Teacher friends, if you’re like me you probably get just as excited about a possible snow day as your students do. There’s nothing like a day off in the middle of winter! This week we are spotlighting the perfect book to share with your students before or after a big snow storm. It has a cute surprise ending where students learn that the person who is excited for the day off is actually a teacher! This title is the perfect way to engage students as they look forward to or come back from a day off this winter. - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
SUMMARY
A father and his two kids hear the weatherman say it’s going to snow. The family gets excited about the possibility of a snow day and begin planning. They can’t wait to build a snow fort, drink hot chocolate, and go sledding. Everyone heads off to bed in anticipation of the big snow storm and a day at home.
However, when they wake up they are surprised to see no snow outside and children walking down the street with their backpacks on! It didn’t snow after all and now they are going to be late for school. The family rushes to get ready and into the car. The dad mentions that he cannot be late for school and surprises readers by saying he is the teacher!
Students will love this book about a snow day and learn that teachers like them too!
USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
At first glance, Snow Day might seem like a relatively simple book you would read to students for enjoyment. However, there are actually so many skills and lessons you can teach using this book! Here are just some of the different things you can teach.
- Use this book as an opportunity to expose your students to new words and teach vocabulary lessons.
- Practice making personal connections to the story; this is a great way to increase engagement when students’ minds might be elsewhere.
- Use summarizing skills and help students to retell a story using key details.
- Encourage students to get creative with their writing by continuing the story or changing the events in the story.
- Introduce opinion writing and teach students to form an opinion and back it up with reasoning.
- Discuss why authors use interjections.
- Review contractions, compound words and adjectives.
- Have a class discussion on the importance of responsibility.
NO-PREP PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES:
If you are looking for “ready to go” activities for the first day of school, be sure to check out the book companion. With it you’ll receive all of the following resources to align with this specific book:
- comprehension questions
- 30 writing prompts with themed paper
- vocabulary activities
- word study print & go activities
- ideas for grammar lessons with focus sentence printables
- social emotional learning discussion topics
- graphic organizers to target specific comprehension skills and strategies
Our book companion for the book Snow Day has everything you need to teach meaningful lessons with your class. All you’ll need to do is select the student pages you want to use and print!
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ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
You and your students will also love these similar books:
- Snow Globe Family by Jane O'Connor
- The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett
- Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner
- Three Hens and a Peacock by Lester Laminack
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