Winter Time Theme
Get ready for the cold with The Jacket I Wear in the Snow and take home a Winter Literacy Bag.
Come make some snowmen, help the winter birds find seeds, hang winter mittens from the window, and let MobiStories read a Winter story to your child.
Table of Contents for Winter
- Winter is one of the Four Seasons
- Winter Clothing
- Winter Poetry
- Writing in the Snow
- Winter Table
- Winter Math
- Icicles are Dripping
- Idea Books for Winter Math
- Match the Winter Mittens
- Wintertime Wonder Bottles
- Winter Alphabet
- Winter Time Lapbook
- Winter Time Literacy Bags
- Evelyn's Hands-On Learning Blog
- Look Who's Twittering about Winter Crafts
- Waldorf Winter Story
- What do you do in the Winter?
- About the Author of this Lens
Winter is one of the Four Seasons
Winter is one of the books in a series by Chris L. Demarest. Each of these books comes in board book format and now MobiStories makes it come alive in a Digital form that allows your child to have a story read to him wherever you go, no matter how busy your are.
January Good Morning Song
Using choral reading with predictable texts helps children to learn sight words. This winter time theme chart repeats words that the children will see in many of the picture books we read, in learning center activities and are useful when they are writing about wintertime.
- Kindergarten Snow Theme
- Poems, math and literacy activities about winter.
- Winter Ideas
- Snowy winter ideas.
Winter Clothing
How to Dress for Winter Fun
Photo Credit: Winter Paper Dolls
on Flickr, Creative Commons.
As you read through the books of the four seasons you will notice that the clothing changes. The book The Jacket I Wear in the Snow carries on that theme as a young child gets dressed up to go play in the snow.
Thematic Units for Kindergarten includes activities related to The Jacket I Wear in the Snow.
The Jacket I Wear in the Snow
- The Jacket I Wear in the Snow
- The Jacket I Wear in the Snow by Shirley Neitzel offers a quick and easy winter adventure for preschoolers. Boost your preschooler's sequencing and memory skills with this dramatic snow play adventure.
- Put the animals in the Mitten
- Color the mittens and the animals, cut out the two mittens and tape them together to make one, then cut out the animals. They can crawl right in!
Winter Games and Activities
There are winter wonders to be found from yard sales to second hand shops to Grandma's attic when looking for games to play related to the winter theme.
Here are a few from Ebay.
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Experiencing Winter Snow
Winter Snow without the cold
Insta-Snow is a great way for young children to experience the texture of snow in climates where it's too warm for snow.
Just put some in the Sensory Table and let the children explore the snow.
Insta -Snow is a superabsorbant polymer.
Winter Poetry
Time for Winter Poetry
- When All the World is Full of Snow
- I never know
Just where to go,
When all the world
Is full of snow.
I do not want
To make a track,
Not even
To the shed and back.
I only want
To watch and wait,
While snow moths settle
On the gate,
And swarming frost flakes
Fill the trees
With billions
Of albino bees.
I only want
Myself to be
As silent as
A winter tree,
To hear the swirling
Stillness grow,
When all the world
Is full of snow.
-N.M. Bodecker-
Writing in the Snow
The texture of snow invites all kinds of exploration, from writing with a stick on a lightly covered sidewalk to following animal tracks around the farm and into the woods.
We like to play Fox and Geese in the snow. We sometimes use a circle but also have tried using geometric shapes. Triangles are exciting as the children try to stay on the path that sharply doubles back at the triangle's points when the fox is right behind them.
After making the shapes in the snow we like to go upstairs and look down on the shapes in order to get a birdseye view of them. Compare them to the Nazca Lines in the Nazca Desert of Peru and the mazes made in cornfields.
If there is no snow where you live children can still have fun with the theme by making animal tracks in white playdough with their plastic animals.
Winter Mittens
You can use the mitten accents to write words from the Winter book and teach even quite young children how to play matching games such as Concentration. Add the color words to each mitten to help your child start to become familiar with the words.
Jan Brett is a wonderful illustrator whose snowy winter scenes make you shiver with the cold. Each page gives hints as to who else will be arriving to climb into the mitten. You can have the children color pictures of the animals and put them in the Mitten. Write the name of each animal on the back and then laminate them.
