Snowmen at night craft

Happy full moon Monday!! Did y’all realize that there’s a full moon today and we’re ending the week on Friday the 13th?! Should I just go ...

Watch as your little wordsmiths transform snow into stories, using their imaginations to craft tales about their snowman adventures. This hands-on writing activity not only sharpens language skills but also sparks joy in the learning process.

When someone asks how lesson planning has changed over my year of teaching, the answer is easy - The Internet! I have shelves full of lesson ideas, art projects, and class activities but they are really just collecting dust now. When I need an idea, I just Google what I am looking for and many possibilities and on my computer in seconds. Pinterest is one site I really like because it is visual, just pictures of the ideas and you can get more details if you want by clicking on the picture…

Snowmen at Night is one of my students' favorite winter books. They love the snowmen drawings and the math and literacy lesson plans for Snowmen at Night!

Snowman writing prompts are an easy way to extend early writing beyond just the book! How EASY to create. The craft modeled after this blog post combined wi ...

Have you read the book Snowmen at Night to your class? Snowmen at Night is a great book to use when teaching about predictions. I read this book to my class every January, after winter break. Introducing Snowmen at Night: First I show students the cover of the book and read the title. Then students make predictions about what they think snowmen do at night. Then I capture their predictions on chart paper. Checking our Predictions: After we read Snowmen at Night, we fill in the prediction…

A fun snowman art activity to accompany the popular children's book Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner; for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.

In First Grade, we read the book Snowmen at Night and Snowmen at Work. We used our imagination and talked about what our snowmen might be doing at night when we are sleeping and students created their own version using chalk pastel and oil pastel. We also talked about value and shadow. With the moon shining on one side, we noticed a shadow on the other side. We used cool colors to draw a shadow with the chalk pastel. After, we added some "snowflakes" using glitter paper and glue.

Grab this free Snow Friends Banner for your classroom. All you need is some bright Astrobright's paper to make it pop for the New Year!