The Snowy Day
The Snowy Day
By Ezra Jack Keats, The Viking Press, 1962
Concepts and Themes To Teach
- Concepts: frozen, snow, ice, melted, bumpy, smooth, liquid, hard, wet
- Deep
- Snowsuit
- Making footprints and tracks
- Making snowman and snow angels
Expanded Core Curriculum Skills and Activities
Compensatory Skills
- Discuss how snow feels, reinforce the concept words. If no snow available, use instant snow.
- Ask the child what they think happened to the snowball in Peter’s pocket.
Leave a popsicle out to see what happens. Place it in the sunlight or by a heat vent if possible.
- Use stamps and wheels for arts ‘n craft activities. If possible, use a foot or shoe stamp. Dip into paint and move the stamp across the page. Discuss how they are like tracks, leaving an impression where they have been.
Orientation and Mobility
- Discuss footprints. Look at footprints in the snow. Or make artificial prints by tracing feet on construction paper and then cutting several pairs. Have the students follow the footprints to a location.
- Identify the parts of the human foot: toe, toe nails, heel, ball, arch.
- Discuss and show animal footprints. Discuss how they are different.
- If possible, after a snowfall, explore how some of the area sidewalks could be not shoved. Also explore the large piles of snow and talk about how they got there
Independent Living Skills
- Make snow cookies: decorate sugar cookies with white icing
Recreation & Leisure
- Have a pretend snowball fight with soft balls, such as Nerf or Koosh
- Go outside and make a snowman, make snow angels
Assistive Technology
- Explore “Snowy Day”, simple activity book from Intellipics: http://aex.intellitools.com
Visual Efficiency Skills
- Make pictures or photocopies of the events in the book. Have the child sequence the events, using the book to check and match.. Simple picture cards are available from “Webbing Into Literacy”.
- For a sequencing activity, provide picture cards of snowmen being built. Have the students sequence!
