Wacky Weather Fun!

One of my favorite units to teach is weather and the seasons! We incorporate weather into our calendar time every morning so the kids usually have a little background knowledge to work with when we get started. I have classroom jobs, one of which is the calendar helper, and that person looks out the window every morning and reports the weather: How does the sky look? How does it feel outside? Once we learn the seasons we talk about what season we are currently in.

I have lots of books on weather and the seasons and here are some of my favorites:

 

We do this unit for two weeks and the first week we focus on weather vocabulary and observing the weather. In their science journals every day the kids would illustrate the weather: 

In addition to talking about the weather, we discussed what we would need to wear in different kinds of weather:

Later in the week, the kids had to illustrate each kind of weather in their own weather book:

I try to incorporate at least one or two crafts for every unit. These two are some of my faves:

Our second week is all about the seasons! We learn the name for the seasons and what makes them special. After reading several books about the seasons we did a season sort as a whole class:

We also played a super fun sorting game from Lakeshore where the kids had different objects and symbols from each season and they had to place them in the correct season:

 

The kids did a web for each season where they drew different things found or worn during that season:

  

 

Finally the kids drew their favorite season and we made a class book:

 

 

If you enjoyed these activities, check out my weather unit by clicking on the picture below! The first three people to comment with their email will get a free copy!