Weather Preschool Theme
Usually around this time of year, we are starting to transition from winter to spring, and I think it’s the prefect time to talk a little bit about weather – we tend to get a lot of rain around this time where we live.
| M | T | W | Th | F | |
| Religion | Read a Short Man ‘Zacchaeus’ | Zacchaeus hand print | Word Find Zacchaeus | Zacchaeus coloring sheet | maze |
| Language (2) | Sandpaper K | Cloud letter K* | Letter K Binder | Sunshine letters* | K miniatures |
| Language (4) | Intro L blends & sight word Be | Cloud letter blends* & sight word* | Rainbow write (a couple from each) | Sunshine sounds* practice sight word too | Slip, slide, spin game |
| Math (2) | Sandpaper 15 & count raindrops* | Cloud 15* | Find and count 15 objects then play with them on the scale | Toss 15 beanbags into an umbrella – count as you toss | Count 15 mini marshmallows and use a straw to blow them like the wind |
| Math (4) | Tornado teens – do the worksheet then talk about the concept of more or less | What is the temperature Talk about which is more and less than the other | Weighing weather – see what weighs more and less than each other | Try to toss a bucket of bean bags into an umbrella. When done, count the made bags and missed bags and determine which was more v less | Place a mini marshmallow at the end of a ruler. Use a straw to blow the marshmallow. Then do another one. Which was more v less. Repeat until no longer interested. |
| Art/Sensory | Rain sensory bin* | Draw what you would wear on a rainy, snowy, or sunny day | Make a windchime* | Go outside and jump in puddles! (if you don’t have rain, create ‘puddles’ out of construction paper and place around the floor | Sun craft |
| Science Geography History | Cloud comprehension and Cloud experiment | Wind experiment* | Water cycle & sort worksheets | Types of clouds & Cloud research worksheets + Cottonball Clouds* | Fact v opinion – talk about why fact v opinion is important in science |
Cloud letters/number – shaving cream in a bag and use finger to make letter/number. Could also do the shaving cream on a window or in a sensory bin
Sunshine letters – color or paint a paper plate yellow. Write lower case letters around the perimeter of the plate (letter K for this week a couple times & some other review letters). Write the uppercase equivalent letters on clothes pins. Child then clips the clothespin on the correct corresponding letter.
Sunshine sounds – same as the above, but instead of lower case letters, draw pictures or use stickers of L blend words (ex: block, flag, clock) on the perimeter of the plate. Write Bl, Cl, Pl etc.. On the clothespin and have child match the correct clothespin L blend to picture.
Count raindrops – draw cloud on top of paper, use blue stones to count to 15 then write 15
Types of clouds with cotton balls; cumulus (normal cotton ball), cirrus (very stretched ball), nimbus (a couple bunched slightly stretched with some black marker), stratus (one medium stretch w black)
Rain sensory bin – blue rice, blue sequins and blue gems (raindrops). Add clouds (cotton balls), rainbows (mini erasers or rainbow pom poms), rain (blue glass gems), lightning (yellow foam cut in the shape of lightning bolts), small scoops and rainbow pill jars (from Dollar Tree).
Windchime – Color, paint, sticker or stamp a piece of construction paper with weather symbols or scenes. Then tape it into a tube. Tape strips of streamers to the end. Tie some yarn to the top to be able to make it hang. Hang outside to see the wind blow the streamer.
Wind experiment – Decide if the wind would be able to blow different objects. Leaf, feather, pencil, straw, stick, paper, rock, button, bear, crayon, shell and paperclip
More activities: For 3 or 4 year old, try the letter identification snowball fight