Seasons and Weather: Supplemental Guide PP | Pausing Point 107Songs and Chants for Seasons
You may wish to have students learn different songs about the seasons.
Taking Temperatures: Water
Materials: Cups of warm, cool, and ice-cold water; thermometer;
chart paper, chalkboard, or whiteboard
Place cups of warm, cool, and ice-cold water on a table. Have students
feel the water. Take the temperature of each cup of water and show
students the readings on the thermometer. Record the temperature of
each cup on a chart. Ask students what they think will happen to the
temperature of the water throughout the day. Later in the day, take the
temperature of the water again. Have students feel the water again.
Record the temperature of each cup on the chart. Ask students if their
predictions were correct.
➶ Above and Beyond: You may wish to have students do a water
temperature experiment in small groups. Ask them to predict where
the red line in the thermometer will be in a cup of ice water. Then
add warm water and ask students to predict what will happen to the
red line. Do this for various combinations (e.g., putting ice into warm
water, putting ice into cold water, putting hot water into warm water).
Holidays and Seasons
Materials: Seasons Comparison Chart; large monthly calendar;
drawing paper, drawing tools
Show students the Seasons Comparison Chart. Then show students
images of the holidays in the Flip Book in random order. Show the month
in which the holiday is celebrated. Ask students to name each holiday
and tell which season it occurs in. Provide sentence frames to assist
students in answering in complete sentences: “The holiday is.
happens in .”
Have students draw pictures of their favorite holidays. Help them to write
at the top of their drawings the name of the holiday, and the season in
which it occurs.
Cultural Holidays
You may wish to present various cultural holidays that your students
might celebrate. Find out about what the holiday celebrates, what special