Montessori Style Activities for January
This set of 10 winter-themed activities is designed to support important developmental skills in a Montessori, preschool, or early elementary classroom. The materials are easy to prepare, making it simple to rotate them in and out of your classroom shelves as the seasons change. These activities offer engaging, hands-on learning opportunities for young children.
What’s Included:
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Winter Question Game
Skill: Oral language development and inferencing
Children identify winter-related objects by answering fun questions. Great for group discussions and vocabulary building.
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Winter Close-ups
Skill: Visual matching
Match detailed close-up images to their full-size counterparts. A wonderful challenge for visual discrimination. -
Winter Go-Togethers
Skill: Categorization and classification
Children match items that go together, like hats and mittens, encouraging logical thinking and association. -
Winter Rhyming Riddles
Skill: Rhyming
Solve fun riddles by finding the rhyming word. Boosts phonological awareness and introduces word families. -
0-10 Snowman Number Cards
Skill: Counting to 10
Hands-on number cards featuring snowmen, ideal for counting activities and practicing early numeracy skills. -
Letter-Sound Sorting
Skill: Beginning sound identification
Sort picture cards by their initial letter sound. Use with movable letters or printable letter cards. -
Phonetic Reading CVC 3-Part Cards
Skill: CVC reading
Children practice reading three-letter phonetic words and match them to pictures, strengthening decoding skills. -
Phonetic Reading Sentences
Skill: Reading sentences and blends
Simple, decodable sentences designed to build confidence in early readers. Includes words with blends and sight words. -
Winter Living or Non-Living?
Skill: Sorting living vs. non-living things
Explore the characteristics of living and non-living things with this hands-on sorting activity. -
Winter Plant or Animal?
Skill: Classifying plants and animals
Children sort picture cards to classify objects as plants or animals, helping to build knowledge of the natural world.
This set is ideal for:
A Montessori Class
A Preschool, Kindergarten or First Grade Class
Speech Therapists
Special Ed Teachers
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