Weather Unit

Extensions

• center -- "Weather Happenings" (see included description of math game)
• daily weather forecasting -- Create a mock television set (with a large cardboard box cut into a t.v. screen) for the students to stand behind each morning and "forecast" the weather. Provide laminated weather symbols the students can use during their talk of the day's weather.
• unit activity -- Brainstorm all the ways that weather can be forecasted or delivered to all people (television, radio, telephone, newspaper). Provide an example of each for the students to see or listen to. Graph which method their families use the most. Discuss the ways that weather used to be forecasted in the past.
• community building -- Teach the students the following chant. May be a good review for homonyms and a method to get the students' attention (similar to turning off the lights).
  • Whether the weather is hot.
  • Whether the weather is cold.
  • We'll be together, whatever the weather
  • Whether we like it or not!
• community building -- Create a "rainstorm" with the students. Show the students the four different sounds they can make with their bodies: first -- rubbing their palms together; second -- light applauding with two fingers on each hand; third -- snapping their fingers, and fourth -- hitting their knees with their hands. "Conduct" the rainstorm by calling out the number of the sounds and create the sounds of it raining in the classroom.