First grade classrooms are bursting with boundless energy and endless curiosity.
Ditch the boredom and get ready to embrace a winter wonderland of learning! This post is your one-stop shop for transforming your classroom into a vibrant hub of discovery with 9 engaging activities.
We'll delve into the scientific wonders of winter precipitation, embark on an arctic adventure with polar animals, snuggle in with a cozy winter book bundle, and journey into history with the lives of Civil Rights heroes. We'll celebrate the 100th day with engaging stations and master math skills with winter-themed games.
January will spark creativity with a January writing station, and students will build their foundational reading skills with winter phonics. Get ready to ignite your students' imaginations and rediscover the joy of making learning an adventure!
Snowflake Facts and Fiction
Dive Deep into Winter Wonders with this Snowflakes Bundle!
This comprehensive resource equips you with everything needed to teach about snowflakes this winter. Students will explore fascinating facts about snowflake formation and their life cycle. They'll then apply their knowledge to the beloved literary classic, “The Snowy Day” by Ezra Jack Keats.
Inside this bundle, you'll find:
- Engaging visuals: Picture/vocabulary cards introduce key terms like “dendrite,” “hexagonal plate,” and more.
- Hands-on learning: Worksheets cover the snowflake life cycle, comparing temperatures, and snowflake symmetry.
- Creative expression: Writing prompts encourage students to explore their own ideas about snowflakes through “If I Were a Snowflake” and other creative activities.
- Interactive journals: Foster deeper understanding with journal prompts on water vs. snow, snow vs. sleet, and the attributes of a snowflake.
This bundle provides a fun and engaging way to explore the wonders of winter with your students!
Polar Animals
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Embark on an Arctic Adventure with this Engaging Unit!
Immerse your students in the fascinating world of Arctic animals with this interactive and low-prep resource. They'll learn about animal sizes, speeds, diets, and habitats, fostering a deeper understanding of this unique ecosystem.
This unit offers:
- Easy-to-use materials: Click and print resources make preparation a breeze, allowing for quick and efficient lesson planning.
- Hands-on activities: Engage students with interactive notebooks, graphic organizers, and fine motor skills practice through sorting and matching activities.
- Cross-curricular connections: Integrate science with language arts by incorporating writing activities like “If I Were a Polar Animal” and “In the Arctic.”
This comprehensive unit provides a captivating learning experience for students of all ages while minimizing teacher preparation time.
Winter Book Bundle
Don't Miss Out on This Incredible Winter Book Study Bundle!
For a limited time, you can save big with this special offer! Purchase this Winter “click-and-save” book study bundle and receive three complete book study units and get one FREE!
Here's what's included:
- Tacky the Penguin: Explore themes of individuality and friendship with this engaging unit featuring activities like story retelling, character analysis, and creative writing prompts.
- Sneezy the Snowman: Dive into this heartwarming story with activities focusing on story structure, character description, and creative writing about snowmen. 1 1. Sneezy the Snowman Activities – Novel Effectnoveleffect.com
- The Hat: Delve into Jan Brett's enchanting tale with activities that cover story elements, character analysis, and comparisons with another of her classic stories, “The Mitten.”
- The Mitten (FREE): Enjoy a bonus unit on “The Mitten,” also by Jan Brett, featuring similar engaging activities to the “The Hat” unit.
This bundle offers a wealth of engaging and educational activities to enhance your students' reading comprehension skills and foster a love of literature.
Don't miss out on this incredible deal!
Civil Rights Biographies
Inspire students to become cultural leaders with this bundle of four Civil Rights leader biographies! Students will explore the history and stories of Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges and Frederick Douglass.
Each biography unit will allow students to learn how each of these leaders made an impact during the Civil Rights movement for African Americans.
Each biography includes:
Cover Page (to create a packet of information for students to work through)
Biography Poster and Vocabulary Cards
3 Fact Collection Worksheets
2 Cut and Paste Timelines
2 Brainstorming Worksheets
4 Informational and Creative Writing Pages
Students will love the cut and paste activities to order the early life and civil rights timelines for each of these historical figures. This hands-on approach is highly effective and kids LOVE it!
