Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Understand how the weather they have observed outside is typical (or not) of the weather for the season.
• Record their weather observations in the classroom and discuss the changes (Yr1).
• Listen to Vivaldi's Four Seasons and create a collage of the current season.
• Take the temperature outside in the morning and again in the afternoon and discuss how to do this accurately (Yr2).

Activities

1. Learn about the weather for the season and consider if the weather they are expecting is typical.
2. Understand more about the different seasons of the year, including the current season.
3. Consider the different elements of current season and represent in a group collage.

Investigation - pattern seeking
Understand how the weather they have observed outside is typical (or not) of the weather for the season. Listen to Vivaldi's Four Seasons and create collage of the current season.
Year 1 - Record weather observations in the classroom and discuss the changes.
Year 2 - Take the temperature outside in the morning and afternoon and discuss how to do this accurately.

Vocabulary
Rain, snow, storm, thunder, lightning, warm, cold, forecast, summer, autumn, winter, spring, seasons