Winter Books for Teachers
Merry Christmas, Snowman on Sled
Buy at AllPosters.com
Many more ideas for teaching and exploring the Winter Time in classrooms, daycares and for homeschoolers.
Homeschooling families will appreciate that the Kids Winter Handbook is for older children and will tie the activities of the younger children with those of their older siblings.
Crafts for Winter
1. Make a template and help your child trace around the mitten. Tracing helps children strengthen their fine motor skills in preparation for learning to write.
2. Use a hole punch to make the lacy pattern around the edge. This activity could be done by an older child if it is to difficult for your preschooler.
3. Cut a heart shape out of a potato cut in half and use it to stamp the red hearts.
4. Hang the mittens in the window to show off the outdoor winter scene.
Crafts To Make In The Winter (Ross, Kathy, Crafts for All Seasons.)
Amazon Price: $24.90 (as of 11/10/2009) 
Winter Table
- Bluebirdbaby: Winter Nature Table
- As I mentioned before, our temporary nature table was on top of the little one's play kitchen. It was kind of in that "end of fall, not quite winter" mode. After being buried by 11 inches of snow (yes, eleven)...
- Waldorf Without Walls - Waldorf Science
- In the early grades in a Waldorf School, science is not taught as science. The young child still regards herself at one with the world and so, for the young child, observing nature, hearing stories about nature and playing with natural materials is developmentally appropriate.
She is connected to the world, and we want to keep her that way. Science for children of all ages should be taught as an experiential observation of phenomena - not giving answers but leaving the children with the questions. So when your child asks, "Why%u2026," say, "I wonder%u2026."
It is important that we as adults not be too attached to explaining everything scientifically to children, but to allow them to enjoy experiencing the phenomena. Those imaginative individuals who were able to overlook the "science" of their contemporaries and develop new and better explanations for the same phenomena have made the best discoveries in science.
Thus imagination can be more important than explanation.
Winter Calendar
If you have been doing the Calendar with your children they are ready for a more advanced pattern.
Winter Math
Paper Snowflakes can be made by folding paper first in half and then in thirds to form 6 points. Talk about how 2x3=6 and practice Skip Counting by 2's and 3's.
Hang gauze curtains in the windows and then you can pin your paper snowflakes or other winter cutouts onto the curtains.
Math for Winter, Grades 1-2 (Daily Problem Solving, 44)
Amazon Price: (as of 11/10/2009)
Hungry Winter Birds
Winter Birds Math Workjob
1. Put 5 birds in the trees.
2. One bird flies down to get some birdseed.
3. 5-1=4 birds in the trees.
Winter Time Penguin Math
1. Place 7 penguins on the iceberg. (chunks of Styrofoam).
2. Two penguins dive into the water to catch some fish.
3. How many penguins are left on the iceberg?
- Pipe Cleaner Penguins
- Create your own march of the penguins by crafting a group of these adorable cold-climate creatures You can make adults with the directions given in this link or cut the pipe cleaners in half to make baby birds.
Icicles are Dripping
Winter Math Mats
The icicles are dripping. Count the drips.
One drip falls off the icicle. 0+1=1
One more drip falls off the icicle. 1+1=2
One more drip falls off the icicle.2+1=3
Variation:
You could make the drips fall 2 and Skip Count by 2's.
Weather (DK Eyewitness Books)
Amazon Price: $10.87 (as of 11/10/2009)
Idea Books for Winter Math
Winter Unit Study Activities
Math for Winter, Grades 1-2 (Daily Problem Solving, 44)
Amazon Price: (as of 11/10/2009)
Reading, Language & Math Activities: Winter
Amazon Price: $19.99 (as of 11/10/2009)
Match the Winter Mittens
Ask the children to:
Trace around their hands and then around their fingers.
Write multiplication problems on the hands and the answer on the mitten.
Laminate the hands and mittens.
Now help the hands warm up by putting the mittens on the correct hands.
- Multiplication File Folder Games
- Match the Hands to the Mittens.
