Year 1 Snow Day Learning Tasks

9^th January 2026

Below are some activities that you can do together during today’s snow day. We encourage you to get outside and spend some time playing in the snow together if you are able and it is safe to do so.  Hope you have some fun! From all the Year 1 team.

Snow activities:

1. Make 2 small snow balls (if you have a plastic container to put them in that would be great!). Put the 2 snow balls in 2 different places e.g. one inside and one outside.
   
   Which snowball will melt quicker? Make a prediction and see if you are right!
   Discuss what has happened to the snowball and talk about melting and freezing together.
    
2. Can you make 2 snowmen outside? Can you make one taller than the other?
    
3. If you go sledging, who travelled the furthest down the hill on the sledge? Who travelled the shortest distance?
   
    
4. Watch: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09jhkbr/the-snow-queen
   
   A musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's tale of a brave village girl trying to rescue her best friend before the Snow Queen freezes him forever. 
    
5. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bf5g0v/kit-pup-series-1-23-melting-and-freezing
   
    
6. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0001lc0/kit-pup-series-1-52-snow?seriesId=unsliced&page=2
    
7. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bnfntk/kit-pup-series-1-31-ice?seriesId=unsliced&page=1

Maths:

Complete the starter and exit quiz from this link: https://www.thenational.academy/pupils/programmes/maths-primary-year-1/units/counting-to-and-from-20/lessons/counting-forward-to-20-and-back-from-20/overview

Questions to ask:

How do you know (10) is the answer?

What comes before or after (13)?

What is the biggest number?

What is the smallest number?

Discuss together how you worked out the answer together.

Reading:

Curl up somewhere warm and read a book together.  Choose your favourite book or a book you have not read for a while.

When you have read the book talk about the characters, the setting, the problem and the solution.  The children are used to seeing the pictures below when doing this in class together.

Writing:

Get a clipboard and a pencil and sit so you can see out of a window.  What can you see?

Write a list (draw pictures too if you wish to) of what you can see.  Remember to use segmenting fingers when writing words (sound out words you are unsure of and use one finger per sound in the word) and write what you can hear. Can you see any of these: snow, tree, path, swing, sun, cloud or grass?

There are also some great games here : https://fiveminutemum.com/games-and-activities/play/schoolkids