Leap Year Activities 2024 | Leap Day Writing | Craft | Leap Frog February 29

leap year; leap day activities Learn about Leap Year with these books, posters, and activities to help your kids understand in kindergarten, first, and second grade! Reading, writing, science, math, and crafts are all in this pack!

I celebrate a birthday in 2024: I turn....12! So, I made a fun pack to help your students celebrate the rarity (and awesomeness) of the leap year! You won't have another chance for another 4 years, so take advantage of it! :)

Included:

**Lesson Suggestions to teach about the Earth's orbit around the Sun

**Headbands, piggy bank, and "coins" for role-playing

**Full-screen color book to display on your whiteboard or print

**B&W student mini-versions to reread and color

**Foldable Mini-book about Leap Year

**Differentiated Reading Passages

**Writing Craft Several writing prompt choices, plus blank

**True / False Printable Worksheet with answer key

**Differentiated Leap Day posters (3 versions)

**2 'Hoppy' Leap Day foldable cards

**2 Dab-the-Frog printables (find ways to make 4 or 29)

**Build-a-Froggy: Students cut and paste to dress the frog, then write about it (differentiated)

**Build-a-Frog-Life-Cycle: Students cut and paste to sequence the life cycle, then write about it (differentiated)

**Writing Prompt: If I could leap to a different time period...

**Persuasive Writing: Which day should Leap Year Babies celebrate on non-leap years? (I always get asked if I celebrate on February 29th or March 1st!)

**Anagram: Build words using the letters in 'Leap Day'

Want to read more? Click here to read my blog post on teaching about Leap Year: Teaching About Leap Year

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