The Snow Globe Family

Wednesday, January 09, 2013 - 6 comments

Snow Globe Family book activities unit with literacy printables, reading companion activities, lesson ideas, and a craft for winter in Kindergarten and First Grade

THE SNOW GLOBE FAMILY

The Snow Globe Family by Jane O'Connor is a great winter read aloud that your Kindergarten and First Grade students are sure to love! It's fun to imagine life inside a snow globe! This book and these corresponding reading activities are sure to engage your students as they develop their literacy and comprehension skills in a fun way.

THE SNOW GLOBE FAMILY BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

My Kindergarten class loved this story about the family who lived in the big house and the tiny family who lived in the snow globe! They loved to see how the actions of the big family affected the lives of the tiny family :)

This unit for The Snow Globe Family is packed with literacy activities that will help your students work on story elements, character traits, story retell, writing activities, problem & solution, making text to self connections, making mental images, offering opinions, recognizing cause & effect, reading comprehension, and more.

This book study unit can be used as a whole class activity, during small group guided reading time, as individual student work, or as part of a book club. Copy a pack for each student and you're ready to go!

This book companion unit will save you tons of time, is no prep, and is great to leave for a sub!

This guided reading unit includes lots of activities, so you can differentiate to suit your students' learning abilities and needs.

THE SNOW GLOBE FAMILY CLASS BOOK

The pack includes a class book, too! It is great to add this to your classroom library, and will soon be a student favorite!

THE SNOW GLOBE FAMILY CRAFT

These snow globe crafts make a fun winter bulletin board display! Students complete the craftivity by writing what they would do if they lived inside of a snow globe.

*note that these samples are from 2013, and the activity pack has a more updated looking craft :)

If I lived in a snow globe...I would catch some snowflakes.

If I lived in a snow globe...I would jump in the snow with my friends.

If I lived in a snow globe...I would make a snowman.

WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING

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6 comments

JenniferJanuary 09, 2013 8:36 pm
I'm not familiar with that book. Heading to Amazon next! Super cute activity!
Rowdy in First Grade
Primary ParadiseJanuary 09, 2013 8:47 pm
I love this book. Thank you for the activities. I can't wait to use it.
Tammy
Primaryparadise.blogspot
UnknownJanuary 09, 2013 10:09 pm
Love this activity! Thank you so much! (Now I need this book!)
Cheryl
Crayons and Curls
UnknownJanuary 10, 2013 9:04 pm
I read your post last night and went to the library today to check out this book! What a super cute idea! And then I checked my blog tonight and you had posted this cute freebie on my January freebie linkup!!! YEAH!!! Thanks so much! I love your ideas!
Hugs,

Rebecca
Teaching First
The Brown-Bag TeacherJanuary 11, 2013 5:00 pm
Oh my goodness! This is my first time seeing your blog and it is wonderful - so cute! Thank you so much for sharing the Snow Globe freebie :)

Catherine
The Brown Bag Teacher
ChrissyJanuary 16, 2013 10:25 pm
My kindergartners did this activity today and they loved it! I stopped reading at the halfway point; we took a break for snack and began the response page for beginning, middle, end. They couldn't wait to get back to the rug, to finish the book!

Bless their hearts, they wanted to know if the cat knocks over the globe in the sequel. I was delighted to tell them that, although the author didn't write a sequel, she did go on to create Fancy Nancy! Big eyes and Ahhhs! all around :-)
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