I love the holidays. I love snow. I love hot cocoa and snow days and icicles....I LOVE winter and everything about it. So I wanted to share a bulletin board I just put up for the month of December.
This is a great lesson that can be adjusted based on the level of the students. I do this with all my 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders and I'm able to differentiate it enough to fit all of them. So here's how it came out:
Unfortunately the picture doesn't really do it justice so I've thrown in some close ups too. The individual snowflakes turn out super cute! The base lesson I use with all of my students is about nouns, proper nouns, adjectives and verbs.
For my third graders, I strictly stick to nouns and adjectives. We start by brainstorming winter words that are nouns. Then they pick their favorite winter noun off our brainstorm and they think of four adjectives to describe that noun. I have them cut out a snowflake and write their winter noun in the center. Then they write all the adjectives they came up with on the arms of the snowflake. We throw some glitter on it and there you have it! A beautiful, nouny and descriptive snowflake!
I make it a little different for my fourth graders by making them identify whether the words are verbs, nouns or proper nouns as we brainstorm. They also have to think of more words to describe the noun they choose for their snowflake.
My fifth graders do the entire brainstorm and then choose two winter words to work with. Those become main topics for them in a writing piece about winter. They write about why they like those things and what they can do with them. It's a pretty great lesson overall because we're talking about parts of the English language, the seasons and doing some writing. All things that my students need constant reminders for! And you get a pretty bulletin board out of it. Love it!
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