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Snowman Thematic Unit

The Snowman cross-curricular unit is divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, science, independent practice, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. Your students will think learning is "snow fun!"

This complete Snowman Unit is filled with games and activities that your classroom or homeschool students will love, and will offer you numerous curriculum options that will tie academic learning to a snowman theme.

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Literacy Activities:

• Snowman Spill: Automaticy of Lowercase Letter Sounds

• Snowman Match-up: Matching Letters and Sounds

• Build a Snowman: Blending and Segmenting Words

• Snowman Melt: Reading High Frequency Words

• Snowman Melt: Identifying Alphabet letters

• Draw a Snowman: Reviewing Early Phonics and Phonological Skills

• My Favorite Things: Identifying Medial Sounds

• Beginning Sounds: Identifying and Writing Beginning Sounds

• A-Z: Fluently Connecting Dots From a-z.

• Writing the Alphabet A-Z and a-z: Practicing Alphabet Letter Formation

Math Activities:

• Snowball Fight: Comparing Numbers

• The Snowman's Buttons: Decomposing Numbers

• Snowman Sets: Joining Sets Using a 10 Frame Strategy

• Snowman Sums: Making a Sum of 10 Using an Unknown and a KnowN Addend With Visual Representation.

• Symmetry Snowman: Symmetry Activity

• Snowman Puzzles: Using Geometric Shapes to Construct a Snowman

• The Tallest Snowman: Measurement

• Snowman Number Hunt: Matching Quantity and Numerals

• Math Journal Prompt (Labels): Joining Sets

Guided Reading Books

• The Snowmen (Level B)

• The Snowmen (Level C)

Writing Prompts/Word Wall

• My Snowman

• How To Build a Snowman

• Snowman Word Wall

• Snowman Label-it (3 Levels)

Science

• The Melting Snowman: Observing States of Matter

• Science Journal Page: Why does the sun melt the snowman?

Art Projects

• Snowman Gallery Art Show

• Marshmallow Snowman

• Shape Snowman

• Painted Snowman Portfolio Sample

Songs

• Five Little Snowmen

• I'm a Little Snowman

• Drawing a Snowman

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Writing Center Resources for Winter

Are you looking for engaging writing activities that can be set up in your permanent writing, phonics, word work, literacy center, writing work station, or literacy centers by any name? You will be so excited about this time-saving easy to differentiate resource!

Simply set up your space, and change monthly or thematically to meet your needs. Click on the preview above to see the anchor cards included and idea for classroom set up. Find out more about setting up a writing center here.Contents Include:

• Can Have Are Labels & Worksheets

• Write a Story Task Card

• Write a Story Worksheets

• Label-It Task Card

• Label-It Student Worksheets

• Make a List Task Card

• Make a List Student Worksheet

• Make a List Word Wall

• Write The Room Task Card- Sight Words

• Write the Room Word Cards

• Write the Room Task Card- Alphabet

• Write the Room Word Cards

• Write the Room Worksheets

• Backwards Words Task Card

• Backwards Words Worksheets

• Backwards Word Word Cards

• QR Words/Letters Task Card

• QR Words/Letters Worksheets

• QR Sight Words

• QR Alphabet Letters

• Writing CVC Words

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Students will read more quickly and effectively when given appropriate strategies for reading and instructed how to match those strategies to each reading situation. There are many important strategies to learn. This set focuses on the strategies that will enhance student reading during Guided Reading experiences.

This set includes strategy cards that you can use in your classroom to remind students of the strategies as you learn them. Also included are posters that you can use to teach each strategy. Print the posters on large paper if possible and display them where the class can see them. If you are using them in a whole group lesson you can print smaller versions. Each poster is followed by a lesson plan that will help you teach each reading strategy.

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Happy New Year Thematic Unit is filled with Curriculum Essentials for Math, Literacy, and More: Featuring Clocks, Calendar and New Year's Fun

New Year unit is divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, independent practice, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. 

Literacy Activities:

New Year Lotto: Matching Upper & Lowercase Letters

The Party Palace: Blending & Segmenting Words

Happy New Year: Naming Letter Sounds

New Year Raceway: Reading Sightwords Fluently

Math Activities:

New Year Clocks: Matching Time to The Hour

Moving Hands: Manipulating a Clock to Tell Time

New Year's Bear Party: Joining Groups of Objects

Happy Friday Dance: Constructing & Using a Calendar

Countdown: Counting Backwards From a Given Number 0-20

Independent Practice

New Year Balloons: Reading Color Words

What Time Is It? Reading Analog Clocks and Writing Times Digitally

Fix The Clock: Drawing Hands on an Analog Clock

Firework Number Match: Matching Numerals 11-20 to a 10+Number

January Calendar: Trace & Write Numerals

Party Time: Matching Upper and Lowercase Letters

Art Projects

Party Hat & Streamers

Cone New Year's Hat

Baby New Year/GrandFather Time Flip-it

Writing Prompts/Word Wall

Happy New Year

What Will Happen This Year?

Happy New Year Word Wall

Songs/Fingerplays

A New Year

Months of the Year Song

Days of the Week Song

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Happy New Year

Tick Tock

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