Winter warning for fun! Discover winter wonders with our How to Catch a Snowman activities, and sprinkle a flurry of fun into literacy and math lessons! These delightful activities transform How to Catch a Snowman into an interactive read-aloud adventure. Embrace the season’s magic and watch as your students’ skills snowball with these enchanting winter activities!

Our How to Catch a Snowman activities are a winter wonderland for nurturing young readers and writers. Young readers illustrate story elements, sequence the story, and articulate their thoughts about the beginning, middle, and end of the book. They’ll also stack snowballs of critical thinking activities like identifying cause and effect.

It doesn’t stop there! Transform numerical concepts into playful, snowy landscapes. Young mathematicians count to 10 while building a snowman. For more advanced mathematicians, they’ll add and subtract within 10, 20, and 100. Bring real-world math into the read-aloud fun with money activities, word problems, percentages, and more! 

As a result of the included activities, students will be able to:

• Illustrate story elements.
• Determine cause and effect events.
• Sequence the story.
• Match rhyming pairs. 
• Answer reading comprehension questions.
• Apply Writing Skills with the including writing templates and prompts.
• Practice Reading Comprehension with the included discussion questions for beginning, middle, and end of the book.
• Engage in Social Skills through the included whole group prompts and activities.
• Develop Fine Motor Skills with the included coloring, tracing, cutting, and gluing activities.
• Count within 10.
• Add within 10, 20, and 100.
• Subtract within 20.
• Identify and add coins.
• Answer word problems.
• Solve single step multiplication word problems.
• Solve for percentages.
• Generate reading rhymes.
• Participate in a Snowman Shark Tank.
• Use digital tools to build a snowman.

This whimsical winter journey engages young readers, writers, and mathematicians while seamlessly blending creative play. Tailored for whole groups, centers, or personal choice, these activities provide a delightful flurry of learning options, perfect for every snow explorer.

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About the Book

Our heroes' entry for the snowman contest has magically come to life--and ran away! Can YOU help catch it? Travel through a winter wonderland and run, skate, and bounce through trap after trap to catch the snowman and win the prize. Will the snowman teach our heroes a lesson they'll never forget? Who snows! 

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