Curated OER
Complete the Picture: Snowmen!
Finish the winter wonderland with your preschoolers. They trace pine trees and the tops of mountains to complete the snowy drawing. Have them color their paper and display the drawings during a winter unit!
Novelinks
The Winter’s Tale: Storybook Strategy
Introduce class members to the conventions of the romance genre and the theme of familial relationships with Mahlon F. Craft's illustrated Sleeping Beauty. The themes are a focus of their study of The Winter's Tale.
Novelinks
The Winter’s Tale: Facebook Strategy
To demonstrate their understanding of characterization in The Winter's Tale, groups create a Facebook profile for one of the characters in Shakespeare's play.
Lakeshore Learning
Fun in the Snow
Celebrate the arrival of winter with a reading of Jack Ezra Keats' book The Snowy Day. Engaging children by asking them about their own experiences in the snow, the teacher goes on to read the story aloud before asking the class to draw...
J. Paul Getty Trust
Narrating a Family Tradition
After examining a piece of art, scholars discuss what they see, paying close attention to details and space. A read-aloud introduces the topic of family traditions. Pupils interview their family members about a tradition in preparation...
Curated OER
Zoom Out - Terry Winter's "Rhyme"
Students predict and draw what a picture would look like if a camera zoomed out on it. In this visual arts lesson, students listen to a reading of Istavan Banyai's, Zoom before looking at an image of "Rhyme" by Terry Winters. They...
Curated OER
Winter Wonderland Windows
Students practice painting landscapes on windows and participate in hands-on activities to expose them to different types of media. They create a winter wonderland effect on windows.
Curated OER
Winter Word and Picture Matching
Here is a nicely-done reading comprehension worksheet. Young readers match seven words with their pictures. Words included are: coat, skates, scarf, snowman, mittens, snowflake, and shovel,
Curated OER
Winter Through the Arts
Students read the book The Snowy Day and discover various winter themes. In this winter instructional activity, students develop movements to express the feeling of a snowstorm. Students also construct winter-themed art pieces.
Little Giraffes Teaching Ideas
Snowman Snowman
What do snowmen eat? Or smell? Read about the senses of a snowman with a cute picture book. Kindergartners cut or fold the pages to create a story about a snowman and what he sees, smells, hears, eats, and feels.
Math Drills
Christmas Cartesian Art Santa
Santa has his eye on you in a graphing activity that has young mathematicians plot ordered pairs on a Cartesian plane. After joining the points together, a picture of jolly Santa Claus comes to life.
Curated OER
Kwanzaa Window Book
Learners research Kwanzaa, focusing on the seven principles used in celebration, with an artistic lesson. They design their own window books to demonstrate comprehension of the principles and symbols of Kwanzaa in words and pictures.
Missouri Department of Elementary
Family Traditions
Honor family traditions with a lesson that examines the variety of winter celebrations. Class members discuss their family's traditions then complete a cut-and-paste practice page in which they match a picture to the name of a holiday....
K12 Reader
Winter Attack
A pack of hungry wolves surround a panicked buffalo – who will come out alive? Have your young writers narrate this nature scene, taking the point of view of either a wolf or the buffalo. Perfect for a narrative writing unit or for your...
K12 Reader
Color the Christmas Adjectives
'Tis the season to be joyful, merry, beautiful, and red! Test young learners' knowledge of parts of speech with a festive coloring learning exercise. As they identify which words are nouns and which words are adjectives, they color each...
Curated OER
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
In this seasons worksheet, students cut out the picture cards at the bottom of the page, sort the pictures and paste them with the matching season.
Core Knowledge Foundation
Seasons and Weather: Read-Aloud Anthology
Kindergartners explore the cycle of the seasons in a 10-lesson language arts unit. Through a series of picture-supported read-aloud activities, children are able to identify the sequence of seasons and the types of weather associated...
Curated OER
Winter Picture Matching
In this picture matching worksheet, students draw lines to connect matching pictures. Pictures are of a scarf, snowmen, snowflake, ice skates, and a cloud.
Kelly's Kindergarten
January Daily Activities
Start the year right with a series of activities about phonics, reading, winter exercises, and writing. Focused on snow and winter items, a month's worth of short lessons address various skills and keep your kids practicing language arts.
Curriculum Corner
Book Study: The Mitten
Looking for a set of resources to compliment a reading of The Mitten by Jan Brett? A fun winter resource has everything from story sequencing and writing prompts to a parts of speech sort and a mitten flap book. The activities are great...
Curated OER
Winter Handwriting Worksheet
In this winter words instructional activity, students trace the winter words for scarf, sled, mittens, and coat. Students trace 4 words total.
Have Fun Teaching
When Am I? (16)
How can you tell when a story takes place? Use context clues to infer the time of day and seasons of five short reading passages. Kids then note each passage's time period as daytime or nighttime, as well as winter or summer.
K12 Reader
Visual Clues
Whether you realize it or not, reading an image and reading a text require similar skills, including the ability to make inferences. For this simple activity, children look at a picture of a snowy winter day and answer a series of...
Kelly's Kindergarten
Kelly's Kindergarten: Snow and the Letter E
It's a flurry of vowels! Learners review a series of snowflakes featuring pictures that include the letter E, glue them into place, and write the words underneath.