Winter Olympics Classroom Ideas, Crafts, As Well As Resources {Winter Games/Sports}

The Winter Olympics volition live starting soon...both inward Sochi as well as inward my classroom.

I am using a combination of "Countries" as well as "Winter Sports" equally the thematic focus to our reading as well as writing travel for the side past times side ii weeks.

Although I should banking concern complaint that this query project could live completed at whatever fourth dimension of the twelvemonth as well as does non demand to live associated amongst the Olympics. It would live perfect for whatever Social Studies or Diversity curriculum that focuses on the written report of other Countries or cultures.

After the kids left schoolhouse on Friday, I sadly packed upward all of our penguin books {that was a fun, exciting, as well as simply all to a greater extent than or less fabulous unit} as well as brought inward a giant stack of novel reading material.

While my kids do access the classroom library on a regular basis, I honor that they devour the "thematic books" that I stand upward up on the dorsum counter.

I gear upward these upward inward ii dissimilar sections. One includes a collection of texts nearly the Olympics as well as the other surface area includes a diversity of books nearly dissimilar countries. Because I am using the Olympics equally the springboard for our learning, I purposely selected 10 countries that volition live competing inward many of the events inward the Winter Games.

To maintain our materials organized, I sorted the books into baskets past times country.

And because I am a consummate organization-loving dork, I placed the baskets inward alphabetical order.

I'll add together labels tomorrow.

I programme to boot off the calendar week past times reading aloud some non-fiction texts nearly Russia (since that is where the Olympics are existence held) and working through the steps of the projection equally a whole class. This volition familiarize them amongst the expectations for the research, note-taking as well as the brochures that they volition live making to showcase their novel learning.

Afterwards we'll live having the students travel amongst partners or pocket-size grouping query teams to larn nearly other countries.

{Click to Access as well as Download: Country Research}

Next calendar week I volition add together some other display of non-fiction texts then the students may read nearly the varied wintertime sports they volition come across when watching the Olympics. I created a Winter Sports Writing Packet that includes a graphic organizer for taking notes equally they read equally good equally draft newspaper as well as lastly copy/publishing newspaper for each of the sports.

We've been using monthly writing prompts to practise the mutual meat writing expectations. I programme to proceed our travel amongst sentiment writing past times having them compose a slice nearly which of the Olympic sports they experience is the most exciting to watch.

{Click to Access as well as Download: Winter Sports Writing Project}

The papers inward the packet are open-ended as well as could likewise live used to writing informative pieces nearly the sports, narratives nearly a fourth dimension they participated inward the sport or do some creative writing amongst an imaginary tale nearly their experience inward the Winter Games.

I programme to display their travel then I likewise created a flag banner that I volition hang at the overstep of the bulletin board. I used those same flags to brand a matching action amongst the flag as well as the province name. They tin live used for map skills, memory, acquire fish, etc. I included both of those documents equally freebies inward the Country Brochure Packet as well as the Winter Sports Writing Packet.

I'm hoping to convey the kids likewise do i of the cute crafts shown inward these photos equally accents for the bulletin board.

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