Winter word strips

Snowglobe booklet and vocabulary

(I put this together with grade 2 in mind, the writing can be simplified for grade 1)

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I originally saw this idea on Pinterest - you have to check it out under education, tons of visual teaching ideas, many go beyond "cute" and are sound teaching practice.

Here are my thoughts on some pre-writing ideas:

Pass a snowball around the circle singing the snowman song (a silly poem we chant, see below), how many times around can we go before it melts?

Ask students to describe the snow and record students ideas, providing the French vocabulary terms.

What kind of snow is best for snowballs?  Tobogganing? Does snow have a sound?  A smell?  A taste?

What do you like to do in the snow (record on chart paper)?

Read "La neige parfaite" by Barbara Reid 

What would you consider "perfect" snow?  (no snow!)

If possible display and let students handle snowglobes.

Snowman poem (to sequence and assemble) 

I love buttons and use them a ton in crafts and as currency on my classroom. 

This was one of those last days of school what have I got on hand kind of things.

Printmaking with styrofoam plates.  Student draw a very simple image into the foam with a ball point pen.

Run a brayer over it with print making ink (I think thick tempura paint will work too).  Print onto paper or fabric.

A parent volunteer and I sewed them, that part was a little crazy and I may not do it again!

Christmas when you're done booklet.pdf

I am really and truly not a fan of this kind of busy work but that last month of December when we were only in school for 2 weeks and there were musical rehearsals and assemblies and all kinds of interruptions having this in their desk was kind of nice.

Pere noel song book.pdf

This is a very old song, I haven't been able to find a recorded copy of it anywhere.  There are some teeneage girls singing it on youtube but you'll have to do the search, they sound really bad so I'm not putting the link here!  Great little song about Papa Noël getting dressed.

I have a smart board component too and will have to post those.

Christmas 5 Senses book.pdf

Christmas Five Senses Book.  We start with the sense of taste in November to coincide with a food unit and

then briefly touch on all of the senses for those few weeks in December.

This is another texture type book.

We add cotton balls for the beard, sprinkle cinnamon on the gingerbread man, attach bells for

that page, draw presents and so on.

As I look at these photos I see that I put "le barbe" and it is "la" and whoevers work this is he was supposed to write,

"Je touche la barbe de . . . ".  Very funny.  I have changed the error in the file!

Sport de l'hiver chanson.pdf

To the tune of "Sur le pont", book to complete.  There are two versions, one requires students to draw a picture, in the other the pictures are already there.  By the end of February our small group literacy development groups have spent a week learning each of the sound blends.  This song seems simple but it is a great review of some of the sounds.  We encourage the students to always look for those sound blends and so they are once again thrilled to find an "in" and an "eau" and so on in this book.

Our classes do an outdoor pursuit unit in February.  The students go skating and snowshoeing in the school yard.  I plan to add a the photos of each student doing those activities to our books too.

And a new version contributed by Paola of Primary Success:

Livre de l'hiver Paola.pdf

We had a lot of fun making these shape trees before Christmas. Students could build a tree using only circles, squares, triangles and rectangles. They then had to count them up and write about their trees. So cute!