Snowballs: Teaching Ideas and Resources

Lois Ehlert's beautiful picture book Snowballs provides the context for a flurry of activities, games, crafts and rhymes focusing on all things snow. Snowballs, snow people, and snowflakes take center stage. As children jump into the winter spirit, they learn new sight words, sequence, discover patterns, create, sing, dance, construct simple sentences, count by tens, and extend their knowledge of alphabet and number concepts.

Book:
Snowballs

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Preschool Activities:

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Literacy Activity: Snowballs

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Let It Snow ABC Letter Matching	Snowman Blends /st/, /sn/	A Snowman Sat in the Snow Booklet
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Snowman What's Under Your Hat? Sight Words Game	A Snowman Sat in the Snow Writing	Snow Globe Sorting Long and Short O Words
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Upper and Lowercase ABC Snowmen Building	Snowman Writing Activities	Building a Snowman Sequencing
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Snow Globe CVC Words

Emergent Readers:

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A Snowman Sat in the Snow Story Book	Stanley the Snowman Emergent Reader

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10 Little Snowmen Write Numbers	10 Little Snowmen Booklet	Snowman Parts Counting
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Snowmen 1-10 Connect Counting to Cardinality	Build a Snowman Number Match 1-15	More Than, Less Than, Equal to Snowball Game
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Snowball Pattern Folder Game	Counting Snowballs by Tens

Snowman crafts:

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Puff Paint Snowman Art	Snowman Snow Globes	Book: Snowballs Artwork
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Snow People Self-Portraits	Snow Person on a Stick	Snowman Peaking in the Window

Snowman Rhymes, Songs, and Movement:

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10 Little Snowmen (Numbers 1-10)	A Snowman Sat in the Snow Sight Words Felt Story	Five Little Snowmen Felt Rhyme
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I'm a Little Snowman Felt Rhyme	Ten Little Snowballs Felt Rhyme