5 Delightful Winter Activities to Bring Winter Fun Into Your Classroom
What is the best winter activity? The chilly season is not just a time for cozying up indoors; it’s an opportunity for our little learners to explore the wonders of winter through some delightful educational activities.
The weather is unpredictable, so you can’t always head outdoors. So having winter activities for students indoors on hand is a life-saver. Who says you have to go outside to do winter activities?!
Looking for winter activities for students? I have you covered!
Here are five winter-themed resources to do with your students this season.
Fun Back-to-School Activities After Winter Break | Winter Sports Activities
Be the teacher they remember with these engaging Winter Sports Activities! You will have plenty to do in writing, reading, math, and science! Kids will have a blast learning about winter sports, traditions, and symbols! The Winter Sports Interactive Notebook is included in this bundle! Check it out!
Back to School After Winter Break STEM Activities Winter Challenge | Ice Skating
This is a fun winter STEM activity to engage your students in using academic skills to solve real-world problems! This will enhance learning about winter sports during the Winter Olympics. Try this ice skating-themed activity where students will learn about ice skating, skates, magnets, number patterns, force, and motion while designing a magnetic ice skater that follows number patterns around a rink.
Winter Writing Activities and Crafts
Are you looking for some engaging winter writing center activities and crafts? I have you covered with these printables!
Winter Literacy Center activities are included in this download:
- Adjectives printable
- Discovering /ow/ sounds
- My Snowman Came to Life Writing
- Draw Yourself in a Snow Globe and Write about What to do if You Were Trapped
- How to Start a Snowball Fight using Pictures and Transition Words Graphic Organizer
- How to Start a Snowball Fight with a focus on the CLOSING
- How to Start a Snowball Fight Finished
- How to Build a Snowman Graphic Organizer
- How to Build a Snowman Graphic Organizer
- How to Build a Snowman with Transition Words
- Intermediate Lined (How to Build a Snowman)
- Primary Lined (How to Build a Snowman)
- Build a Snowman PARTS (to actually build one on construction paper)
- Winter Word Scramble (make words using Winter Snowman)
- Draw a Snowman Steps (Pages 17 and 18)
- Winter Sports Mini Book (Page 19)
- Winter Sports Prompts (Pages 20 & 22)
- Spin a Snowman Directions (Page 22)
- Spinner (Page 23)
- Draw and Write (Using the spinner game, Page 24)
- Example of expected outcome (Page 25)
- Rubric (Page 26)
- Certificates (Page 27)
- Example of Snow Globe Craftivity (Page 28)
After Winter Break Activity | Hot Chocolate Stand PBL | Project-Based Learning
Looking for a fun PBL to engage your students in using academic skills to solve real-world problems? Try this engaging two-week unit on how to make a successful Hot Cocoa stand. They will learn math skills, teamwork, build a model, design a hot chocolate stand, and end with a group presentation to entice investors to give them funding for their project.
Plus, project-based learning is a great way to incorporate standards!
Winter Penguin Math and Literacy Worksheets | Craft
Looking for some engaging activities and penguin themed printables to go along with your penguin unit? I have you covered with this packet! You’ll find links, printables for math and literacy, center ideas, crafts, home habitat projects and more. Check out the preview!
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