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Snow, mittens and winter animals for counting, tracing, patterns, beginning sounds, reading, writing and word problems.

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Winter worksheets for preschool

Count and circle, trace paths, dot a snowflake, finish patterns, color winter animals and trace big winter words. Also on the site: I spy winter and the mitten match pages.

Winter worksheets for kindergarten

Count and write to 10, add with pictures, beginning sounds, trace and write winter words, a big-grid word search and a snow day read-aloud. Also on the site: a winter writing prompt, a snowy days read-aloud and a snow day poem.

Winter worksheets for 1st grade

A reading passage on how animals get ready for winter, winter word problems, vocabulary and ABC order, an opinion writing prompt and a tally and bar graph. Also on the site: a winter word search and two winter reading passages.

Print at 100% (actual size) for the cleanest tracing lines.

About these winter worksheets

These winter worksheets turn snow days, mittens and sleepy bears into real practice. Preschoolers count winter clothes, trace paths to an animal's winter home, dot a snowflake and finish picture patterns. Kindergartners count and write to 10, add with pictures, hear beginning sounds and trace short winter words. 1st graders read about how animals get ready for winter, solve winter word problems, read a tally chart and write about their favorite winter fun.

Use them from the first cold snap in December through the end of February. They pair well with a science unit on weather or hibernation: our animals that hibernate, weather and seasons worksheets go deeper into those topics.

Every page is black and white line art that prints well on a school copier, on US Letter or A4. Pages with one right answer have an answer key on page 2.

Standards

  • ELOF P-LIT 6Child writes for a variety of purposes using increasingly sophisticated marks.
  • ELOF P-MATH 2Child recognizes the number of objects in a small set.
  • ELOF P-MATH 3Child understands the relationship between numbers and quantities.
  • ELOF P-MATH 7Child understands simple patterns.
  • ELOF P-PMP 3Child demonstrates increasing control, strength, and coordination of small muscles.
  • ELOF P-SCI 1Child observes and describes observable phenomena (objects, materials, organisms, and events).
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1.APrint many upper- and lowercase letters.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.ADemonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.1With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.3Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.5Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.2Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.2.DUse conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.1Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.1Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or name the book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.MD.C.4Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.A.1Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

How to use them

  1. Start a winter morning tub with the preschool pages: the dot marker snowflake, the path tracing and the count and circle page.
  2. Read a winter picture book, then use the read-aloud or the reading passage to talk about what animals do in the cold.
  3. Send the writing prompt home after a snow day so children can draw and write about what they did.
  4. Use the tally and bar graph page after a real class vote on favorite winter fun.

Teaching tips

  • Mittens and boots come in pairs, so the counting pages count single things like hats, scarves and sleds. If a child counts both mittens, talk about what a pair is.
  • For the beginning sounds page, say the picture name slowly and stretch the first sound: sss-led.
  • Hibernation, migration and staying active are three ways animals handle winter. The 1st grade passage names all three; ask children to sort animals they know into the three groups.
  • Children in warm places may never have seen snow. Show a photo or a cup of shaved ice and let them describe it.

Questions teachers and parents ask

What winter activities work for preschool?

Short, hands-on pages work best: a dot marker snowflake, tracing paths to an animal's winter home, counting winter clothes to 5, finishing picture patterns and coloring winter animals. Each takes about 10 minutes.

Do these winter worksheets mention any holiday?

No. The winter pages are about snow, cold weather, clothes and animals, so you can use them all season. Holiday pages, like Christmas and Valentine's Day, have their own topics.

Are there answer keys?

Yes. Counting, patterns, sounds, word searches, reading questions and math pages have an answer key on page 2 of the PDF. Coloring, tracing and writing pages have no single right answer.

What do 1st graders learn about animals in winter?

That animals survive winter in three main ways: some hibernate, like bears; some migrate to warmer places, like many birds; and some stay active, like squirrels and foxes. The reading passage covers all three.