Winter Theme

Book List

• The Mouse That Jack Built
• Winter
• The Big Snow
• Animals in Winter
• The Hat
• The Mitten
• The Snowy Day
• The Snowman
• The Snowman storybook
• I Am Snow
• Winter is Here
• Amy Loves The Snow
• It’s Melting
• The Jacket I Wear In The Snow
• Seasons
• Froggy Gets Dressed
• Here Comes The Snow
• White Snow, Bright Snow
• Clifford’s First Snow
• Friendly Snowman
• Snow Day
• Six Snowy Sheep
• Winter Rabbit
• Geraldine’s Big Snow
• The Black Snowman
• Warm In Winter
• The First Snowfall
• Keep Looking
• Frosty
• Emily and the Snowflake
• Boots
• Shoveling Snow
• Wild Weather

Winter Poems

A chubby little snowman
Had a carrot nose
Along came a bunny
And what do you suppose
That hungry little bunny
Looking for his lunch
Ate that little snowman’s nose
Nibble, nibble, crunch


Five little men all made of snow
Five little snowmen in a row
Out came the sun and shone all day
And one little snowman melted away.


Five little snowmen
Cold from head to toe
Funny little snowmen
Smiling in the snow

Dance like snowflakes, Dance like snowflakes
In the air, in the air
Whirling, whirling, twirling, Whirling whirling twirling
To the ground, to the ground.
(tune:  Where is Thumbkin?)

I’m a little snowman
Short and fat
Here are my buttons
Here is my hat
When the sun comes out
I cannot stay
Slowly I just melt away.
(tune:  I’m a little teapot)

Activities:

• 1. Snowman magnet- paint a jumbo craft stick white. Add a hat, eyes, and a scarf. Put a magnet on the back.
• 2. We make an igloo for the winter unit and the Polar unit that comes next. We make the igloo out of gallon plastic jugs. You start with 20 jugs and hot glue together, leave an opening for a door. Make three levels of 20 jugs, then start coming in.
• 3. Snowball vocabulary game-I make a snowball out of white yarn. When it gets tossed to you, you have to say a winter word.
• 4. We freeze water in plastic and glass and discuss why the glass broke.
• 5. Sock snowman- Using a white tube sock, turn inside out. Stuff the very bottom 1/2 with beans and the rest with stuffing. Tie the top and fold the sock over. Then divide the snowman into three balls with two strings. Add a baby sock for a hat and add buttons, etc to decorate. The kids love these!
• 6. Graph favorite winter activities.
• 7. Make hot chocolate with marshmallows after playing out in the cold one day.
• 8. We make popsicles to see if Kool Aide freezes like water.
• 9. We make snowflakes out of hexagons.
• 10. After reading the book, Snowballs, I send home 3 small paper plates stapled together and ask them to make them into snowmen as creatively as they can. We also make bird feeders out of pinecones, peanutbutter, and birdseed.
• 11. We experiment with sand and salt on ice.
• 12. We made snow scenes and painted them with a snow mixture. The mixtures is 1 cup salt, 1/2 cup flour, and 3/4 cup water.
• 13. I trace one of the students and add winter clothes to it. The students color it and then we label it for picture and words. This goes with the book, The Jacket I Wear In The Snow.
• 14. Winter Clothes Relay- Have a race where the students have to put on the winter clothes and then run back.
• 15. We made puppets to act out The Mitten. But my kids’ favorite was acting out the story using a sheet to get under for the mitten.
• 16. We made the puppets to The Hat and acted out. I didn’t do this this year, but you could act out using the clothing the animals wore.
• 17. Make snowflakes out of green pepper prints in white paint.
• 18. Put snow (shaving cream) on their tables/desks and have them write or draw in it. I had them do picture and words in it and they loved it!!!
• 19. Make snowflakes out of wagon wheel pasta. We will be spray painting them white or gold.
• 20. Make snowflakes out of the ends of computer paper. Return to Home Page