Kindergarden Seasons and Weather

Seasons and Weather: Supplemental Guide 1A | What’s the Weather Like? 21

Introducing the Read-Aloud 15 minutes

Domain Introduction

Note: You may wish to use the songs and chants in Instructional Master

1A-1 to help students learn the days of the week and months of the year.

• Show students a large monthly calendar.


• Ask students: “What is this? What kind of information does it give us?
  What do we use it for?” Call on volunteers to answer. Explain that it is
  a calendar. A calendar shows us the day, week, and month.


• Point to the current date and explain that today is one day. Run your
  fingers across one week—from Sunday to Saturday—and explain that
  this is one week.


• Have the class count out seven days (1–7) in one week. Then have
  students repeat the names of the days of the week after you: Sunday,
  Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Te ll
  students that seven days equals—or makes up—one week.


• Count out the number of weeks in a month (1–4 or 5). Tell students
  that a little over four weeks make up one month. Then, indicating all of
  the days of the month, explain that all of these days together make up
  one month.


• Show the different pages of months on the calendar as the class
  counts the number of months (1–12). Explain that twelve months make
  up one year. Then have students repeat the names of the months of
  the year after you: January, February, March, April, May, June, July,
  August, September, October, November, and December.


• Finally, explain that within the twelve months, there are four different
  seasons. Tell students that the seasons—winter, spring, summer, and
  autumn (or fall)—occur at different times of year. Tell them that they
  are going to learn about the four different seasons in a year.

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