity for kids of all ages! Use the snowball game with family, in classrooms, or for parties too!

These adorable FREE activities to go along with The Mitten will be emailed to you within minutes! We love using this story throughout the month of January, and even more activities are included in my unit shown below.

This kid's science experiment with ice is just too cool. It's a simple, fun way to learn about salts' effects on the freezing point of water.

This worksheet is perfect for beginner students to practice phonics. Students have to read the words and circle the word that matches the picture.

Teaching story elements is very important in Kindergarten, and we teach them throughout the school year. Read this to get...

This simple kitchen science experiment teaches kids in a fun, hands-on way how arctic animals stay warm in some of the most brutal weather conditions on earth. This STEM activity works well in a lesson about winter, the arctic, animal adaptations, and many other subjects.

Learn tips and tricks to teach your kindergarten students valuable coding skills. You will find out why, what, when and how to teach your class how to code.

Time to ditch the morning work and start social time! My students are much happier now that they have an opportunity to socialize and do fun morning tub activities.

Looking for a fun way to teach 2D shapes? This marshmallow geometry activity will do the trick - and fill your tummy!

In my house we are VERY excited about the beginning of Spring... well sometimes we think it's coming and other times we are certain that winter will NEVER end.... but we are optimistic! My favorite th

Einen Wetterbericht im Radio hat jeder schon einmal gehört. Aber dieser hier ist anders. Es ist eine Klanggeschichte, bei der

As a part of our winter unit, Kindergartners learned a song about a snowman. The students really enjoyed using their imaginations and pretending to build their snowmen while we sang the song: Once they learned the song and practiced several times, they were very excited to add the Boomwhackers! Boomwhackers are colorful plastic tubes that are various lengths and pitches. I tell my students that they are called Boomwhackers because they make a "boom-ing" sound and you "whack" them on things. ツ For this activity, we played them on the carpet. The students took turns playing up the scale while we sang and then down the scale when the snowman melts at the end of the song. It was a great visual for them to see that as the notes got higher, the Boomwhackers were shorter. They did such a great job! Here are a few pictures of them with their instruments: It takes a LOT of self-control for Kindergartners to keep all of their Boomwhackers on the floor! ツ They love to play the "Big Reds." Someone knows how to pose! haha. Silly shot! YAY Boomwhackers!

I am linking up today with Elizabeth from Organized Chaos. We're hoping... and wishing... and dreaming of snow here in North Carolina! I am from the snowy state of Maine and living here in NC for the past 18 years I can honestly say I don't miss Maine in the winter. But, ah, the summer!!! LOVE it and miss my ocean terribly! Good thing I get to visit there almost every summer! Here is a snowflake song for younger students. I actually planned it to use with kindergarten and re-wrote it today to use with my kindies. We use the song with snowflakes (white feathers) and ice skates (paper plates.. yup- they work GREAT).! Process: Teach song, half the class at the glockenspiels with F's and B's (franks and beans or burgers and fries or buffalo's and flamingo's, however you say these bars) removed, practice singing and playing in the appropriate places. Other half of class performs the skating on paper plates while singing, each holds a white feather and when the song is over students blow feathers into the air while glocks improvise (as quietly as a snowflake!) as long as the "snowflake" (feather) is in the air. Once the "snowflake" is on the ground they stop improvising. I award "snowflake kisses" (extra feathers) to each student who stops as soon as the feather touches the ground. That way they get more than one feather to blow into the air when it is their turn. It's so funny to see them try to stop at the exact moment of "touchdown"! Switch jobs and perform again! Enjoy!

Want to see if a layer of blubber can really help you stay warm in icy water? Try this arctic animals science experiment to experience it.

Fish for ice cubes with a simple to set up ice fishing experiment. Part science and part magic, simple supplies create fun science!

