Weather · Kindergarten
Watch the weather for a month and find the patterns!
Weather changes from day to day. We can count it to find patterns.
Mornings are usually cooler than afternoons.
Standard: K-ESS2-1*. Children use and share observations of local weather to describe patterns over time, such as counting sunny, cloudy, rainy and windy days, or noticing that mornings are usually cooler than afternoons. Counts are whole numbers; temperature is only warmer or cooler.
What your child does: watches the weather change; records each school day for a month on a calendar; counts each kind of weather into a picture graph and compares the columns; reads a thermometer (no numbers) each morning and afternoon for three days and finds the pattern.
Talk about it: "What's the weather today? How do you know?" · "Which weather did we have most?" · "Why might it be warmer in the afternoon?"
Try it for real: keep a weather calendar on the fridge for a month, drawing a sun, cloud, raindrops or wind lines each day, and count them at the end. Put an outdoor thermometer by a window and compare breakfast time with after school.
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