Winter Glyphs
Glyphs are a pictorial form of data collection. You might be reminded of the term "hieroglyphics" and think about early picture writing. Different forms of glyphs are used in many medical situations to quickly record data about a patient in pictorial form. For example, a dentist records cavities on a picture of teeth. A chiropractor might record injuries or muscle aches on a skeletal picture. In these cases, a "picture is worth a thousand words" and the glyph allows a doctor to more quickly record and analyze the data.
- Mathwire.com | Winter Math Activities
- Students in elementary school often create paper art projects for different seasons or holidays. It is easy to transform these traditional projects into mathematical glyphs that allow students to organize and analyze data over several visits.
- Winter Units
- at The Virtual Vine
- Winter Theme
- Mrs. Beggs'KindergartenJanuary Theme IdeasSnow & Penguins Home
Back Math Center- Students were to play Roll a Snowman between their group. When they finished that they made a pattern block snowman.
Science Center - Students here made igloo's out of toothpicks and mars - Roll-a-Snowman
- Take turns rolling a die. First one to finish rolling and drawing a snowman is the winner.
More Winter Ideas
You can graph mittens or gloves that the children wear into school.
How many children wear mittens?
How many children wear gloves?
How many more children wear mittens than gloves?
Another day you might make a graph of the colors of mittens.
What other characteristics could you use to make a graph.
- Winter Ideas - PreKinders
- Pre-K ideas for learning about the winter season.
- Snow
- Pass the Ice Cube to the tune of Row, Row, Row your Boat
Wintertime Wonder Bottles
Winter Time Discovery Bottles
Add snowflake buttons to discovery bottles and watch the snow fall.
Discovery Bottles
The purpose and goal of these bottles is to sharpen observation and fine motor skills and is fun for kids of all ages! Children love twirling, spinning and flipping the bottles searching for specific items hidden in the sand.
Create a list of "items to search for" for the younger children and "Clues" to figure out the items for older children. Different types of bottles can be used for the older and younger children with different amounts of sand to make it easier or harder.
Children love to wear protective goggles and lab coats (Men's White Shirts) and pretend to be Scientists as they search for objects.
Wintertime Wonder Bottles
Winter Time Discovery Bottles
Children love to wear protective goggles and lab coats (Men's White Shirts) and pretend to be Scientists as they search for objects.
- Kinder Friends: Discovery Center
- Discovery Bottles Discovery Bottles are soda bottles filled with various items to explore a
scientific concept. Some of the bottles, such as the relaxation, glitter, corn syrup and wave bottle, also work in your "safe place" to calm
students. - Lesson Plans: Discovery Bottles (Elementary, Science)
- Discovery bottles encourage the development of observation skills, predictability, scientific concepts, and thinking skills.
- Alaskalink.US Family Resource Center
- Wonder Bottles
Stimulate your baby's senses with toys you make yourself.
Winter Time Lapbook
From Enchanted Learning
- Templates for making Lapbooks
- Organize your unit study information.
- ENCHANTED LEARNING HOME PAGE
- Enchanted Learning Software creates children's educational web sites and games designed to stimulate creativity, learning, enjoyment, and imagination.
Winter Time Literacy Bags
The Winter Bear is ready to go home and tell your child's parents all about the wonderful adventures that he is having at school.
1. Children read the stories with family members.
2. Choose an activity to do.
3. Play the Harvest Game where everyone helps to bring in the crops before Winter comes.
4. Sort the Winter Beads, make patterns or number stories.
5. Write about the adventures that the Winter Bear had at the child's home.
6. Bring the Literacy Bag back to class Monday to share Winter Bear's adventures with the rest of the class.
Tote Bags for Winter Time Literacy Bags
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Raccoons in the Corn
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Waldorf Winter Story
Animals Hybernate in Winter
Winter Waldorf Story with BLOOPER :)
www.THEWaldorfChannel.com - This is an example of a nice Winter Waldorf Story to tell your class. Watch until the end...there is a nice BLOOPER at the end that shows my "first take" on this video...These projects are also useful for children not following a Waldorf program. Contact Kristie at herbnhome@yahoo.com for information on Waldorf Enrichment in your home. Waldorf education can enrich your child's educational experience.
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