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Winter brings cold air, rain, wind, and snow, and warm winter clothing comes out of storage. Winter clothing words are the focus of a literacy activity designed to be used with the rebus-style picture book The Jacket I Wear in the Snow.

Lois Ehlert's beautiful picture book Snowballs provides the context for a flurry of activities, games, crafts and rhymes focusing on all things snow. Snowballs, snow people, and snowflakes take center stage.

The stockings are hung by the chimney with care...and they're all different textures! Children will love feeling the different materials used to decorate each stocking in this festive booklet. The pages open up accordion style to reveal a row of stockings hanging from the mantelpiece. These booklets can be assembled for children to read and enjoy or children can make their own. 

The classic children’s story The Mitten provides the centerpiece for this collection of preschool and kindergarten activities, games, and crafts. Children work with new vocabulary, sight words, and sentence construction concepts via the literacy activity.

The books The Mitten, Snowballs, and The Jacket I Wear in the Snow set the scene for this month’s Winter Wonderland theme. The accompanying literacy activities celebrate the season while developing print concept, vocabulary, and word recognition skills.