Weather Unit worksheets for Kindergarten Teaching

The practice part for the Weather unit is done with the worksheets. Children learn better when they are involved in enjoyable tasks.                Here is the complete resource to write your lesson plan:    https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Weather-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-19-7255772

I am adding worksheets to each unit as they keep students focused on the theme.

·       This is the set of the vocabulary worksheets. Complete them and turn them into flashcards for the students. They can take them home to show their parents what they working on in class. Students can have their own feed me box for either practicing the words or the weather symbols.

     

The worksheets can be used to assess the students’ progress. This is a weather matching worksheet with a focus on the rays of the sun.

 As you have previously taught the numbers, these worksheets students can do individually. There are cutouts with numbers that students can use to match onto every number. The focus is on the plural form.

Ask information questions with How many?

Teacher: How many sunrays?

Students: seven! 

More Weather and numbers worksheets.Counting is an essential skill to include in your lesson plan.

Students listen and color the sun as you say. At the same time trace numbers to later match the word to the number on each sun, reinforcing one-to-one correspondence.

Take a look!

Integrate math with the weather theme, making number recognition more engaging. Students can count clouds, write the number in the space provided. A worksheet helping students connect numbers with quantities.

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And worksheets can be turned into matching games to count up to 10.

Turn this simple rainbow worksheet to a craft, Cutting, gluing, and coloring help improve hand-eye coordination and dexterity. I added ribbons of each color of the rainbow and used it as a classroom decoration.

Another example of a worksheet turned into a crown!

·       Worksheets give you the chance to review other units such as emotions. You can transform the worksheet into a mobile or make a file folder game.

Another emotion trio worksheets to sort the weather and emotions pictures.

·       Worksheets are supposed to be completed in a short period of time and in a fun way. Students can listen as you dictate the facial features or they invent them and then show the class their creation.

·       Students can put their creativity into each worksheet. They can play matching weather symbols from one worksheet to another.

·       A simple coloring worksheet is great to slow down the class if they are very excited after a game. There is a worksheet to identify size with the weather items. Print the worksheet for your students to express their preference on weather. 

·       Weather and clothes Worksheets that involve drawing help with visual analysis and concentrate on what is missing or needs to complete, in this case is to complete the corresponding clothes.

Worksheets are widely used in the English Class for even more practice beyond the activity book. This is a cut and paste activity.

·              Challenge your students to review old concepts. It is a good practice to review previous units such as shapes. These are weather words in shape form.

·       Use the Weather unit cutouts along with the preschool worksheets. Select the worksheet and place the corresponding cutouts face down on the table. A student picks one and says what it is: a yellow raindrop. The group finds the yellow raindrop on the worksheet and traces the word and colors that raindrop.

There are several printables games for the Weather Unit. Check the blog post to see the games. 

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Weather Unit Cutouts Activities for English Language Learners

 The Weather Unit cutouts are not very common to use between English Teachers, but I have seen more teachers use them on Instagram and with great activities. Here are some of mine that you do with my resource or with your own. Cutouts for are hands-on activities, a different kind of visual to add to the lesson plan. The size is perfect for the small hands and for online teaching as well.

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The students can work in small groups with a set of cutouts if they need extra reinforcement.

 This is a fun, hands-on ways for students to reinforce learning. Print the window template onto the hardest cardboard you can and add a craft stick to turn into a puppet. Put the window against any flashcard and ask questions.

Teacher: What’s the weather like?
Students: It’s rainy!

Make your own window!

     Review the emotions of each weather symbol. This is and interactive way to act out weather words and strengthen comprehension

I wrote a phrase on a cardboard word strip for the students to match to each cutout. Students will understand the face language for each feeling.

Teacher: How does the sun feel?

Students: happy!

My version.

     

Don’t let students forget previous concepts or vocabulary. Review for the retention of knowledge. Have the students place the numbers in order on the wall or floor. Your students or you can write the number word on a post it and have them match to each cutout. Each number can be covered with contact paper so students can write over the number and draw the amount of snowflakes on each one.

Watch!

     

The Weather flashcards can be used to match with the cutouts. Here is my example with number five and the five snowflakes cutouts. Use Howm many? for quantity recognition.

Teacher: How many snowflakes are there?

Students: five!

   Save prep time with ready-to-use material and print the weather headers to for the students to match the cutouts as they connect to the weather symbols. This kind of activity helps retain the new vocabulary.

Weather Words puzzles strips will give your students a brain booster. Students can use the word strips from the cutouts above to help recognize the letters for each word. Fine motor development and hands-on activity will be the added benefit of this kind of game.

  Weather Unit Puzzle. Use the cutouts to make puzzles. Place them onto a set of craft sticks. Use white glue to cover the entire cutouts as in decoupage. Separate the craft sticks and have the students turn the craft sticks patiently to complete a weather symbol.

