Snow Day challenges- differentiated maths, writing literacy, science and planning winter remote

In this resource you will find differentiated planning and resources for Reception, Nursery or Year One. They are challenges and activities to be used on a snowy day or during a winter topic. Some work best when the children are playing in the snow outside. This would be suitable for remote learning.

This pack includes:

• Snowman writing challenges- children can draw, name, label the snowmen they have made and even make a fact file (which could be used later for story writing)
• Maths challenges- measuring snowmen differentiated challenges
• making snowballs - number challenges ( numeral recognition and addition/subtraction)
• Snowball target practise maths game - tally and totals
• Photos of sowmen for inspiration
• science- melting/freezing ideas and worksheet to predict and test the best way ‘free’ the toys from the ice the fastest.
• Activities are colour coded for differentiation.

Slides should be printed and used as challenge cards- I lamiate and put them around for children/staff to access. Children can access different levels of differentiation by using the colour coding and finding their name on a coloured grid. This ensures all children are suitably challenged, even in free flow/ continuous provision.

Resources and plans cover EYFS Expressive Arts and Design (EAD) , Writing (W) , Number (N), Shape, Space and Measure (SSM), Communication and Language (CL) , PSED, Physical development (PD) and Understanding the world (UTW) objectives. They meet some national curriculum areas for Year 1.