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ALuv and I just finished a 2-week unit in our science last week on animals in the winter. We had fun and both learned quite a bit! I wanted to share a few resources and ideas of how we integrated literacy into our study. We focused on the three ways that animals survive in the winter time: hibernation, migration, ... Read More about Animals in Winter

Each December, we teach about Wants and Needs Activities for Kindergarten. Since little learners love to discuss things they WANT to get from Santa, it is

Grab a little reader on penguins here:  When you put this reader together the fold goes on the outside (see picture in an earlier post) so little hands can turn the pages easily. I use a 11/2" strip of construction paper to hold all the pages together on the left side. Often I send these little books home for a parent to put together and I cut the strips ahead of time. I talked to the children about non fiction and hit many kindergarten standards with this piece of text. This is a great way to practice the sight words in context! Click here for this worksheet I finally got my first worksheet up on this blog, thanks to Deanna Jump and Dana Baker. They both have beautiful blogs that are an inspiration to me. Thank you blogging friends for taking the time to help me. I really feel grateful to both of you. 

Ever wondered how arctic animals stay warm in icy water? This fun science experiment shows how a layer of fat makes a huge difference in body temperature!

I am originally from Maine, an original "Mainah". As much as I love my home state, and miss many parts of it, I am much happier weather wise here in North Carolina, especially now.. they were just hit with a massive storm and my parents have 2.5 FEET of snow in their yard and are set for more snow this weekend. My kiddos here at school are wanting just a few inches of the white stuff, and I would love to go out and play in the yard with my daughter and enjoy some snowy moments! Not to mention having a Snow Day. Here is a song for younger grades, Snowflakes Falling Down. We used it as a B section to the Snowflakes song from Gameplan, Grade K. After playing a few times, we let our mallets "dance" (alternate hands quickly) to play high sounds after "dancing high" and low sounds after "dancing low". Great fun.. Add some finger cymbals, whirling tubes (wind sounds) and chimes and you'll have a blustery blizzard of musical fun. Oh, and white feathers.. got to have them to blow around, too.. Cheers!!

This month we are focusing on the M2.1 expectation in mathematics which is compare and order two or more objects according to an appropriate measure (e.g. length, mass, area, temperature, capacity) and use measurement terms. This week we focused on temperature for 2 days. First I read this book "Hot or Cold" and talked about the hot and cold things we see in each picture. Then I asked the students to come up with something that is hot or cold (either from the book or their own idea) and we put them on this chart. We did 5 of each the first day and added 2 more for each column the second day. Then during centres students worked with an educator to complete this hot and cold t-chart. This was my example. (Sidenote: I'm loving these clear photo frames I got at Dollarama, they are great for displaying centre instructions, exemplars, mini anchor charts etc!) And here is some student work! Simple yet effective... exactly how I like it! Do you have any fun activities for comparing temperature? ___________________________________________________________________ Added 08.11.21: I now have a full non-standard measurement unit with lesson plans and printables! Click here or on the image below if you are interested in taking a look: I also now have a digital non-standard measurement unit! Click here or on the images below if you are interested in checking that one out:

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Use these boxes for students to sound out words and blend phonemes during Word Work. Related Products • Beginning Sounds Centers • CVC Words Centers • Word Family Centers • Tactile Letter Sheets • Rhyming Words Packet •Let's get connected!• Click the small green ★ by my name to follow along for S...

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K-1 NONFICTION WRITING My nonfiction writing unit is here! This is the perfect way to introduce kindergarten and first grade students to what informational writing is. This unit is so engaging for students because it uses real life photographs and animals. We discus

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Make a hands-on seasons activity for kids using rocks or stones, wooden circles, and some stickers! Children can sort the picture stones onto the appropriate wooden circle depicting either spring, summer, winter or fall. Such a great way to encourage discussion about the differences between the four seasons! Follow our Creative Learning Pinterest board! …

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Teach your kids about the northern lights (and science) with this hands-on activity

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This is our Unit Studies shelf with activities to help children explore what animals do in winter. Here’s our setup for making animal tracks in playdoh. A little glitter in the white playdoh can make the work even more attractive. I used the animals from our North America box for this activity. […]