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 When
the seasons change, so should your activities for your students.
Seasonal activities for elementary students are an excellent way
to celebrate the seasons and a fun way to change around your schooltime
schedule. Here are some great seasonal activities for elementary
students.
Wintertime seasonal activities for elementary students:
Seasonal activities for elementary students do not have to revolve
solely around the changing holidays. Although, there are many great
holidays in winter that you can create projects for – Christmas,
Hanukah, Martin Luther King Day, Valentine’s Day, President’s
Day… You should, by all means come up with some great activities
for elementary students that incorporate these holidays, but you
should also have plain old wintertime seasonal activities for elementary
students.
You can have students cut out basic snowflakes and then cover them
with glitter and hang them from your ceiling. You could teach your
students how to knit a scarf – and then you could give the
scarves to a charity. You can build snowmen out of marshmallows,
have “snowball” fights with cotton balls, and so much
more!
These seasonal activities can extend beyond arts and crafts. For
instance, you can go out and get some snow and ice and put salt
on it and compare it to snow and ice without salt – you can
talk about how salt changes the temperature at which ice melts.
You can teach students what birds and other animals do when winter
comes. You can even go out and try to find animal prints in fresh
snow. You can have students write poems about what snow feels like
(and they can not use the word cold) or stories about their first
experiences with snow. Be creative. There are lots of wintertime
seasonal activities for elementary students out there.
Springtime seasonal activities for elementary students:
Springtime seasonal activities for elementary students should focus
on the return of life. You can teach your students how to make paper
flowers. You can plant bean seeds or grass seeds, etc. and watch
them grow. You can show your students videos of birds making nests
or take a field trip to a student’s house with a bird’s
nest. You can keep an egg in an incubator and wait for it to hatch.
Teach your students about what happens to the snow as it melts
and also how to conserve water. Tell your students about recycling
and not wasting as much paper.
Summertime seasonal activities for elementary students:
Most students are not in school over the summer, but that does
not mean that you cannot have some fun summertime seasonal activities
for elementary students. As it gets really hot outside, you can
take your students out and have a water gun fight, then you can
connect it to propulsion (of the water through the gun) or evaporation.
Any chance you get, you should play outside. You can take your
kids on an “ugh” hike – students are in pairs,
and whenever one of the students sees a piece of trash and says
“ugh,” the partner has to pick it up. Teach your kids
not to litter. Be as creative as you want to be. Make flower presses
so that your students can go out and find some great leaves and
flowers and dry them, and then use them for stationary or bookmarks,
etc. Have your students capture insects, put them in the freezer
until they are dead, and then pin them down to cardboard –
teach your students about insects.
Autumnal seasonal activities for elementary students:
There are plenty of fun Halloween and Thanksgiving activities for
elementary students, but there are also lots of fun Autumn ones.
You can have students go out and find their favorite autumn leaves
of all different colors and Mod Podge them to cardboard or a picture
frame. You can also cut Fall leaves out of paper, have your students
write an autumn poem on them, and then tie them all to a string
to hang around your classroom.
You can talk about deciduous and coniferous trees. You can talk
about what happens when the leaves fall and turn into soil and when
animals die and turn into soil, etc. There are a plethora of possible
autumnal seasonal activities for elementary students (as well as
many winter, spring, and summer activities, as well… many
more than can be listed. Just be creative. Even ask your students
for ideas). – by Sammi Ross
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