20 Seasons and Weather: Supplemental Guide 1 | What’s the Weather Like?
Note to Teacher
In order to gain the full benefit from this domain, it is important that
students acquire a good understanding of the basic units of time, such
as day, week, month, and year. It is strongly recommended that a large
monthly calendar be used on a daily basis to review day, week, month,
and year. You may wish to use the songs and chants in Instructional
Master 1A-1 to help students learn the days of the week, the months of
the year, and the cycle of the seasons. The songs and chants can be
sung to the tune of “O My Darling, Clementine.” (You may wish to make
copies of the songs and chants and send them home with the Family
Letter.)
If this is not part of your classroom routine already, you can consider
doing a daily weather check at a set time during the day to track what
the weather is like over the next few weeks. This domain includes a Class
Weather Diary activity where your class will make observations about
temperature (hot/warm/cool/cold), cloud cover (cloudy/partly cloudy/
sunny), precipitation (drizzle/rain/heavy rain/snow), and wind (not windy/
windy).