The Weather and the Four Seasons Books and Activities

Weather is all around us! Fall and spring are great times to talk with your children about the weather and for your children to experience the changes that happen in the weather as it cools down or warms up. In the fall, talk about how the weather is getting cooler and that the leaves are changing color and the animals are preparing for winter. Discuss that in the spring the weather is warming up and that many animals are having their babies and new plants are beginning to grow.

Four Seasons Books:

Four Seasons Make a Year	Snowmen All Year	Tree For All Seasons
Sunshine Makes the Seasons	The Reasons for Seasons	The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree

Weather and the Four Seasons Preschool and Kindergarten Activities 

We talk about the four seasons that make up a year and discuss and learn about the different kinds of weather we can experience in each season. To jumpstart our discussion about the seasons, we create a chart like the one below and display the four seasons cards. This is great way to find out what children already know about the four seasons and also to provide some background knowledge.

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Four Seasons Rhyme:

The Four Seasons
Original Author Unknown

Spring is showery, flowery, bowery,
Summer is hoppy, croppy, poppy.
Autumn is slippy, drippy, nippy,
Winter is breezy, sneezy, freezy.

Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter Sorting Game and Lesson

Children sort and match activities, clothing, and trees in different stages to the correct season. 

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The Four Seasons Rhyme and Activity

Recite the rhyme and let children guess which season it is ouside the window.

I looked outside my window, what did I see?
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I looked outside my window, and what did I see? 

A cherry tree full of blossoms, looking at me. (spring)

I looked outside my window, and what did I see?
A beautiful yellow daffodil, looking at me. (spring)

I looked outside my window, and what did I see?
A tree growing apricots, looking at me. (summer)

I looked outside my window, and what did I see?
Children swimming in the pool, looking at me. (summer)

I looked outside my window, and what did I see?
A tree with colorful leaves, looking at me. (fall)

I looked outside my window, and what did I see?
Children picking up pumpkins, looking at me. (fall)

I looked outside my window, and what did I see?
A tree with no leaves, looking at me. (winter)

I looked outside my window, and what did I see?
Children wearing gloves and hats, looking at me. (winter)

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Featured: Outside My Window Craftivity from lessonplandiva.com

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My Favorite Season Craftivity

In this craftivity, children express their favorite season by creating an apple tree that represents that season, for example, in the fall their apple tree would have apples. 

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Learn about the life cycle of an apple.

Children cut out and glue Apple Sequence Cards onto a strip of paper to show the life cycle of an apple.

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The Fours Seasons Game: Going Around the Sun

Children will learn that Earth takes one year to rotate around the sun and that during that time, we experience different types of weather and temperatures. To reinforce this concept, children will play a board game in which they choose and match cards to the correct seasons as they travel around the sun.

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Weather Language Arts Activity

In this activity, children describe what kind of clothing they would wear during different kinds of weather.

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Weather Matching and Sorting Folder Game

Children will practice their visual discrimination skills by viewing and describing weather cards and then sorting them according to their similarities and differences.

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