Time to showcase some wonderful January and winter resources! I wanted to show you guys some January classroom activities for kindergarten through third grade. You can use in your primary classroom to make your life a little bit easier.
Holidays and topics to cover this month:
- winter season
- New Years
- snowmen
- penguins
- polar bears
- winter sports
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Consider this blog post as a catalog of January resources! I’ve included tons of resources for you to browse.
Want to purchase a couple resources? Use the coupon code ‘JANUARY‘ when you check out to receive 25% off any resource included in this blog post!
January Classroom Activities for Reading
Looking for a fun reading classroom activity for January? This winter readers theater product includes 15 stories for Readers Theater. This is a great way for students to practice fluency and expression. It is also a great team building activity for groups of two, three, or four students!
Are you looking for high-interest winter reading comprehension passages to help your students practice their close reading strategies? This winter nonfiction close reading comprehension passages pack comes with 14 weeks of activities.
These winter differentiated mini books come with three levels of reading comprehension activities for kindergarten, first, or second grade readers. Each mini book has comprehension questions that are also differentiated. These are fold-and-go mini books! All it takes is two folds! These are perfect for small group January Classroom Activities.
These winter differentiated reading comprehension passages are a perfect activity to use to help students practice their reading skills. There are 10 different winter topics covered in the passages. Each topic comes with a fiction set, a nonfiction set of comprehension passages, and answer keys. There will be 3 fiction texts for each topic and 3 nonfiction texts for each topic.
These winter nonfiction reading comprehension passages focus all on Text Features. Help your students understand text features with high-interest winter-themed reading passages. Your students will get comprehension practice while mastering the RI.2.5 and RI.3.5 standards!
Teaching January themes, like winter and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, while using fiction and nonfiction reading paired passages activities can keep students engaged throughout the month. This January Classroom Activities reading set comes with 5 paired fiction and nonfiction sets, which totals 10 passages.
January Writing Activities
The January writing prompts are made for students to use in their journals for daily writing practice. They can practice their creative writing with different seasonal writing topics for the month of January.
Are you looking to make your narrative writing fun this winter? This writing product is a fun interactive activity that involves winter prompts, real photographs, and graphic organizers.
Math and ELA Review January Classroom Activities
Are you looking for January math and literacy worksheets to use that cover all things winter? These reading, writing, math, and language worksheets are perfect for a busy teacher. In this packet, you’ll find 60+ printables for quick and easy review or teaching activities. These skills cover 1st and 2nd grade student skills.
These January and Winter themed phonics centers bring you 12 different Science of Reading activities to help students with their phonics and phonemic awareness. The 12 January centers range from medial vowels to nonsense words to simple sentence fluency.
Holidays to Cover in January
Are you teaching Martin Luther King Jr. activities? Are you looking for ways to teach MLK Jr.’s life and biography with reading and writing skills? This biography pack covers important facts about Martin Luther King Jr.’s life for students to learn. Within the pack, they will read and research him, write about him, create a flip book about him, and sort important parts of this famous man’s life.
Looking for a way to teach New Years activities without interrupting your ELA time? This reading and resolution writing craft flip book teaches the meaning of New Years and goal setting while kids practice their skills.
Standards-Based Common Core January Classroom Activities
Want to cover your Common Core standards while teaching January activities? Each Christmas activity pack is filled with ELA activities for students, such as reading, writing, language and grammar, and more. There are themed activities for each of the six Common Core Standards domains.
Your students will practice their ELA standards while incorporating the winter theme as well. This will take some of the stress off of your plate by providing you with standards-based and Common Core-aligned seasonal activities!
January Flip Book Fun
Each of my flip books for January come with a reading passage and three follow-up comprehension activity pages.
- How to Build a Snowman Flip Book
- Penguin Flip Book
- Winter Flip Book
- Polar Bear Flip Book
- Caribou Flip Book
January Resources for Teachers- FREEBIES!
I have 2 freebies available to add to your January Classroom Activities collection! The first is a writing penguin. This penguin writing freebie comes with five pages to use in your writing instruction or ELA practice stations. I showed a picture above for the differentiated reading mini books. Here are three free samples – one from each level for a story called ‘It’s Too Cold.’
Thanks for reading this collection of January Classroom Activities.
