Preschoolers really enjoy winter activities! I’ve pulled together some great resources from around the web to help you create a winter theme for your classroom. Montessori Activities for Winter In Montessori we aim to give children experiences with real life as much as possible. Preschoolers will enjoy practical life activities such as: Shoveling snow Scraping ice […]
January
Free Printable: Get Ready for January
The January Seasonal Guide is ready! You can also see pictures of many of these activities in the following posts from previous years: Fine Motor Activities for January What’s New on the Art Shelves in January? More Winter Activities Animals in Winter Animals in Winter Unit January Printables More Winter Printables The Mitten Related Products In the Trillium Montessori […]
Winter Olympics
Are you excited about the Winter Olympics coming up this year? We’ve got a few activities planned to keep up with all the fun! Stamping the Olympic rings with paper tubes and paint Cut (or pin-punch) a torch and glue some colored tissue to make a flame String beads to make the Olympic rings. Figuring […]
Animals in Winter Unit
Here are some of the materials I put together to add to our Animals in Winter unit. This is a non-fiction book we will be using to introduce the unit. I might keep the cards apart and put them up on display one at a time as we talk about what it says. (Source: Animals […]
The Mitten
“The Mitten” by Jan Brett is such a great book to read with the children in winter. I made up some phonological awareness games for our pre-literacy shelf to go with the book. Skill: Isolating Words You will need a basket of blocks to play this game. The teacher reads a sentence card and […]
Montessori and Preschool Printables for Winter
There are so many simple ways to bring a winter theme into the classroom. Last week we shared pictures of some of the new materials we have out in January. Here are a few more! Winter Clothing color sort. I decided to print out the black-line set on colored construction paper this time to save […]
January Printables
It’s a new year and a new month and time to put out some new materials! Here are some of the Wintery works we have on the shelves for January. On the Pre-Literacy Shelf We love the Question Game for vocabulary development and improving inferencing skills. These questions are little more advanced than the ones […]
January in Action
Here are the latest videos from our class! If you’ve been following our blog for the past month, check out these videos to see all of our winter activities in use! Parents, check your emails for our January Newsletter. See our earlier videos on Vimeo and YouTube Linked to these great early education blogs […]
Animals in Winter
This is our Unit Studies shelf with activities to help children explore what animals do in winter Making animal tracks in playdoh. A little glitter in the white playdoh can make the work even more attractive. I used the animals from our North America box for this activity. Matching Animals to their tracks […]
Free Preschool Printables for Winter
This is our pre-literacy shelf in January. It includes most of the following activities. I Have, Who Has.. Winter Words. This is a fun vocabulary development activity you can do with one child or a group of kids. In our class, the children love to do it with a few buddies. I found these here. […]