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My Snowy Day

A snowy day provides lots of opportunities for fun. Students will create winter scene collages after reading "The Snowy Day."

Lesson Plan

Supplies Needed

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  • Paper

Steps

  • Step 1

    Read the Caldecott Medal-winning book "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats to the class. Have students discuss fun activities they enjoy on a winter day. Do they feel the wonder that Peter (the boy in the book) feels as he steps outside and into the snow? If your area doesn't get snow, ask students to consider how Peter must have felt as he experienced the first snow of the season. Can they imagine the sound of snow crunching beneath his feet?

  • Step 2

    Have students create a winter collage. They can first create a background by cutting or tearing white paper to represent the snow-covered ground and gluing it onto blue construction paper. They can illustrate the scene with winter images, perhaps a sled, a family playing in the snow, or anything else. Adding streaks of glitter glue will create a sparkly, snowy feel.

  • Step 3

    You might have students create snowflake cut-outs to add to their collages. To do this they will fold a piece of white paper and cut or tear pieces from the folded edges. When the snowflake is complete, they can glue it onto their background scene.

  • Step 4

    Have students write or tell a story describing an imaginary adventure on a winter day. When the art and stories are complete, have them present them to the class and discuss some of their favorite winter activities.

Standards

LA: Write using words, numbers, and images to inform and explain, share experiences, and create narratives, either fictional or non-fictional.  

LA: Add drawings or other visual displays to written text to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings. 

Adaptations

Have the class collaborate to make snowflake mobiles. Ask students to create snowflakes, either by cutting or tearing them as they did in the lesson or drawing them on small pieces of white paper. Attach them to recycled cardboard rolls with various lengths of string or yarn, then display them in the classroom to create an indoor winter wonderland.

Have students explore the science behind snowflakes. How do they form? Why are they all six-pointed and symmetrical? Did they know that are no two snowflakes alike?