Teachers-Winter Craft/Lesson/Activity?

[meliss8599]

I teach 3rd and want them to create something with a winter theme (snowflakes, snowmen, etc.) that I can display in the room. For example, using similes/metaphors for winter mounted on a snowflake template--something like that. Does anyone do anything cute and creative that still incorporates a learning activity? Thanks!

 

[luvmyfam444]

You could have them write a poem about snowflakes & write it on a snowflake. Either the acrostic kind using the letters of snowflake or diamante.

Or you could just do the cute craft & then they have to write a story about it. Something imaginative - like from the items point of view.

You can always do symmetry with snowflakes or some other math problems (multiplying holes in snowflakes with a partners)

If you look @ craftsbyamanda,com there are some cute crafts on there.

 

[lovetoscrap]

Mittens! They can trace their hands-- all the fingers for Gloves or 4 fingers together and thumb for mittens. Then they can put all sorts of things on them. I like to use wallpaper samples for this-- go to a store that sells wallpaper (a small locally owned one is best) and ask if they have any old books they would give you. But of course any paper you have would work. If you use plain paper then they can decorate them creatively. Tie or staple yarn to each set to keep them together and mimic the mittens on a string that go through a coat (do they even sell those any more?)

You can have them do matching things and do an interactive bulletin board. Have them put a simile or a metaphor on one mitten and which it is on the back of the other. Hang so the answer isn't showing and they have to lift up to get the answer.

You can have them write a noun on one and verb on the other, then have the class use those to write a sentence for each set or pick one to use as a story starter --compile the sentences or story for each mitten set and hang them with it. (don't tell them what they will be doing with the words before they write them-- keeps them from being too easy!)

With the 5 finger gloves you could have them do fact families or multiples-- put "24" in the palm and then 24x1, 12x2, 8x3, 6x4 on the fingers.

Science and Social Studies can use that same "glove" format. Main idea on the palm and then 5 facts about it on the fingers and thumb.

Title the board something like "We are Warming Up with ________ (nouns and verbs, fact families, Weather etc..)

 

[golfgal]

This won't have a learning theme but my all time favorite kid school project thing was something DS18 made in kindergarten. They took a soup can, painted them a deep blue, splattered white paint to make it look like snow was falling and painted a snowman on the can. They punched 2 holes in the top of the can and strung some glittered wire so you could hang them on a tree or whatever. I still LOVE that one.

 

[McKelly]

Memory game with compound words. Pick a winter theme, mittens, penguins, etc., make copies, write one part of a compound word on one shape and the other half on another shape, for example, write "snow" on one shape and "flake" on another, or "dog" on one shape and "house" on another. Put all of the shapes face down on the table and have them play "memory" by forming compound words. You could make several sets so the class could be broken into smaller groups.

 

[meliss8599]

Cute ideas everyone, thanks! Today we brainstormed winter themed words to help create diamante poems. They then cut out snowflakes to mount them on and I created a bulletin board that says, "Diamantes are 'snow' much fun!"

I'm looking forward to trying the other suggestions.

 

[MM27]

A do a project every year called The Snowman Construction Company. Google it and you'll find different variations of it. The idea is that the kids make a snowman and dress it and then have to be able to add up the cost of the materials. I'm actually giving this out tomorrow to my students and will give them about a week to complete it. We are on our decimal unit right now so it works out wonderfully.

I don't teach writing, but when I did I used to have the kids write a commercial for their snowman and why he/she is one that should be purchased from The Snowman Construction Company.

The kids love it and it's a great project to hang up for the winter in the hallway.