Ezra Jack Keats Snowy Day Lesson Ideas
Every year, January means SNOW!
Ezra Jack Keats Snowy Day Lesson Ideas: Reading
There are so many book choices!
We love The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. You can find our Guiding Readers Lesson Plans for this book HERE.
Did you know that Amazon has a video for this book?
Here are some of the activities for The Snowy Day. First, we did some visualizing!
You can see the retell strip tucked behind this journal (where he worked on connections).
Ezra Jack Keats Snowy Day Lesson Ideas: Reading craft idea
This is a cute craft that one of our friends sent in. I love how she turned the craft into a reading response journal for The Snowy Day! You can find the craft instructions in our unit.
Such a great way to add purpose to a craft!
I also love Winter Eyes! It is a book with poems about Winter!
Snow is Falling is also a great informational text. You can find our Guiding Readers lesson plans for this book HERE.
Here is a collection of great snow books for you!
Science Video
And this Youtube channel is simply amazing!
We also worked on making a snowball catapult! You can find the directions and response pages for this activity by clicking HERE.
Ezra Jack Keats Snowy Day Lesson Ideas: Center activities
Here are a few worksheets that go along with the unit. You can find them by clicking HERE.
Here are some math and literacy centers for a snowy week. Simply click on the picture to find the source.
Fun stuff
How about some snow slime from THIS blog?
You can find the recipe for play snow on THIS blog.
Read more about winter sugar painting on THIS blog.
I hope you have a fantastic week!
Other Ezra Jack Keats Lesson Ideas
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