Ten Winter Activities with ReadWriteThink Interactives

The last days of 2011 are counting down, and it’s likely that your days in the classroom for 2011 are even fewer! As you’re planning for the last days of the calendar year, consider using ReadWriteThink interactives for one of these fun, winter activities:

1. Choose an animal you think about during the winter (like penguins, polar bears, or snowshoe rabbit), and explore its habits and life cycle with the Animal Inquiry interactive.
2. Use the Resume Generator to create a resume for a character from a favorite story or song. What would Scrooge list on his resume?
3. Compose Shape Poems with the bus for the last day of school. Students can talk about all the things they hope to do during the winter break—after they ride home on the school bus for the last time in 2011.
4. Have students map significant personal events they remember from previous winter holidays with the Graphic Map.
5. Write a class alphabet book of activities to try during the winter holidays with the Alphabet Organizer.
6. Ask students to think of a favorite event that happens during the winter break, and compose Acrostic Poems about it.
7. Create Character Trading Cards for characters from winter-themed or holiday-themed books or songs. Imagine a trading card for the Baby New Year!
8. Reflect on all that has happened since the start of the school year in a class newspaper, created with the ReadWriteThink Printing Press.
9. Explore school days and winter vacation in a Diamante Poem that unites the two opposing topics.
10. Use the Profile Publisher to mock up social networking profiles, yearbook profiles, or newspaper or magazine profiles for characters from winter-themed or holiday-themed books or songs. What would Frosty the Snowman list on his Facebook profile?

This list also posted in the Reading & Language Arts Group in the Thinkfinity Community.