A Snowstorm of Snow Poems, Plays, Free Resources, and Activities

Everyone is fascinated by snowflakes. Kids want to catch them on their tongues and make them out of paper. Living in Alaska there was plenty of snow but I still loved to go outside and catch snowflakes, especially with my students. I also loved to read books about snow. One of my favorites was "Snip, Snip. Snow!" by Nancy Poydar. It's about a girl named Sophie who is waiting for it to snow. Everyday she has to wear all her winter clothes because it's very cold but no snow. Although the weatherman forecast snow, she wakes up the next morning and there's no snow. When she gets to school she asks her teacher if they can make snowflakes. While they were cleaning up all the paper scraps from the floor, she looks outside the window and sees snow. Sophie is so excited and finally gets to have fun in the snow. I found a free activity packet from Shawna Devoe to go with this book that you can download by clicking HERE.

If you are looking for some fun Snowflake craft ideas, I have found a few websites for you. You can find some by clicking on the image below. You will find all the directions for making this pretty snowflake.

I also found this great website with 30 ideas for making snowflakes. Just click on the image below.

If you are interested in having your students examine snowflakes as they fall, you can click on the image below to get some ideas and activities.

I  finally finished remaking my Snow Poetry and Plays Packet and added more poems, writing, and literacy activities, plus a 2nd Snow Play. Most of you know how much I love to write poetry and plays as well as use them for building fluency and incorporating the 5 key components of a Balanced Literacy program. You can read the description and download the Preview file by clicking on the image below. The Preview file has sample pages of all the poems and activities in the packet.

If you are interested in Winter Poems and Plays you can check out my blog post by clicking HERE.

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Hooray for Summer: Free Resources, Printables, and Activities

For those of you who have finished your school year-Congratulations!. I hope you will have a wonderful relaxing summer. For those of you who are parents of school age children, still teaching or may be teaching Summer School, I have put together some great summer reading activities, free crafts and activities that you may want to check out. Some of these websites give great ideas to help stop the summer slide.

First is Scholastic. Parents can find a free global reading program aimed to keep kids reading all summer long. Just click on the picture below to find out how to access it.

Next is Reading Rockets: It is packed with so many great ideas and websites to explore. Just click on the picture below to check it out." Reading Rockets has packed a "virtual beach bag" of activities for teachers to help families get ready for summer and to launch students to fun, enriching summertime experiences. Educators will find materials to download and distribute as well as ideas and resources to offer to students and parents to help ensure summer learning gain rather than loss" 

How about 24 themed books and activities for summer learning? You can find them at Start with a Book by clicking on the picture below.

If you are looking for some free poems and songs you can find them at Dltk as well as free printable at Dltk. You can also find some summer printables such a s Kids Journals by clicking HERE.

You may also want to check out my "Hooray for Summer" Literacy Center Activities by clicking on the picture below. It is completed revised and updated with 2 new activities. There are 6 Literacy Center Activities and 2 Whole Class Activities to assess your students' fluency with ELA CCSS. You can see all the materials and activities included in this packet by clicking on the picture below. If you download the Preview you will also get a free activity. 

I've also included a free activity for my wonderful followers and viewers called: "Hooray for Summer: Making Words and Sentences." You can download your freebie by clicking on the picture below.

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What are you looking forward to the most this summer?