Snow Day Activities

Happy Snow Day! If you wish, try some of these snow day activities:Want to go outside but it’s too cold? Brighten up your room with these coffee filter snowflakes.

Write a Snow Day story using as many of your current or old spelling words. Have fun and be creative! Read this book for inspiration.

We always need to practice our addition and subtraction facts! Can you make your own flashcards?There is nothing better than curling up on the couch and snuggling up to a good book! Check out this list of Winter Books.

If it’s too cold to play outside, you can challenge yourself to create a snowman inside. Start by cutting out shapes to make several snowmen as well as accessories such as hats, pipes, and scarves. Place the shapes in a bowl or basket, and get a piece of colored paper and glue. Then randomly draw out snowman pieces to create a goofy-looking snowman. You can turn it into a contest by adding a spelling component. Have someone call out winter-related words for to spell. For each correct response, you get to draw a shape from the basket. First one to complete their snowman wins.

Create Snowflake Puzzles. Create symmetrical snowflakes by folding a white piece of paper diagonally and then twice more to form a triangle. By cutting shapes in the triangle, you can create a crystalline design that’s revealed when you unfold the snowflake. Then turn it into a snowflake puzzle by folding a darker sheet of paper in half and pasting the snowflakes along the line of symmetry. Cut each snowflake in half along the folded line, and mix the pieces. Challenge yourself to practice identifying spatial relationships by finding the missing halves of your snowflake.

Dress up a snowman. Learn about the mathematical concept of “permutations” by challenging yourself to figure out how many different color combinations you can dress a snowman in. Cut out a snowman from a piece of white paper. Next, make three hats and three scarves out of different colored construction paper. Then dress the snowman in scarves and hats of different colors. Count each of the color combinations to determine the total possible.

Create snow poetry. For centuries, poets have been inspired to create poems from nature and the seasons. A snow day is a perfect opportunity to change your kids to use their creativity to try poetry. Start by asking kids to write down all of the words they can think of that describe snow. Then have them use the words to write a poem inspired by winter. Let kids create a simple rhyme scheme poem or go to Poetry4Kids to learn how to write poems ranging from Haiku to limericks.
LAD Fair is coming! Use this site for writing ideas that can be entered into LAD Fair.
Check out this site to learn about all the different types of poems and how to create them.
Feel free to write as many different poems about winter as you wish! Check out one of my favorite poets!
Make sure you take a look at all the sites on Classroom. Review some of the skills we’ve learned in math by using the interactive sites provided.
Check out these amazing STEM activities! Remember to use the scientific method as you do the experiments.
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