Big vs. Small Snowmen

Language Goals

Expressive Language: big, small, that, Medium (if students are ready for it)

Receptive Language: Is questions

Have a variety of snowmen big and small cut out in different colors. I put mine in a guess bag for the kids to reach in and draw one out (they love it!). Set two hula hoops on the floor. Label one hoop big and one hoop small. Do an example of each. 

Call each student up one at a time to reach into the guess bag and pull out a snowman. 

T: Is that snowman big or small?

S: That snowman is big

Put it in the big hula hoop

Once all the snowmen have been sorted, introduce the medium sized snowman. Show the students it isn't big or small, but that its between the sizes (I put it between the two hula hoops). See if students remember the word (I taught it during our pumpkin unit). Add the medium snowmen to the bag and pick up the big and small snowmen. Repeat the lesson. 

 

Centers

Color and cut the snowmen used for the language lesson. Glue the snowmen in order of size. 

Poke snowmen with a golf tee (have a simple picture of a snowman copied on white paper, tape this to a piece of construction paper and poke the outlines with a golf tee. The picture shape comes through on the construction paper).