    Clothes and the weather. Students can describe the weather condition and what someone is wearing.Place the weather header cards on different cardboards mats. Have the students sort the weather clothes cutouts according to the weather.

Take a look to make weather vocabulary easy to remember and use daily.

    Sorting is a skill that should be covered in the English class as students learn how to classify the Weather unit cutouts into any category. I sorted them into colors. I made a grid using duct tape onto a big cardboard. Distinguishing colors is another visual discrimination skill to develop with your students.

Prepare your grid!

How do you teach weather in your classroom? Share your favorite activities in the comments!

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Weather Unit Small cards for teaching Kindergarten EFL

The small cards are a good addition to your Weather Unit teaching materials. They are good for ELA teachers that work with small groups  or online teaching several ESL children . These are picture and word small cards. I make them with colorful clipart for your young learners. Following are several games to play in class or for your students to work on their own.

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Print the small cards that would suit your needs. Use them for listening activities in small groups such as listen, point and say. Take a look.

      

     The Weather Number cards for counting the numbers that are with the snowflakes. Students can also identify the plural of the sunrays.

Ask questions:

Teacher: What number is this?

Student: ten.

Teacher: How many sun rays are there?

Student: ten.

·       The small cards make for individual work. Students can describe the weather conditions. Have your students write the words using magazines letters or  draw the weather symbol.

 Ask questions: What's the weather like?
Students: It's windy!

Lots of more vocabulary to review here: snowflake,sun,raindrop,rain.

     Or simply cut the word from each small card and have the students match them all. If your students are older, cut each letter from the words and have them write each word.

·       Make a die! I glued the small cards onto a box and created a die to practice the emotions words related to the weather symbols. Students take turns to throw the die and mimic the emotion as they say it.

Make your own die!

                            

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Weather Unit Flashcards for Teaching Kindergarten English Language Learners

Here is number 19, the Weather Unit for the Series Holistic for ESL Kindergarten Teaching Resources. Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Weather-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-19-7255772

Flashcards can catch your student’s attention.This set includes Weather Words: sun, snowflake,snow,wind,cloud, hot, cold,rainy, snowy,sunny,cloudy,windy.

     Introduce the Weather Flashcards and have the students mime each weather flashcard. Students can describe the elements of nature such as cold or hot by miming the weather.

Teacher: It’s hot. (wipe your forehead as in a hot weather) Students can repeat the action and say the phrase.

Continue with the cold flashcard as you imitate shivering. Rain (the snowflake is similar) can be wiggling the fingers on top their heads. Sun is putting your hands on your brows as you can’t see. Wind is blowing and making the wind noise. Lightning is a stuck pose. The rainbow and the cloud can be done by drawing with their finger the symbol.

Introduce the weather with the sunny, rainy,snowy,windy flashcards.

Ask: How's the weather?

Students: It's sunny!

   Lots of weather flashcards in each color for the students to sort by color. Make the activity playful as you do on the floor, or a table, maybe the on the board.

After the sorting is done, say a weather and students find a card with the symbol.

Teacher: It's raining.

·       Review the emotions by sorting all the weather flashcards. Repetition of known words along with new vocabulary can be done easily with the flashcards. Do lip reading with your students as you mouth the phrase happy sun and have your students lip read the word and point to the corresponding flashcard.

·      Use the flashcards to describe the weather and the clothing. Students can sort the people flashcards into the hot and the cold weather according to the clothes that they wearing (hat,sweater,gloves, dress,swimsuit) using the hot and cold thermometers flashcards.
Teacher: What is the weather like?
Students: Today is cold.

Sort the people flashcards into the weather they might be in according to how they are dressed. Discuss about wearing the correct clothes for each weather.

Teacher: Look! rain! It's a rainy day. What are they wearing?

Students: a raincoat! boots!

Teacher: What do they have?

Students: an umbrella!

·       A set of numbers flashcards to sort on the board will make a good review. Have the students count the raindrops on each flashcard.

Teacher: Let's count the raindrops.

For extra practice, place the flashcards into a clear sheet protector and with dry erase markers have students count the number of raindrops on each cloud and write the number. It can be done with any of the weather flashcards.

Teacher: How many sunrays are there?

Students: seven!

·       Captivate students with these shapes weather flashcards. The sorting will stimulate thinking as they improve fine motor skills as they pick them and place them properly.

·       Use the flashcards for writing practice. Give students letters and have them make the word. Tracing the word with their fingers is also a way to practice writing as they pronounce each word.

Weather Unit Commands flashcards. Use them to review simple classroom instruction.

Teacher: Stand like the sun! Walk like the sun!

If you are teaching in a Bilingual classroom setting, here are the  flashcards in Spanish.

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