Below is a list of fun winter-themed learning activities to enjoy with your children during winter break.Share your winter break fun photos using #KUSDwinterfun on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram!
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An activity a day keeps the winter blues away!
This is an activity chart to keep 3- to 5-year-olds busy during winter break. There are 14 activities to keep young children learning and having fun across all domains of learning while at home! Do one each day – or a bunch!
Winter Break Fun! I Can Explore Books
This activity is a way for families to read with their children over winter break while providing guidance on how to develop children’s literacy skills during book reading.
Winter Break Fun! I Can Hear Words in a Sentence
This activity is a way for families to read with their children over winter break while providing guidance on how to develop children’s literacy skills during book reading.
Winter Break Fun! I Can Make Observations About the World Around Me
This activity helps 3- to- 5-year-olds continue to build their vocabulary over winter break. It encourages children to describe an object hidden in a “mystery bag” so that other family members can guess what it is.
Winter Break Fun! I Can Talk About the Things I Draw and Build
This activity helps 3- to- 5-year-olds continue to build their vocabulary over winter break. It encourages families to ask open-ended questions while their child is drawing a picture to continue to develop children’s language skills.
Winter Break Fun! I Can Write My Ideas
This activity helps 3- to- 5-year-olds continue to practice writing over winter break. Family members will help their child to create a grocery list to help their child build confidence with writing and understand that writing has a purpose.
4K through 2nd Grade
Daily Routines
This website has tons of ideas for ways families can do math together based on everyday household tasks – and it’s available in English and Spanish. These activities are mostly appropriate for PreK-2nd grade.
4K through 3rd Grade
Winter Listen Up! Following Directions
Students complete a Winter Wonderland coloring activity by listening to one or two-step directions. Students can then create their own directions and let a sibling or family member try!
4K through 5th Grade
Get Moving Today! Activity Calendar
Monthly outdoor activity calendar with fun daily suggestions.
Math At Home
This is the curriculum we use for math. It has so many great home activities that would be wonderful at any time during the year!
Hand Strengthening Through Everyday Play
Hand strengthening activities for our younger learners. These activities can help promote strong hands and fingers for printing.
Winter Break Reading Challenge
Students are challenged to read for a set amount of minutes. Each time they read for that set amount, they cut out a marshmallow and glue it on their decorated hot chocolate mug. Marshmallows have different ideas for fun reading tasks.
Winter Break Fun!
Winter break ideas created by Heidi Bassler at Southport Elementary School.
4K through 6th Grade
Relaxing Breathing Practices for Kids: Hot Cocoa Breath
This is a fun winter mindfulness activity imagining you are holding a delicious cup of hot cocoa or your favorite winter treat. Mindfulness practices improve brain development, focus and self regulation. There is also a beautifully illustrated version of this in the book “Breathe Like a Bear.”
4K through 8th Grade
Virtual Winter Fieldtrips for Kids
Explore iconic winter scenes and experience of snow-covered mountains, sledding, ice castles, evergreen trees, and more with this ultimate collection of Winter virtual field trips for kids.
K through 8th Grade
12 Ways to Do Math at Home
Math is all around us. Everyday activities and family adventures provide many rich opportunities to engage in mathematical thinking with your child. Here are just some of the ways you can do math at home all year long!
2nd through 4th Grade
Snowball Fight
This fun winter snowball game offers 0-12 multiplication practice for elementary aged students. It can be linked to any Google classroom. The upsides are that it is free and the game will not let a student move on unless they get the multiplication fact correct. The downside is that there is no time limit, and there is no way of tracking student progress.
3rd Grade
Stranger In the Woods
Enjoy this story with your children as they listen, learn, and even laugh out loud listening to “Stranger in the Woods” by Carl R. Sams II and Jean .
8th through 12th Grade
Winter Break…12 days of Assignments
The “12 days of winter break assignments” challenges students to complete 4 of the 12 “fun” activities. The activities range from disconnecting from your electronic devices for 24 hours, talking with the oldest member of your family and having them tell you a family story, taking an hour long walk, or reading a good book. Created by Susan Akina at Bradford High School.
9th through 11th Grade
The Chrismas Truce, Winter 1914
Explore, what Some Say was a Christmas Miracle but Others Say was a Myth!?!
9th through 12th Grade
Method Test Prep
Juniors should log into their Xello account and work on Method Test Prep to prepare for the ACT test in spring. 9,10 & 12 can log into their Xello account and work on the ACP exploring careers and colleges.
Build Your Stax
This competitive stock market game is definitely addictive. Watch your stocks rise and fall. Invest in CD’s, stocks, gold, and more. Play alone or with a friend.