Peter wears a warm red snowsuit to go outside to play in the snow. Discuss with your students why Peter wore the snowsuit. Talk with your students about the clothes they wear to keep warm in the winter, such as hats, gloves, scarves, coats and snow boots. Show pictures and written words to expand their vocabulary. Let students bring in some of their cold weather clothes to show the class. Next, talk about the clothes people wear to the beach and how these are different than cold weather clothes. Use a globe to talk about the clothes people wear in different parts of the country.
In "The Snowy Day," Peter puts snow in his pocket, but it melts. Ask students why they think the snowball melted. Conduct an experiment to find out why, recommends the Scholastic website. Gather three cups and put three ice cubes into each of them. Place one in the classroom and one in the freezer. Place another cup in a bowl and pour hot water around the cup. Ask students to predict what they think will happen with the ice in each cup, suggests Scholastic. Write down students' predictions. After an hour, check on the ice cubes. Ask students to count how many ice cubes are left in each cup.
Create a cold weather sensory table for your students. Blend ice in a blender until it resembles snow and place it in a water table or large plastic tub, suggests the website Everything Preschool. Give each student a pair of mittens so they can play in the snow. Provide shovels, spoons and other tools so they may play in the ice. Place cold weather toy animals, like penguins and polar bears, in the ice for students to play with.
In "The Snowy Day," Peter makes tracks in the snow. Help students create a snow tracks art project, recommends Scholastic. Give students a piece of colored construction paper and ask them to paint it white. Before the paint dries, let students use different items to make tracks, such as toothpicks, straws or their own fingers. Let the pictures dry and then display them in the classroom. For a fun alternative, cover a table with black paper and spray on shaving cream or whipped cream. Encourage students to make tracks with different objects.