Kindergarden Seasons and Weather

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

 Syntactic Awareness Activity

Comparatives: Warmer and Cooler

Note: Use a cup of water with ice in it and a cup of water without ice to

demonstrate warmer and cooler. Allow students to feel the temperature

of the water in each cup before continuing with the activity.

Directions: When we want to compare two things and tell about how

warm or how cool they are, we use the words warmer and cooler. This

cup of water has ice in it. [Show cup of water with ice.] This cup of water

does not have ice in it. [Show cup of water without ice.]

Which is cooler, the cup of water with ice, or the cup of water without

ice?

• The cup of water with ice is cooler than the cup of water without ice.
  Which is warmer, the cup of water with ice, or the cup of water without
  ice?


• The cup of water without ice is warmer than the cup of water with ice.
  I will ask you questions about two things. Tell me which one is warmer or
  which one is cooler.
  Note: As needed, restate students’ answers so that they are
  grammatically correct. Have students repeat the corrected sentence.

1. Which is warmer, the weather in winter or the weather in summer?

• The weather in summer is warmer than the weather in winter.

2. Which is cooler, the weather in winter, or the weather in spring?

• The weather in winter is cooler than the weather in spring.

3. Which is cooler, rain or snow?

• Snow is cooler than rain.

4. Which is warmer, a sunny summer day or a windy autumn day?

• A sunny summer day is warmer than a windy autumn day.

 Vocabulary Instructional Activity

Word Work: Pattern

1. In the read-aloud you heard, “[T]he weather pattern in the summer is
   always mostly sunny and warm.”


2. Say the word pattern with me three times.


3. A pattern is something that repeats itself. We can see patterns in
   weather and in other things around us.