Winter Olympics Activities
Spark your students interest in academic learning by offering thematic Winter Olympic content into your cross-curricular curriculum. Connecting learning to this real-world event will have your students begging to practice academic skills!
Our Olympic Winter Sports Activities Bundle is an excellent way to bring the excitement of these sports into your classroom, homeschool, or intervention room. These activities are designed to engage students while strategically practicing important academic skills, turning students into gold medal learners! The activities will integrate the excitement of winter sports with educational activities that align with academic Core Standards.
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Description
Reading Skills Games Phonics Science of Reading
Winter has some of the most exciting sports to watch and/or play. Bring the fun into your classroom, homeschool, or intervention room! Strategically practicing important reading skills will make your students or child gold metal readers.
Our series Teach Me features Strategic Reading Skill games which are created using research on reading instruction that really works.
This packet focuses on the following crucial phonics skills.
Bobsled Race: Reading Multi-Syllabic CVCCVC Words
At the Olympics: Reading Phrases With Fluency
Hockey Shot: Reading R-Controlled Words
The Luge: Reading Sentences Fluently
Skating Pairs: Reading Vowel Pair Words
Skiing Champs: Reading Words with Inflectional Endings.
© Kathy Crane
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Winter Sports Thematic Unit! Are you and your classroom or homeschool students fans of Winter Sports? This Thematic Unit is packed with fun, engaging activities that are strategically linked to academic Core Standards. Let the Winter Sports begin!
Contents Include:
Literacy Games
Bobsled Raceway: Reading Sight Word Sentences (or Alphabet Letters)
At the Sports Event: Naming Sounds or Reading Nonsense Words
Hockey Shot: Segmenting Words into Phonemes
Winter Sports: Writing Sight Words (or Alphabet Letters)
Literacy Worksheets
Winter Sports: Reading and Matching Color Words
Winter Sports Medal Match: Distinguishing Between Two Similar Words
Math Games
Ski Jump Addition: Adding Two Numbers
Medal Count: Graphing Medals
Winter Sports: Decomposing Numbers
Going For the Gold: Teen Numbers
Math Worksheets
Roll To Color: Creating Sums
Half Pipe Hype: Comparing Two Written Numerals
Writing
Winter Sports Word Wall
Writing Prompts: Winter Sports
Label the Sports
My List of Winter Sports
Guided Reading Book
Winter Sports (Level B and Level D versions)
Art Activities
Winter Sports Windsock
Winter Sports Medal
Winter Sports Torch
Gym or PE Activity
Winter Sports Challenge
Winter Indépendant Writing Center Activities
Winter Sport Reading Intervention Games
Winter Guided Sight Word Readers Set 1
The Winter Sports Games are exciting and fun especially if you make a personal connection with the meaning of the events. This research project will allow students to learn more about Olympic events. Linking this research to literature will deepen the connection. Tacky the Penguin is a favorite book character that adds greatly to the study of the Winter Games.
Workbook Cover
The Winter Olympics Information page
Writing activity Tacky and the Winter Games
Labeling Olympic Events
Olympic Events Vocabulary and Information Cards
Olympic Event Writing Information Learned
Writing What I have Learned
You will want to bring more Winter Sports learning into your classroom with these companion products.
Phonics Olympic Activity
Do you want to make sure your students are on track with their reading in first grade? Track phonics progress in a fun way while linking reading to social studies and the study of the Winter Sports competition.
Keep on track with the Science of Reading
Students will compete in 15 sporting areas:
Curling: Reading CVC Words
Ski Jump: Reading Words with Blends
Alpine Skiing: Reading Consonant Digraph Words
Snow Board Giant Slalom: Reading R-Controlled Words
Biathlon: Reading CCVC and CVCC Words
Ice Hockey: Reading Words with Inflectional Endings
Skeleton: Reading Vowel Digraph Words
Luge: Reading Soft C and Soft G Words
Cross-Country Skiing: Reading Long A Words
Downhill Skiing: Reading Long E Words
Speed Skating: Reading Long I Words
Snow Board Halfpipe: Reading Long U Words
Figure Skating: Reading Long O Words
Ice Dancing: Reading Vowel Team Words
Bob Sledding: DORF Reading 50 WPM
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Writing Center Resources for Winter
Are you looking for engaging writing activities that can be set up in your permanent writing, phonics, word work, literacy center, writing work station, or literacy centers by any name? You will be so excited about this time-saving easy to differentiate resource!
Simply set up your space, and change monthly or thematically to meet your needs. Click on the preview above to see the anchor cards included and idea for classroom set up. Find out more about setting up a writing center here.Contents Include:
Can Have Are Labels & Worksheets
Write a Story Task Card
Write a Story Worksheets
Label-It Task Card
Label-It Student Worksheets
Make a List Task Card
Make a List Student Worksheet
Make a List Word Wall
Write The Room Task Card- Sight Words
Write the Room Word Cards
Write the Room Task Card- Alphabet
Write the Room Word Cards
Write the Room Worksheets
Backwards Words Task Card
Backwards Words Worksheets
Backwards Word Word Cards
QR Words/Letters Task Card
QR Words/Letters Worksheets
QR Sight Words
QR Alphabet Letters
Writing CVC Words
© Kathy Crane Kindergarten Kiosk
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