10 Winter Action Songs, Poems and Fingerplays

10 winter action songs, poems and fingerplays you can use with young children. Incorporate movement, music and literacy in all of your learning activities for whole child development. Children love to sing and move to these easy to learn action songs, poems and fingerplays set to familiar tunes. Read this post to learn the songs and actions.

WINTER ACTION SONGS, POEMS AND FINGERPLAYS

Wintertime can be a great learning time using winter action songs and poems. Students understand and “get” cold, snowy, freezing, snow, snowman and other winter concepts as they experience winter weather. You can make learning fun by incorporating action songs into your classroom activities.

Winter is also a great time to work on rhyming words.  Each of these action songs have rhyming words at the end of the sentence. You can say the last words and have your children repeat the rhyming sound.  Later ask them to point out the rhymes in the lyrics.

I highly recommend watching the full video to get all of the actions and teaching directions.

WINTER ACTION SONGS, POEMS AND FINGERPLAYS LINK

SONG VIDEO TIMING

00:34    WHY ACTION SONGS ARE IMPORTANT

01:39   HOW TO TEACH THE ACTIONS

03:34   WHERE TO GET THE MATERIALS

03:56   CELEBRATE THE BRAND NEW YEAR

 04:46   WHERE’S THE SNOWMAN?

05:29   FIVE LITTLE SNOWFLAKES

06:22   JANUARY SONG OF THE MONTH

07:29   SOFT, WHITE, SNOW

08:20   THE SNOW IS ON MY HEAD

08:48   I’M A LITTLE SNOWMAN

10:29   BUILD A SNOWMAN

11:32   SNOWMAN, SNOWMAN

12:13   SNOWFLAKE, SNOWFLAKE

WINTER SONGS AND POEMS RESOURCE

Winter and January Songs, Poems, Readers Theater with Literacy Activities K-3

January and Winter Literacy Activities “Snow” good for your students! Interactive means kids are learning!

Winter themed Songs, Poems, Reader’s Theater with writing activities provides creative, applicable and adaptable Literacy Activities for K through 3rd grade.

This resource supports ELA and COMMON CORE Daily 5 for practice in fluency, vocabulary and comprehension skills reinforcement.

Resource Includes:

• 20 Original Songs, Poems & Finger plays in Color and Black and White
• Songs are sung to Familiar tunes! (Frere Jacques, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Here We Go ‘Round, I’m a Little Teapot, Three Blind Mice, Twinkle, Rain-Rain Go Away, The Farmer in the Dell, Baa Baa Black Sheep,) along with original poems.
• Themes: Winter, Snow, New Year, Hygiene, January, Snowflake, Snowman
• Readers Theater Scripts in 2 versions PK-1 and Grades 2-3 (numbered & without numbers for easy grouping)
• List of CC Standards Strands

Perfect for your Home school winter literacy lessons. Your children can sing the songs, read the play and make the puppets to present an adorable play for your family and friends.

“SNOWFLAKE, SNOWFLAKE” WINTER ACTION SONG

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WINTER ACTION SONG OF THE MONTH “January”

Winter action songs and rhymes can help students learn to spell and sound out rhymes. The song “January” is perfect for this type of literacy activity.

Kindergarten, First Grade and Preschool teachers can use this January song of the month for their poetry and writing activities.

Kids will love singing and moving in this Kindergarten action song. And, you’ll be able to talk about winter weather, cold, hot, snow, snowy, weather words.

You’ll find materials to use like key words for pocket charts, coloring and writing activities in the “January” Song of the Month Resource.

LYRICS:

January (January)

Brand New Year (Brand New Year)

Cold and Snowy Weather (Cold and Snowy Weather)

Wintertime(Wintertime)

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I’m hoping these 10 winter action songs, poems and fingerplays enliven your learning activities.

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