The Snowy Nap (a new Jan Brett book featuring Hedgie!)

THE SNOWY NAP

Have you seen Jan Brett's newest winter book? It's called The Snowy Nap, and it features Hedgie the hedgehog! Your Kindergarten and First Grade students will LOVE how Hedgie decides to stay awake for winter to see everything he usually misses.

THE SNOWY NAP BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

Hedgie is getting ready for his winter nap, but the animals that don't hibernate tell Hedgie all the wonderful things he'll be missing...so he decides to stay awake to see what winter is like!

He wants to see the sleigh, snow, ice, frost, and everything else he misses when he hibernates.

With it's beautiful pictures and sweet story, Jan Brett describes the wonders of winter, through the eyes of a critter who is seeing it for the very first time.

Your Kindergarten and First Grade students will enjoy developing their literacy skills with The Snowy Nap and these corresponding book companion activities. The unit provides you with lesson ideas, literacy printables, comprehension activities, and a craft.

Your students will practice essential literacy skills, such as story retell, vocabulary, character traits, writing activities, problem and solution, making text to self connections, making inferences, making mental images, offering opinions, reading comprehension, and MORE!

This book study unit can be used as a whole class activity, during small group guided reading time, as invidual student work, or as part of a book club. Copy a pack for each student, and you're ready to go!

This Snowy Nap book companion will save you tons of time, is no prep, and is great to leave for a sub!

THE SNOWY NAP CRAFT

The unit includes a story wrap up activity craft, where students can write and draw about what they like about winter. This craftivity makes a cute winter bulletin board display, to showcase student learning.