Winter inquiry kindergarten

Lifecycle of Snow - all about how snow is made - curious about snow for kindergarten and first grade science - evaporation - water vapor - snowflakes - crystals - print FREE activities - freebie printables to teach all about winter and snow #kindergarten #firstgrade #kindergartenscience

Add these Winter Montessori Activities to your day to bring hands on learning with a Winter theme. Perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarten and early elementary. With Winter literacy activities, fine motor activities, number recognition, preschool and kindergarten math activities, and so much more. Also includes Movement Activities, Montessori Preschool Activities and Winter Montessori 3 Part Cards

Have you read Jan Brett's new book called The Snowy Nap? It is about Hedgie (the hedgehog from The Hat) trying to stay up to see what his animal friends do during the winter before he hibernates. If you haven't seen this book, you must check it out! Jan Brett's books and illustrations are always so captivating for kids and adults alike. I love the little cut out pictures on the side and how you can talk about what is happening in the side pictures while the characters are doing something…

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Winter in an elementary classroom can either be full of fun and chaos or feel like it’s never going to end, so it’s important to plan activities that will hold your student’s attention from December to February. STEM activities are a great way to get your students excited about learning and incorporate some fun, hands-on […]

Explore over and under concepts in block center or as STEM activity in this book expansion activity; for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Perfect for a snow or winter theme.

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Preschool Activities for learning about Animals in Winter

Project/Inquiry Based Learning has been a passion of mine ever since I discovered it about 5 years ago. Since then, I have stepped out of my comfort zone and transformed the way I teach from a typical Thematic Based style through baby steps taken each year and with the help of an amazing on-line community of teachers with the same passion (you all know who you are!). My first baby step was taking themes and science/social studies standards and making them more student lead and project based…

I showed the students the book called “Snowflakes” by: Kenneth Libbrecht. It is a collection of magnified snowflake pictures taken in various coloured backgrounds. The students were captivated by the beauty that they saw in each picture. They “looked closely” and were able to see just how unique each snowflake was. As a learning extension, the students chose a snowflake from the book to sketch, paying close attention to the number of lines, type of pattern, and shape of their chosen…