Teach Common Core Standards with confidence!
The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. The lessons (games or activities) included are scripted. They are written in a format that can be easily taught by the teacher or readily handed off to a parent volunteer or a classroom aide with complete confidence that objectives of the lesson will be reached.
Shared Reading Lessons:
Clouds: Using The Books, Little Cloud by Eric Carle and It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw
Rain, Rain Go Away: Sorting Short & Long Aa Vowel Sounds
Oh What Will I Wear: Word Substitution
Scripted Literacy Lessons:
Tomorrow’s Weather: Decoding Words
Splashing Puddles: Sight Words
Blizzard: Differentiation of b and d
Raining Cats and Dogs Game: Final Phoneme Substitution
Independent Activities:
Writing Sight Words
Scripted Math Lessons With Independent Options:
Temperature Takeover: Identifying & Comparing Numbers
The Windy Day Mix-up: Building Mental Math Skills
Raindrop Recognition: Subitizing
The Terrible Blizzard: Practice Relating Numbers One to Another.
Weather Toss: Collecting & Interpreting Data
Science
Creating a Weather Science Center
Water Drops: Observing & Exploring Water Properties
Water Flows Down: Observing & Exploring Water Properties
Water Painting: Observing & Exploring Evaporation
Wonderful Water: Observing & Exploring Water Properties
Art Projects
Clouds: Extending Literature
My Weather Book: Creating a Guided Reader
Songs/Fingerplays
Little Drops of Rain
The Weather
Mr. Sun
Rain, Rain Go Away
What Will I Wear Today
Guided Reading Books
Water Changes
Writing
Weather Word Wall
My Favorite Kind of Weather
What I Know About Clouds
