Books for Teaching Months of the Year and Seasons

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From Unit Plan: Clifford Learns About the Four Seasons and So Do We!

The following books are available in the Teacher Store.

Caps, Hats, Socks, and Mittens: A book about the four Seasons by Louise W. Borden; illustrated by Lillian Hoban
I use this book as a springboard to graph different types of seasonal clothing.

A Busy Year by Leo Lionni
I enjoy reading this book to my students! They enjoy watching the mice tend to the tree throughout the year.

What Will The Weather Be Like Today? By Paul Rogers
This book shows how the weather helps us decide what to wear. My students make a book that shows the different types of clothing worn for each season. We use magazine pictures for this book.

Look in your school library for these books:

How Do You Say It Today, Jesse Bear? By Nancy White Carlstrom
The Bear family celebrates each month of the year.

Chicken Soup With Rice By Maurice Sendak
This book has poems for each month. We present them as a play. Each child in our class memorizes their birthday month poem and recites it in costume.

For additional book recommendations, see Literature Connections K–2, 3–5
A page that highlights book lists devoted to special days and months throughout the school calendar year.

Snow and Blizzards
Where does it snow the most in the United States? What causes a Nor'easter and how often do they occur? Meteorlogists answer students' questions about winter weather.

Clothing and Insulation
Find out the kinds of clothing--both traditional and modern--that are worn in the Arctic regions. Topics include the similarities of caribou skin clothing and modern layering systems.

Weathering the Summer of 1993
From floods to droughts, cold snap to heat wave, the jet stream blew it all our way that summer. Here's how.

LESSON PLAN	Winter Weather Week Day 1: Weather Words Children learn vocabulary words and use descriptive language to communicate about winter weather.
UNIT PLAN	A Week of Winter Weather Familiarizes students with aspects of winter weather, such as wind, through scientific investigation, vocabulary lessons, and poetry writing.