Kindergarden Seasons and Weather

Seasons and Weather: Supplemental Guide 8B | Meteorology 153

Extensions 15 minutes

 Multiple Meaning Word Activity

Sentence in Context: Record

Note: You may choose to have students hold up one, two, or three

fingers to indicate which image shows the meaning being described,

or have a student walk up to the poster and point to the image being

described.

1. [Show Poster 5M (Record).] In the read-aloud you heard the word
   record, as in “The weather record is kind of like a weather diary: it
   lists what the weather was like on that day in previous, or past, years.”
   Here, record means a written report of an event. Which picture shows
   this?
   
   
   • 1
   
   
   
   


2. Record can also mean other things. Record can mean a music disc.
   Which picture shows this?
   
   
   • 3
   
   
   
   


3. Record can mean a performance that is the best of its kind. Which
   picture shows this?
   
   
   • 2
   
   
   
   


4. Now with your partner, make a sentence for each meaning of record.
   Try to use complete sentences. I will call on some of you to share your
   sentences.

Weather Report

• Tell students that they are going to pretend to be a weatherperson on
  the news.


• Remind students that a weatherperson on the news is often a
  meteorologist, meaning they study weather patterns and try to
  predict, or guess, what the weather is going to be like.


• Tell students that the class has been keeping track of the weather in
  their area in their Class Weather Diary, similar to the record of weather
  kept by a meteorologist.

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