The Snowy Day (Weston Woods)
From Weston Woods Storybook Films · 1964
6 minPre-KK1stReading & Writing (ELA)
Summary
Ezra Jack Keats's Caldecott-winning story comes to life: Peter wakes to a city blanketed in snow and spends the day making tracks, snow angels, and snowballs, and saving a snowball in his pocket for later. A quiet, joyful ode to a child's first snowy morning. Weston Woods' very first animated film.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Peter explores his neighborhood on the first snowy day of winter.
- What are all the things Peter does in the snow? Which would you try first?
- Why doesn't the snowball in Peter's pocket last? What happened to it?
- How do you think Peter feels at the beginning of the day, and at the end?
- Tell about a time you played outside in the snow, rain, or wind.
Quick work-a-long
Words to know: snowball, tracks, angel, crunch
- Peter left tracks in the snow. Act out three different ways Peter moved (stomping, dragging a stick, sliding).
- Draw the snowball melting in Peter's pocket and write one sentence about why it disappeared.