Winter Poem of the Week Kindergarten Arctic Animals, Snowman, Penguins January

Description

Introducing Winter Poem of the Week for January Snowman, Penguins, Winter Animals, & More Poetry Fun. Enhance your classroom with winter poems and engaging poetry activities! This January poem of the week resource features winter poetry perfect for kindergarten and first-grade students. With themes like snowmen, penguins, and winter animals, these poems provide fun and interactive ways to build fluency, rhyming skills, and vocabulary.

Rhyming, rhythm, and song are all a part of these kid friendly poems.

JANUARY FEATURES THESE WINTER POEMS:

• Arctic Animals This poem is about animals that live in the arctic. This is a great poem to us with your animal adaptation unit.
• Mittens poem This is a fun winter poem that includes colors!
• Penguin poem Your kids will love this penguin poem and it is fun to act out too!
• Snowman poem This fun poem includes the steps on how to build a snowman!

PHONICS, PRINTABLES, AND WORD WORK ACTIVITIES:

• beginning sounds/ending sounds: f
• beginning sounds/ending sounds: p
• word families: ish, ing, ink
• rhyming words
• short vowel word sort: u or o
• long vowel word sort: o or i
• sentence building
• syllable word sort

WHAT DO YOU GET WITH THIS RESOURCE?

• Fluency Lesson Plan This poetry resource provides you with a 5-day fluency lesson plan for the poem. This takes the stress out of planning and gives you a clear roadmap on how to use these poems in your classroom.
• Colored poem to print or share on a document camera
• Pocket chart format – Cut apart sentence strips to be used in a pocket chart to share during your whole group
• Emergent reader for the poem
• Black ink only student copy of the poem to be added to a poetry notebook that students can take home to share with their families
• “I Can” statement chart to be placed at a poetry station for independent center work
• Two printable hands-on center activities to practice beginning sounds and rhyming words.
• Digital Poem and Poetry Activities The poem and center activities are available as a 1 click Seesaw link and Google Slides-friendly PowerPoint.

WHY POETRY AND SONG?

Brain research shows that multiple areas in the brain are activated when students see print, hear music, and move. This leads to more engaged learning and JOY!!! We want students to love shared reading, so adding songs means we say good bye to boring! WOOT!

Once the weekly poem has been used, add the poem to your poetry center. Your kindergarten and first-grade students will love visiting them again and again!

WHY YOU WILL LOVE THESE POETRY ACTIVITIES

• Weekly Poetry Fun: Introduce a new themed poem each week to keep students excited and engaged.
• Easy-to-Use Formats: Includes student copies, emergent readers, and “I Can” charts for independent learning.
• Fluency Focus: Supports shared reading, rhyming practice, and sight word recognition.

✅ YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY PURCHASING THE BUNDLE

• Poetry for Kindergarten 1st Grade Poem of the Week w Books, Activities, Centers

♫ Music and Video Files

I am thrilled to tell you that we have recorded MP3 and MP4 music files to go along with these poems. These music files are wonderful for your students to sing-a-long with. They are available with this additional purchase:

• Poetry for Kindergarten and 1st Grade Themed Poems with Music and Videos Set 1

✎Interactive Notebooks

If your class uses interactive notebooks, this interactive journal resource is also available:

• Poetry Interactive Notebook w ELA Skills Practice Aligned to Poem of the Week

Read how I implement this poetry resource as part of a 5-day fluency plan AND grab a free sample:

5 Day Fluency Plan with FREE Sample

LISTEN TO WHAT OTHER TEACHERS ARE SAYING:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nicole says, “I love how this resource covers so many phonemic awareness and phonics skills with the use of engaging poems. My students enjoy reading the poem every week and they can definitely build on those foundational skills with the included activities. ”

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Slager’s Time Savers says, “I’m loving these poems, and they’ve went with our weekly themes. We insert the poem into our poetry books and highlight letters/words. They’ve also done better with the cut & paste sheets than I anticipated.”

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ How I Met Your Teacher says, ” I always loved these poetry sets. They have made my teacher life much easier!”

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ashley G. says, “When I taught second grade shared reading was my favorite time of day. Since moving to kindergarten I have struggled with shared reading. I love this resource–it keeps students engaged and active during shared reading.