The new year will bring a fresh start and a fresh blanket of snow. With the holidays behind us, we will be able to enjoy winter and immerse ourselves in reading. I am always on the lookout for the best picture books that my students will enjoy and learn from.
In addition to learning science, with “Little Snowflake by Fossey Winter Water Cycle Lesson Plan” students will practice inflectional endings, master new vocabulary, develop and practice sequence, cause and effect, and much more! The lesson pack ends with students designing their own snowflakes, the templates are included.
Another all-time favorite winter book study read is: “The Littlest Yak” by Fraser Lesson Plan, a story about celebrating unique talents and mastering feelings of growing up, as well as a science read on winter, yaks, and animal habitat. This lesson pack also develops reading and writing skills in sentence development, sequence, rhyming, main idea and details, character analysis, new vocabulary, and art activities.
Finally, we will read “My Winter City” by James Gladstone. This fairly new addition to children’s literature depicts life in a city just as it is, “a soup of salty slush” with buses soaking pedestrians on the sidewalk and people shuffling through snow-covered sidewalks. The illustrations of crowded sidewalks with construction workers, randomly parked bikes, and coffee shops… living life in a snow-globe… as winter truly is experienced in the city.
Still, the kids will take all the slush and whiteouts to experience tobogganing hills and the magic of snow days. The story ends with, “That’s my winter city. What’s yours?”, which makes it a perfect writing prompt that can be (even better) accompanied by illustrations.
You can access “My Winter City” on Epic! (free for teachers), local bookstore or Amazon.com.
Have Fun Teaching!
Mrs. Lena, M.Ed.
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