Lesson Plan
Lakeshore Learning

Fun in the Snow

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Celebrate the arrival of winter with a reading of Jack Ezra Keats' book The Snowy Day. Engaging children by asking them about their own experiences in the snow, the teacher goes on to read the story...
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Snow Day

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine the effects of a snow day on various people in the community. They listen to the book "Snow Day" by Betsy Maestro, complete a graphic organizer of people affected by the snow day, and write a story from the point of...
Worksheet
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International Children's Book Day

For Students 5th - 10th
Celebrate International Children's Book Day using this resource. Learners complete activities, such as reading a passage, sequencing, unscrambling sentences, writing questions, conducting surveys, and writing. Students complete twelve...
Activity
PBS

Reading Adventure Pack: The Snowy Day

For Parents K Standards
Scholars listen to a read-aloud of fiction and nonfiction books, The Snowy Day, written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats, and Snow Is Falling, written by Franklyn Branley and illustrated by Holly Keller, then take part in four creative...
Lesson Plan
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Snow Day

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this seasonal worksheet, students complete activities having to do with snow. A word search, a maze, and a short answer question all pertain to snow and winter vocabulary.
Writing
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Snowy Day Story Starter

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this story starter worksheet, students look at a picture of a snowy day and read a sentence provided. Students continue by finishing the story.
Organizer
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Snow Day

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this writing worksheet, learners fill out a brainstorming graphic organizer about a snow day. They are then prompted and guided through writing a first and final draft of a paragraph using their ideas.  
Worksheet
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The Snow Day: Writing Practice

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this finish the story activity worksheet, students read an unfinished short story entitled "The Snow Day". Students use the lines provided to finish the story as they wish.
Worksheet
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Weather Words

For Students K - 1st
Weather and the days of the week are the focus on a fun kindergarten activity. Using a word bank with weather words, kids match the pictures of snow, wind, rain, and sun to their correct terms. They then draw a picture for the weather...
Article
PBS

Tiger of the Snows: Tenzing Norgay

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa man who made history when he reached the summit of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary, is the focus of an informative article. Class members read about Norgay's perspective on the way up the mountain, the...
Writing
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Writing Prompt: Snow Day

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this writing prompt worksheet, students write based on a given prompt about waking up one morning and finding everything covered in snow. Pages are lined for writing.
Interactive
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Snow Falling on Cedars Quiz

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
Study Guide
Spark Notes

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson: Study Guide - Mini Essays

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive literature learning exercise, learners respond to 8 short answer and essay questions about David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars. Students may check some of their answers online.
Worksheet
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"Playing in the Snow" - Reading Comprehension (Poem)

For Students 5th - 7th
Have your English language learners puzzle through this activity. Class members read the incomplete poem about playing in the snow and use the given words to complete poem. This is challenging since some of the spaces are ambiguous. Ask...
Writing
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March Journal Prompts

For Students 2nd - 7th
Engage your class in writing right away during the month of March. This resource provides writing prompts for every day in March, and each is decorated with a shamrock. For most of the prompts, learners use creative writing skills,...
Lesson Plan
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Let it Snow!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students participate in various activities in the snow to determine how snow affects our lives, what we wear in the snow, and what activities we can enjoy in the snow. Lesson includes many resource links.
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Drinkable Snow

For Teachers K - 4th
Young scholars explore snow. In this forms of water lesson, students read a story about snow, identify the types of snow found in Alaska, and learn Inuit words for snow. The lesson calls for an Intuit Elder to visit the classroom as a...
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When (Seasons, Day, or Night)

For Teachers K Standards
Practice identifying the setting with a reading activity. Kindergartners find the setting of a story by observing when the story takes place. They read the book Look! Snow! by Kathryn O. Galbraith and decide in which season the story...
Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - Sapporo Snow Festival

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this everyday editing learning exercise, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the Japanese snow festival known as Sapporo. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Kelly's Kindergarten

May Daily Activities

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Five weeks of daily activities for the month of May! With a new activity for each day of the month, your youngsters will utilize a variety of skills and practice everything from sight words and spelling to counting by twos or coloring...
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What is April Fool's Day?

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners explore humor by creating their own practical joke. In this April Fool's Day lesson, students read different situations in which practical jokes were taken too far. Learners discuss their reactions to the jokes and identify when...
Lesson Plan
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Weather with Pink Snow and Other Weird Weather

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore different kinds of weather. In this weather lesson, 3rd graders discover the different ways humans protect themselves from weather.  Students read the book Pink Snow and Other Weird Weather by Jennifer...
Writing
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Snowy Day Story Starter

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this creative writing worksheet, students study a picture of a child in a snowy scene. Students read the first sentence which is provided, then finish writing the rest of the story.
Activity
PBS

The Cat in the Hat Activity Exploring Weather

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Observe different types of weather right in your classroom! Here, pupils look at clouds, rain, snow, wind, and hot and cold temperatures, and observe these weather patterns at school. They keep track of their observations in a worksheet...