"The Snowy Day"

Our next "A Five Day Read" is on the book "The Snowy Day".  Too bad all our deep snow melted the day before beginning this book as I had some great ideas using real snow.  And who ever heard of 60 degrees in NE Ohio in January!?! (and don't think I'm complaining as I am not a snow person... I like it warm)

You can see a video of the book here...

As always, I picked a letter to go with this book.  Since we've already completed Ss and Pp I decided to go with Ww since the book talks about winter weather. Here are some pictures of our letter book.

 On the left we dot markered the letter Ww and colored the wagon.  On the right we did 

some letter Ww recognition activities.

On the left we matched shapes and talked about the picture and what sound they heard

at the beginning of each picture.  On the right we circled letter Ww's, circled pictures that began

with letter Ww and traced letter Ww's.

 On the left we followed directions to color the letters or Ww pictures and then at the bottom 

we colored spaces with W green and w blue.  On the left we glued pictures into the water 

that began with the /w/ sound and we traced letter Ww's.

 On the left we dot markered the path of Ww's to help the spider find his web.  On the right

we colored each circle that had a Ww.

 On the left we made our own letter Ww's and we found pictures that began with the /w/ sound.

On the right we put a six piece puzzle of a wagon together.

To introduce the book we did two activities.

 We talked about activities we like doing in the snow and then dictated and drew our favorite.

We talked about what we wear on a snowy day and drew us in some of those clothes with a

dictated response as to what the picture shows us wearing.

Some of the art projects we did with the book...

We drew in our faces with crayons, used my marker to trace names (not washable), and then

we waterpainted ourselves on a snowy day.

 We fingerpainted with blue, added cut snowflakes which they could color, and 

put dabs of glitter with glitter glue onto the paper.

We made winter necklaces

 We made cotton ball snowmen.

 We cut snowflakes.

Some of the concepts we worked on...

 On the left we colored things you can do in the winter and circled our favorite thing.  On the right we

did a pre-writing activity from Homeschool Creations.

On the left we did some critical thinking by looking at the picture and deciding whether a sled, ice skates, roller skates, or shovel would best go with the picture.  We also drew a picture of what they could make looking at the picture (this one is a snowman).  On the right we did some predicting ~we decided which picture would come next after I read the sentence.

 We sorted winter vs. summer clothes from Homeschool Creations "The Snowy Day" pack.

We sequenced the story.

We also did a lot of number 5 activities.

 A number 5 activity sheet.

 Number puzzles.

 and a few more activity sheets.

Hope you enjoyed "The Snowy Day" as much as we did.  Next up... "Mrs. Wishy Washy's Farm".
Best,
Rose