WEATHER and Language/ Literature


Make A Rain Booklet
Make into a shape book (eg. raindrop or an umbrella)
- title: "This is the Rain"
-page 1,2:clouds and sun
"These are the clouds, all puffy and gray, that block out the sun on a cool spring day."
-page 3,4:farm scene and a city scene
"These are the raindrops falling from clouds on country farms and on city crowds."
-page 5,6:flowers
"This is the rain that keeps falling down, watering flowers all over the town."
-page 7,8 :rainbow and sun
"This is the rainbow that comes when the sun shines in the sky when the rain is all done."
-page 9,10:happy faces or smiling children
"So, when it's raining and your feeling bad, think about rain and be happy, not sad. rain's good for gardens and for people too. the sun will come out when the rain is all through."

When It Is... (weather writing)
Make an activity sheet for the children to finish these sentences.
When it is sunny,______
When it is windy,______
When it is rainy,_______
When it is cloudy,______
When it is stormy,______
Before having them complete the sentences ask them to think about
"What do you do in each kind of weather and how does it make you feel?"

Haunted House
What kind of weather would make a good haunted house story even spookier? Write a story about a haunted house and use as many weather-related words as you can!

Keep a Weather Journal
Make sheets for the children to keep a daily journal.

Make a vocabulary word book about weather: Snow, sleet, hail, ice, frost, mist, fog, etc.

Make umbrella shapes on butcher paper and ask students,
"If you could go out and play in the rain, what would you like to do?".
Write their responses on the umbrella and put on display in your classroom.

Read to the students Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Model writing for the students
of what food they would love to fall from the sky. Talk about the problems that would occur in the town if certain foods fell. Have students write about how their community would work together if such weather occurred. Include weather forecasting words and style. Add illustrations of the weather in food terms or a map of the weather forecast with food symbols.

Read It Looked Like Spilt Milk
Tell the students that they are going to go on their own "cloud search" outside. Encourage them to use their imagination and creativity as they look at the real clouds outside. Tell them to look at a variety of clouds, keeping notes on the different shapes they find. Encourage them to even make rough sketches of the cloud so they do not forget what they saw.

Read the poem "Who Has Seen the Wind?" (can be found on the POEM page)and then look outside or go outside.  Ask: Can you see the wind? What direction is the wind blowing? When outside do these activities: Run with the wind. Run into the wind. Which is easier? Run faster than the wind. slower. Skip with the wind.Jump. Hop. Stand still and move your arms like the wind.
Twirl and whirl like the wind. Wet a finger and hold it up in the air. What do you feel? Provide streamers to run with and balloons to chase. Blow bubbles. Which way do they go?

Weather Riddles
Make up some riddles on index cards for the children.
They'll have fun coming up with some too!
egs.
I keep your balloon flying high.  I sail your kite up in the sky.  I am ___________.
I help the plants and trees to grow.  I fall from clouds gray and low.  I am __________.
I am a star shining bright.  I give you heat, I give you light.  I am the _______.
I am icy crystals, lacy and white.  As I fall to earth I'm a beautiful sight.   I am _______.

Rain Helps Things Grow
Have children find pictures of things in magazines that grow by the help of the rain (trees, flowers,moss, grass,etc.). Glue the pictures onto paper and write a sentence about each.
Entitle the book Rain Helps Things Grow .

My Favorite Weather
Have children dictate or write a story about their favorite type of weather or simply have them illustrate their favorite type of weather. 

Writing Activity
Pretend you are a weather forecaster. Write a description of what the weather would be like on your favorite kind of day. Draw a picture to illustrate that day.

Weather ABCs activity sheet
Have the students fill in the blank with a weather-related word.
A is for______
B is for ______
etc.
The Weather Words page may help!

Write a Weather ACROSTIC poem
Acrostic poems are poems in which the first letter of each of the lines form a word.
Use a weather word and write an acrostic poem.
Eg.

The Weather Words page may help!

In the Winter I'll wear-Writing Activity
In the winter I'll wear _______________.
But not in the summer!

You can do this for different seasons.

When it Snows Writing Activity
When it snows I can _________________.
I can _________________.
I can _________________.
But I can't ____________.

Do this for different types of weather.

Read The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins. Here are some discussion questions:
-What did the wind blow in the book?
-Has that ever happened to you?
-Have you ever lost something because it blew away in the wind?
-Does the wind sometimes scare you?
-Sometimes wind can do damage to things.
-What might wind damage or destroy?
-Tell a story about anything that happened to you when it was very windy.

Share the story Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs and have students write their own story about a crazy weather day.

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