2nd Grade Winter Activities Bundle
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Looking to have your lesson for the winter months planned and ready to go? Then this 2nd grade winter activities bundle is for you! This 2nd grade winter bundle includes 5 of my most popular winter resources, making it a breeze for you to plan your reading, writing, math, and station time!
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This resource is a bundle and includes the following resources:
- Snowflake Bentley Beyond the Text Activities
- Do You Wanna Build a Snowman Expository Writing Activity
- Snow Days Literacy Centers
- Beginning Research Projects: Arctic Animals
- Winter Word Problems: Differentiated word problems
With this resource, you'll save time AND money by having everything you need in one place!
No need to dig around and pull activities from multiple places! This unit has it all!
Use the reading and writing activities from Snowflake Bentley to anchor your winter themed reading and writing lesson plans.
Then, use the Do You Wanna Build a Snowman writing to get your students excited about writing this season!
Add some fun to your center time with Snow Days Reading Centers!
Build key research skills with the Beginning Research Projects: Arctic Animals.
Help your students practice those much-needed word problem skills with the Winter-Themed Math Task Cards!
A Peek at the Resources:
1. Snowflake Bentley Activities-Beyond the Text
- Lesson Plans- A five day outline with suggestions of ideas for a close reading routine of the book and daily writing.
- Digital Student Activities- Want to use these activities as part of your distance learning classroom or digital classroom? This file now includes a digital student notebook making it super easy to share with students and have them complete each activity! (Also includes directions on how to use in your Google Classroom (TM) or Office 365 (TM)
- Snow Questions- After reading the book, use these question cards to check for abasic understanding of the text. Questions range from level 1-3 on Webb’s Depth of Knowledge scale.
- Snowflake Questions- Students work to answer “W” questions about the book Snowflake Bentley. Includes an empty questions sheet for students who are ready to ask and answer their own questions.
- Snowflake Main Idea-Students work to identify the main idea and details.
- Snowflake Character Traits- After reading the text, students choose words that describe Willie Bentley.
- Snowflake Possessives- Students learn more about possessive nouns. Includes a reference poster, an interactive game, and recording sheet.
- Using Beginning Glossaries- Help your students better understand how glossaries can be used to understand unknown words. Includes “How Snowflakes are Made” non-fiction text reader, glossary practice pages, and a vocabulary printable.
- Snowflake Writings- Four writing prompts based on the book and one general writing paper. Includes self-check rubrics.
- Snowflake Craft- cute snowflake buddy craft to decorate student’s writings. Also includes a digital version of this craft for students to complete!
- Snowflake Writing Lettering- Use it as a title for a bulletin board showcasing your kiddos’ writings.
2. Do You Wanna Build a Snowman Expository Writing Activity
- Snowman Resources- use these suggested books and videos to prime your students before beginning the writing process. Perfect for kiddos who *may* not have had a chance to build a snowman themselves.
- Snowman Lesson Plans- these easy to follow 5 day plans walks your students through the writing process from brainstorm to publishing! Use all or a few of the suggestions.
- Sequencing Cards- use these picture cards to help students think through the steps of building a snowman. Use for a whole group game, then as reference as students write.
- How to Build a Snowman Picture Steps- Display this poster as students work to describe the steps of building a snowman or print a mini version for students to refer too as they write.
- How to Build a Snowman Brainstorm- students work to brainstorm the steps of building a snowman and work to add transition words.
- Do You Wanna Build a Snowman- Use this rough draft sheet to scaffold student’s writings into paragraph form. (primary and regular lines included)
- Do You Wanna Build a Snowman Paper- publishing paper for student’s writings. (primary and regular lines included)
- Snowman Crafts- 2 options for snowman craft. One easy print and go, and one traditional craft. Samples included.
- Expository Writing Rubric- After students have completed their writings, use this self checking rubric to make sure their writings have everything an expository piece should include. Has a section for teacher notes as well so grading this writing is a breeze!
3. Snow Days Literacy Centers- Includes 11 differentiated center activities!
Skills Covered:
- Central topic and supporting details
- Sequencing
- Using adjectives and adverbs
- Shades of meaning for verbs and adjectives
- Expository writing
- Narrative writing
- Parts of Speech (Noun, verb, adjective)
- Prefixes (un and pre)
- Alphabetical Order
- Past and present tense verbs
- Multiple Meaning Words
4. Beginning Research Project: Arctic Animals
- Research Tips- Includes research teaching tips to help you guide your students through the research process as painlessly as possible.
- Research Suggestions- Includes links to books, videos, and website suggestions that are student-friendly and a good place to start having students find information on their chosen Arctic Animal.
- Arctic Animals Assignment- Perfect place to start your project! Includes an activity sheet that introduces students to the project. Black and white version included that can be sent home.
- Scaffolded Notes taking sheet- Helps beginning researchers zero in on information to write down.
- Mini-book Project rubric- Clearly outlines what students should include in their research mini-book. Includes an area for teachers to score and grade.
- Mini-book Labels- After conducting their research, students fill out the mini-book pages. Includes assembly directions.
- 12 Information Cards about the following Arctic Animals: Arctic Fox, Polar Bear, Ermine, Arctic Wolf, Beluga Whale, Arctic Hare, Harp
Seal, Snowshoe Hare, Narwhal, Puffin, Snowy Owl, Caribou.
5. Winter Word Problems: Differentiated Word Problems for 2nd and 3rd Grade
Skills covered in this pack:
- 2-digit addition with and without regrouping
- 3-digit addition with and without regrouping
- 2-digit subtraction with and without regrouping
- 3-digit subtraction with and without regrouping
- Multiplication
- Division
Each set of cards includes the following task levels:
- beginner
- proficient
- challenging
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