Kindergarden Seasons and Weather

Seasons and Weather: Supplemental Guide 1 | What’s the Weather Like? 19

At a Glance Exercise Materials Minutes

Introducing the Read-Aloud

Domain Introduction large monthly calendar

15

Where Are We? U.S. map

Vocabular y Preview: Weather,

Month/Year large monthly calendar

Purpose for Listening

Presenting the Read-Aloud What’s the Weather Like? Instructional Master 1A-2 10

Discussing the Read-Aloud

Comprehension Questions

10

Word Work: Characteristics

 Complete Remainder of the Lesson Later in the Day

Extensions

Multiple Meaning Word Activity:

Seasons Poster 1M (Seasons)

15

Syntactic Awareness Activity:

Comparatives: Warmer and Cooler cups, water, ice

Vocabulary Instructional

Activity: Pattern

patterned items;

counting manipulatives

End-of-Lesson Check-In

Ta ke - H o m e M a t e r i a l Family Letter 1B -1–1B - 3, 1A-1 (optional )Instructional Masters

Advance Preparation

Bring in a large monthly calendar to be used with the class on a daily

basis to talk about basic units of time: day, week, month, and year.

Prepare a copy of Instructional Master 1A-2 for each student and help

students cut it into four separate Response Cards. Refer to them as

their Season Cards. Students can use their Season Cards to answer

questions. Having students hold up their Response Cards gives you a

quick way to survey their answers.

For Syntactic Awareness Activity, prepare multiple cups of water. Add

ice to some of the cups but not to others. Allow students to make

observations about which cups feel cooler and which cups feel warmer.

For Vocabulary Instructional Activity, bring in several items that have

distinct patterns on them (e.g., a patterned quilt, sweater, notebook

cover). You may also wish to provide students with manipulatives, like

counting blocks, for them to make their own patterns.