Winter Weather Week Day 1: Weather Words

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Children learn winter weather vocabulary.

OBJECTIVE

Students will:

1. Learn winter weather vocabulary

MATERIALS

1. Paper
2. Pencil

SET UP AND PREPARE

1. Write the following winter weather vocabulary words on the chalkboard or whiteboard:
• Sun
• Sunny
• Cloud
• Cloudy
• Win
• Windy
• Thermometer
• Temperature
• Rain
• Rainy
• Snow
• Snow
• Fog
• Foggy
• Humid
• Meteorologist
• Hot
• Cold
• Cool
• Warm
• Umbrella
• Puddle

DIRECTIONS

1. Ask children to talk about what winter weather is like. How does it feel when they go outside? What does the sky look like? Make a list on the chalkboard of children's responses.
2. Invite children to glance out the classroom window, then brainstorm a flurry of weather words together. Write children's responses on the chalkboard. If children run out of responses prompt them with some of the words in the list.
3. Ask children which words have to do with winter.
4. Have children circle those words on the chalkboard.
5. Ask them to explain their reason for choosing the winter word.
6. Have children share their experiences with winter weather. Ask them to:
7. Tell about favorite things you do in winter weather.
8. Tell about a time you were in a winter storm.

LESSON EXTENSION
Read Blizzards! by Lorraine Jean Hopping, Cartwheel Books/Scholastic, 1998, New York, New York.

ASSIGNMENTS
Tell children to imagine that they have to describe a kind of weather to someone who has never experienced it before, a snowstorm to someone who lives someplace very warm. If you wish, have children brainstorm a list of phrase-starters such as the following: It looks like . . . It sounds like . . . It makes you think of . . . It makes you feel . . . Then encourage them to "paint a picture" with words, so that someone reading their description could picture the kind of weather they are describing.

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Winter Weather Day 3: Signs of the Wind
Children use vocabulary, movement, and props to illustrate winter weather concets such as wind and storms.

Winter Weather Day 5: Follow Up
Students review what they have learned about winter weather by writing and making a pinwheel.

Winter Weather Week Day 2: Today's Temperature
Teaches students about cold weather by having them take temperatures. Students also write about their own experience with weather.