Weather
We started our unit on weather today. We began by discussing some words that come to our minds when we think about weather. I created a list on chart paper.
Next, I had each student choose a word to write and illustrate on a raindrop for our Weather Words bulletin board in our classroom.
Next, we thought of some things that we already know about weather and listed them on the sun.
After discussing some things we already know about weather, students wrote on their own page what they already know about weather. This is on the second page of The Weather Book. Click the picture to download.
For the weather book, we will keep adding the third page to our booklets everytime we discuss a new weather topic. For example, when we discuss wind, the students will write something they already know about wind before the lesson. After the lesson, they will write something they learned about wind and draw a corresponding picture.
I will be posting more from our weather unit throughout the week.
This is GREAT!!! We just started our weather unit also!
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Thanks for posting! I've been thinking of how/what I want to do for weather!! This helps a ton!
Love this! We are into our weather unit as well. We are currently working on clouds. Check out my blog for a great rainbow color mixing activity and our cloud book.
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Love the student created word wall! Student created is the way to go. It creates a higher level of buy-in. This is something that I need to do more of.
First Grade Factory
I love the little book. Sooo cute! And I love your little raindrop weather words…so good for increasing vocabulary! Thanks for sharing!
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LOVE it!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the word wall!
Jena
1st Grade with Miss Snowden
Yahoo! Great ideas, thanks for sharing! We just started our weather unit this week 🙂
Your weather unit is great! Thank you. WE start weather next month!
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Using visual aids like the raindrops and the sun to illustrate and convey their understanding is an excellent approach. jumping shell
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What a thoughtful way to kick off a weather unit! Having students brainstorm weather words and then each illustrate a raindrop for the bulletin board is such a creative way to build vocabulary ownership. The Weather Book idea is brilliant too — adding pages as you cover each new topic gives students a real sense of progress. I love the “what we know” sun chart as a way to activate prior knowledge. https://pvzfusion.io
What a fun way to start a weather unit! I love the idea of having students write weather words on raindrops for a bulletin board — it’s such a creative and hands-on activity for young learners. Starting with what they already know is a great approach!
What a cute, hands-on idea for a weather unit bulletin board! I bet the kids love getting to draw and personalize their raindrop words. If you’re looking for fun little themed touches to spruce up your classroom space after setting up your weather display, I recently found the sweetest collection of capybara-themed stationery and decor. There are so many cute little items that fit perfectly in a elementary classroom, and I even got an adorable capybara bag to hold all my lesson planning materials. If you’re a fellow capybara lover like me, you have to check out the whole selection over at the shop—they have everything from plushies to charms to pajamas and gifts, all capybara themed!
Love the weather book idea! How do you handle the what they already know part before the lesson?
Wow, weather units are always a hit! I remember doing a similar activity with raindrops. It might be cool to incorporate music into the weather theme—kids could compose sound patterns for different weather types. A remote music collaboration tool would let students create and share these projects even from home. Great ideas here!
Wow, weather units are always a hit! I remember doing a similar activity with raindrops.
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Having students write what they already know before diving into each new topic is a strong strategy for assessing prior knowledge. For concepts where initial individual recall might be limited, a brief whole-class brainstorming session could help spark more ideas before they put pen to paper.
The weather word raindrops and the move from what children already know to what they learn make this unit feel wonderfully cumulative. I especially like keeping the before-and-after pages in the booklet, because the visible progression gives students something concrete to revisit. That same step-by-step comparison is useful when refining a short frame-by-frame sequence in SpriteFuse: each change can be checked against the previous frame instead of getting lost in the whole animation.
The raindrop vocabulary activity is clever—having kids illustrate their own weather words makes those terms stick better than just listing them. I like how you’re structuring The Weather Book with before-and-after pages for each topic; that reflection piece really helps students notice what they’ve actually learned. I’ve been using this game to organize my own teaching resources lately, and this kind of progressive documentation would fit perfectly there.