TJ Homeschooling: Winter

Showing posts with label Winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winter. Show all posts

Winter is coming! | Winter Learning Activities

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Winter is around the corner! It feels like it is already here in Arizona (and from what I gather pretty much everywhere else in the US). We don't get snow in our parts but I was so surprised when I learned that areas like Flagstaff do. We're hoping to make a day trip to one of the snowy areas this year as most of my kids have never seen snow.

At any rate, I've collected some winter based resources for the four core educational subjects as well as a few things for Islamic studies.

Language








Math

Winter Math Activities  (The Tutor Coach.com)

Winter Math Activities (Math Wire.com)

Hot Chocolate Counting Mats

Preschool Math Activities

Tens and Ones Winter Place Value Activity

Science



Snow Science Experiments

20+ Winter Science Experiments for Grades K through 5

How Do Snowflakes Form?

Social Studies

Snowy Day Winter Lessons (scroll down to a few winter social studies ideas)

Islamic Studies

(And with all those Allah's Grace and Protections for their taming, We cause) the (Quraish) caravans to set forth safe in winter (to the south), and in summer (to the north without any fear)
(106:2)


The word for winter in Arabic is "Ash-shitaa"

I've got a few Arabic resources for the Arabic seasons on my Arabic vocabulary page (scroll down to "Seasons" and/or "Weather").


Points of Benefit

Abu Huraira reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “When the heat is severe, then let it cool down for prayer. Verily, severe heat is from the raging of Hell. The Hellfire complained to its Lord saying: My Lord, my parts are eating each other. So it was given permission to make a breath in the winter and a breath in the summer. They are the strongest heat you feel and the strongest cold you feel.”
Source: Sahih Bukhari 512, Sahih Muslim 617


Khutbah: Treasures of Winter to Invest in the Hereafter (audio, 19:53)
Take notes on the khutbah and make a learning poster to remind you about the benefits of winter.






A few questions I came up with based upon the reading:

  • What are three blessings of winter?
  • Can we only give sadaqah to Muslims?
  • When giving charity, we should make sure not to do what?
  • What is responsible for the strongest heat you feel of the summer and the bitter cold you feel during the winter?
  • When do we pray the night prayer?
  • What are two reasons it is easy to fast in the winter?


From the Benefits of Winter: Sayings of the Salaf

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Our Winter Wall

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Our "fall wall" (Instagram) was a hit in our house this year, so on the first day of winter, December 21, I started decorating for our "winter wall." I'm hoping to make it a seasonal tradition as it is a nice focal point in the house, a place to display seasonal artwork and it provides us with learning opportunities.
Here is what we currently have on our wall:

Winter Banner
I loved the fall banner that I found online but finding a similar winter one was a bit tricky. There were many holiday ones and "let it snow" ones (we barely get snow in our parts so that one wasn't really appealing). So, with my limited design skills I made my own banner which came out better than I had expected. I was going to run some yarn across it so that it actually looked like a hanging banner, but, well, we'll see lol. Sometimes it's a major accomplishment just to get something up.

You can download  the Winter Banner here




Winter Words
Just like for our fall wall, I found a freebie winter wall words printable (from the same person) at Teachers Pay Teachers.


These are just a few of the words we have displayed.  There are 40 winter words in this resources. I loved the winter clothes words and she does have some holiday words as well, which obviously we omitted for our use.

 Winter Crafts
So we've started a few simple winter crafts. There's our hot cocoa Popsicle stick craft:

Popsicle sticks are my number one go to for crafts this year as I got a box of 1000 of them last year and umm, you can see how much we still have.


(I had gotten a box of jumbo ones as well and we went through that one really quick but I guess I had these out of sight otherwise I'm sure these would be gone too).

The inspiration for this hot cocoa mug craft came from the Glued to My Crafts blog where you can find instructions but it's pretty explanatory looking at the picture I think.

Then there's our Popsicle stick snowflake:


This was another easy one. We painted the sticks and then glued them together and added glitter.

So, those are our winter crafts so far. I've collected some more winter craft ideas on my Winter Craft Pinterest board:

Happy Winter!
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