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Weather themed learning ideas to include science, math, art, geography, history, language arts, reading and videos into your weather unit study for kids.
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Learning about the weather can be fun! I have found that breaking things down sometimes into smaller unit studies can really help a child to understand a particular subject. I am excited so share this weather unit study with you! If you are in a hurry and want to come back to this post later, you can go ahead pick up
LINK to the Weather Unit resource.Just the basics to prepare your lesson plan if you have English Language Learners in your class. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Weather-Activities-for-EFL-Learners-703999 And it is available at another store: https://www.bilingualmarketplace.com/products/weather-activities-for-efl-learners?variant=32572891725962 Weather Graph: it´s easier to do graphs when you have small groups, but when you have more than 30 children in a class you can still do it but have everything ready. Use the cutouts or the weather puppets. Collecting data and organizing it can be done in a variety of ways. Comparing results makes the vocabulary meaningful to the students. Weather puppets: Have the students create their weather puppets or have some ready to use. Show each weather puppet and ask:How´s the weather ? Ss: It´s sunny. Ask another question: Do you like sunny weather ? Ss: Yes ! Besides having the puppets , wear a Weather Crown. Make it for you or for the child(ren) out of construction paper. Your students will love the special crown. And some paper glasses will be fun,too. Send me email if you want the template for free. Learning nursery rhymes as children immerses them in the culture of the language, besides it helps with pronunciation, vocabulary and the language rhythm .Send in the rhyme paper home so parents can sing it along. Craft projects benefit students by applying English to art. You can use my weather dial or design your own. Have yellow tissue paper for making the little balls for the sun, silver glitter for the snow, cotton balls for the clouds. Have the students identify each weather symbol. Help the students assemble the wheel. After the dial is ready, name a weather word and have the students move then arrow to the symbol and repeat the word. Have them look out and say How´s the weather today ? and point to the arrow towards that symbol. If you want this file, write an email: [email protected] and I´ll send it to you. I love my pocket chart, it can be used for every class. It not only saves you time as you are not writing on the board and it is very interactive, since any child can place the weather strip on the pocket chart every day. And no lesson is complete without a book. Just three Weather worksheets to add up to the theme. worksheet 1: The first page of all my worksheets are flashcards. It´s a simple resource, but we never have enough for each child. That´s why I created this page as a flashcards for all of your visual learners. Children will color them as you guide them or as they wish and make them colorful. I also include the written word that is traceable. Use them to present, practice or recycle the weather words. Prepare some games that be carried out in small groups. Then can take them home and play with their parents. You can place them on cardboard to make sure you can't see through them. And for your kinesthetic students use TPR activities: Stick the flashcards around the room and say a word and have the students point to it. Students can act as teachers and give the instructions . worksheet 2: Children need to talk about numbers at the very beginning. Let them experiment with basic math concepts and the language of math. I drew a raindrop onto paper and then traced it onto fun foam to create a raindrop to glue onto a yogurt bottle cap. That way I created a stamp to color the umbrella. Then, I had the students cut the raindrop numbers and the umbrella. I had then glue all the pieces onto colored paper and place the raindrops in a number sequence. Students can also place them on the umbrella or on the ground. The possibilities are many. worksheet 3: Enhancing children understanding of the weather is teaching beginning science concepts. I placed children in 4 different weather scene to be matched to the correct weather item. worksheet activity 1. Have children match the weather from each flashcard from worksheet 1 to the children in each weather scene in worksheet 3. They can glue together each set onto different color cardboard. worksheet activity 2. Since the flashcards are big and the weather cards for the worksheet 3 are small you can do a sorting activity into big and small. And to add up to this unit I made the letter arts and crafts. Link: http://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2017/09/letters-arts-and-crafts-collection.html SO, what is new? First a game board. Just to add a little cooperative learning to the ESL classroom setting. I taped a metal clip that I opened onto each game marker. Students say the name of the weather where they land and say the numbers of the die as they move on the squares. Mobile! The good thing about them is that they go with theme and can be done with anything, I used a hanger and half of a plastic plate. Even though they are simple to make so children might need assistance and that is a chance for you to speak about the vocabulary words. After all it is a nice decoration for the classroom. After they are done, students can say all the vocabulary words as they point to them. Here is a short video. I haven’t created more awards in all this time. I saw these tickets and thought of how it is for children to receive an award. Give them at the end of the lesson assessment. Please leave your comments here ! Follow me!
Note: This unit is part 3 of 3 units included in the Complete Weather Unit Bundle. Be sure to check out the complete bundle and save $$!This product is the third in my 3-part unit on weather. In this unit, students will learn how to apply prior knowledge of winds and air pressure to interpret we...
Games call for repetition of the weather vocabulary without even realizing. It will be the most popular part of your lesson. Change your games each day. Here is the link to the complete EFL resource: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Weather-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-19-7255772 · Dominoes involve rules, manipulating the cards and classmates participation. The Weather Domino game is directed to vocabulary recognition. · Bingo is great to play at the end of the lesson as they review the new vocabulary. The anxiety of a new Weather Unit language will lower by playing fun and exciting games. Bingo is usually for listening if you call the cards but any student can be your assistant as in calling the cards.They will color the weather items in any of the participating colors. The Weather Unit file folder game can be used as an independent activity as it will provide extra practice with shapes and the weather words. If the students work in teams they can correct each other. · This other game will help review the weather words as they move the playing pieces around the game board. Vocabulary expansion can be put to use for student interaction. Play from start to the finish as students will concentrate to see who wins. Warm up the phrases: It’s my/your turn. Roll the dice. Take a card. This game board has some cards that the students have to turn from the pack and say the weather in order to place the marker on that spot, the winner is the one that get to the finish spot which has the rainbow. have the students name the weather: It's windy. It's sunny. It's snowing. · Weather Unit Half cards game helps with memorization and matching. · Wheel Spinners for the Weather Unit will make your students engaged and motivated to tell the weather. It can also be used along the printable book. · Weather Unit Number picture matching cards to show what they know related to numbers and the quantities of weather symbols. This game is for identifying numbers and counting the sunrays and the raindrops. Have the students establish the number sequence 1 to 10 on the floor or table. Mix up all the cards and have the students match them all in a traditional way. Another idea is to place them into a plastic bag and have students grab one and at your signal students walk around the room to find the match. · The pocket charts can be used for group meetings. Use the pointer made with the cutouts from this resource to read each Weather phrase that you put up. Then, have a student to be the teacher and read to the group. · Puzzle are for learning and develop spatial awareness. Start with this Weather unit Vocabulary game. Include the review of the Emotions in the Weather Unit. This is a simple file folder game. You can do it this way with the phrases and students match the pictures or all the way around. It can also be a memory game if you print the cards double. Check the last blog post for the Weather Unit Worksheets! https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/09/weather-unit-worksheets-for.html Join my Facebook group! ESL/EFL Preschool Teachers Check my Instagram Account! https://www.instagram.com/rosamelia_eslteacher/ Follow me for more on the Weather Resource!