These ready to “print and teach” activities will allow you to:
· Introduce new vocabulary with vocabulary cards
· Practice fine motor skills with cut and paste worksheets and interactive notebooks
· Compare information with graphic organizers
· Incorporate cross-curricular writing
100th Day Stations and More
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Celebrate 100 Days of Learning with Engaging Activities!
This comprehensive resource is packed with exciting activities to make your 100th Day of School a memorable celebration!
Here's what you'll find:
- Engaging Stations: Keep students active and learning with 18 engaging stations, including STEM challenges, timed challenges, and click-and-print activities.
- STEM Challenges: Encourage creativity and problem-solving with challenges like Cup Stacking, Block Building, and Geoboards.
- Timed Challenges: Add a touch of friendly competition with challenges like assembling a 100s chart and counting 100 pom-poms.
- Click-and-Print Stations: Easy-to-prepare stations like “100 Gumballs” and “Write to 100” provide engaging and independent learning opportunities.
- Writing Prompts: Inspire reflective thinking with writing prompts like “When I am 100” and “If I had $100.”
This resource provides everything you need to create a fun and educational 100th Day of School celebration that your students will cherish.
Winter Math Games
Kick Off the New Year with Engaging Winter Math Games!
Reignite your students' love for learning after the holiday break with these fun-filled print-and-go Winter math games! This unit offers a variety of independent addition and subtraction games to keep your students engaged throughout the entire month of January.
What's Included:
- Math Mystery Pictures: Unveil hidden winter scenes as students correctly solve addition and subtraction problems.
- Independent Bingo Games: Add a touch of friendly competition with these engaging bingo games that reinforce math skills.
- Tangram Puzzles: Develop spatial reasoning and problem-solving skills while enjoying the challenge of creating winter-themed tangram puzzles.
These engaging winter-themed games are perfect for math centers or independent work. Simply print and leave them out for students to enjoy all month long!
January Writing Station
Say Goodbye to “I'm Done!” with Engaging January Writing Stations
Tired of the constant struggle to find engaging writing activities for your students? This set of January writing station activities provides a diverse range of prompts that will keep your students excited about writing all month long.
Designed to Engage and Differentiate:
- Variety of Formats: With 5 unique activity formats, from free writing and look-and-draw to procedural writing and doodle drawings, these activities cater to different learning styles and keep things interesting.
- Skill-Building: These activities are designed to target specific writing skills, such as adding hooks, including details, and writing in sequence.
- Easy Differentiation: You can easily adjust the difficulty level to meet the needs of all learners, providing both challenge and support.
- Perfect for Substitutes: These engaging activities are a lifesaver for substitute teachers, providing meaningful and independent work while you're away.
What's Included:
- Format 1: Free Write: Spark creativity with inspiring titles and images like “A Giant Polar Bear was in my Backyard” and “If I Found a Talking Snowman.”
- Format 2: Look and Draw: Encourage observation and description with visually engaging pictures like “Snowflake” and “Snowman.”
- Format 3: Procedural Writing: Develop sequential thinking with prompts like “How to Build a Snowman” and “Winter Scavenger Hunt.”
- Format 4: Draw and Write: Foster creativity and narrative skills with prompts like “Cozy and Comfy” and “Melting Snowman.”
- Format 5: Doodle Drawings: Ignite imagination with prompts like “Snowflake” and “Jacket,” where students complete a drawing and write about it.
With these engaging activities, your students will eagerly anticipate writing time, making it a rewarding and enjoyable experience for everyone.
Winter Phonics Passages
Closing the reading gap is harder than ever, which means phonics and fluency are more important than ever! This set of Winter Phonics Fluency passages is part of a series of holiday themed passages that focus on sight words, decoding and reading fluency.
These Winter Phonics and Fluency passages can be used for:
- small group instruction
- independent station activities
- at home activities/homework
With three levels of difficulty for each of the 4 Winter fluency passages, there is something for all reading levels in your classroom to flex their phonics muscles:
-Short Vowel Sentences
-Short Vowel Passage
-Long Vowel Passage
BONUS, there are also 4 sight word “look and find” activities in each product that students LOVE, but also give them the extra sight word and heart word recognition practice that they need!
What's Included:
Four Topics of Winter Phonics and Fluency Passages:
*Each with three levels of difficulty (see above)
- Snowman
- Snow Fight
- Cold
- Ice Skating
BONUS: Four Winter Sight Word “Look and Find” Activities
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