Weather
by Christine Tax
1. Science- Create a cloud ina bottle. Keep a weather journal tracking what the weather is like over a 2 week period.
2. Math- Comparing, adding, and identifying temperature. Compare and graph how many days it has been sunny, breezy, cold, etc
3. Social Studies- Identify what parts of the map have what kind of weather typically. Also what sort of clothes and items do you need for each kind of weather.
4. Literacy- Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
4.1. Writing- If it could rain anything what would you want it to rain? Go through writing process. What do you see in the clouds?
4.2. Reading/Books:Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, Looks Like Spilt Milk,
4.3. Spelling- Weather related words as wells as vocab words from the stories.
5. Fine Arts
5.1. Music- Have students learn about the moods of songs. Tie these into the types of weather, rainy, stormy, sunny, cloudy. Students can also make a thunderstorm using different instruments.
5.2. Physical Education- Students do weather relays. Raining (jumping), Windy (Sprint), Breezy (jog), Sunny (walk).
5.3. Art- create weather scenes with paint. They can also use different texture items to create different parts of their scene.