Crazy For Snowmen: Curriculum Essentials for Math, Literacy and More!

This 125 page Snowman 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. The lessons (games or activities) included are scripted. They are written in a format that can be easily taught by the teacher or readily handed off to a parent volunteer or a classroom aide with complete confidence that common core teaching objectives will be reached. Also included are many independent activities and  independent adaptions to the scripted activities to extend learning.

Table of Contents

Scripted 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

Draw a Snowman: Reviewing Early Phonics and Phonological Skills

Independent Practice

 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

Scripted 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.

Independent Practice

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: 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

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