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Weather: Activities for 3-5 Year Olds contains enjoyable activities to help develop children's essential skills. Weather is with us all the time, every minute of every day, all around the world. Weather provides ideas for helping to raise children's awareness of the weather throughout the year, whatever the conditions outside. The practical activities include: Enjoying and responding to weather poems, Creating foggy night pictures, Choosing the right clothes for the weather, Measuring puddles, Making simple weather vanes and Various ways of charting the weather. All the books in the Activities for 3-5 Year Olds series contain tried-and-tested activities, linked to the six key areas of learning. They are an invaluable resource of fun, easy-to-use ideas for all early years settings, from preschools and nurseries to reception classes and day nurseries.

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Publié par	Andrews UK
Date de parution	14 novembre 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780857475435
Langue	English

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WEATHER
Activities for 3-5 year olds
Caroline Quin and Sue Pearce

Publisher Information
Originally published by Brilliant Publications,
Unit 10, Sparrow Hall Farm, Edlesborough, Bedfordshire, LU6 2ES
website: www.brilliantpublications.co.uk
General information enquiries:
Tel: 01525 222292
The name Brilliant Publications and the logo are registered trademarks.
Digital version converted and published by
Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com
Written by Caroline Quin and Sue Pearce
Illustrated by Natalie Bould
The authors and publishers are grateful to Macmillan for giving them permission to reprint Thomas Hardy’s poem on page 6 (originally printed in The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy, edited by James Gibson).
© Caroline Quin and Sue Pearce
The Publisher accepts no responsibility for accidents arising from the activities described in this book.
The right of Caroline Quin and Sue Pearce to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
First published 1998. Reprinted 2010. Digital version published in 2011.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior consent of the copyright owner. Applications for the copyright owners’ written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publisher.

Introduction
Weather is with us all the time, every minute of every day, all around the world. The weather ‘does its own thing’, and no one has any control over it.
The weather is determined by the constant motion of the air in the earth’s atmosphere, thus creating ever-changing weather patterns. The constant movement of air between warm and cold areas creates all our weather, which includes conditions such as fog, rain, snow, ice, wind, thunder, etc.
Because the weather is so unpredictable, it is not possible to cover the subject in quite the same way as other topics or themes. There are indeed a certain number of activities that can be carried out during a focused period on ‘the weather’, but generally observing and raising children’s awareness of the weather is an on-going activity. It is very important that people who work within a preschool setting are flexible enough to take advantage of weather changes as and when they happen by drawing the children’s attention to what could be, at that time, extreme or unusual weather changes and conditions.
The activities are organized to work within the framework of QCA’s Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage and take into account the child’s developing intellectual, social and physical skills, focusing upon ideas that will encourage the growth of a positive self-image and a positive attitude to those around him.
Try to adopt a ‘play’ approach as much as possible, and be flexible. Whatever the focus of any activity, the child will be learning all kinds of things from it and much will depend on our starting point. Always start from what the children already know, and their interests. You should be able to adapt all the activities in this book to work with either individual children or a small group, without too much problem.
The book uses materials which are likely to be readily available within your class or group’s location, or which can be easily gathered or collected from the children’s families or carers. Parents should always be advised to bring their child into the preschool with suitable outdoor clothing, so that when it snows, or hails, or is very windy, the children can actually experience these conditions and the weather is not just something they look at from indoors.

Weather Words
What children should learn
Language and literacy - to use words relating to the weather.
What you need
A dictionary.
Activity
Ask the children what words they use to describe the weather. Simple words come easily, like blue sky, rain and sun. Distinguish between breeze, light wind and gale. What about drizzle, rain, and ‘raining cats and dogs’? What is the difference between mist and fog, and what about the old-fashioned ‘pea-soupers’ that we no longer get since the passing of the Clean Air Act? Show the children how you can look up the meanings of words in the dictionary. What about fine but cloudy? It does not always have to be sunny to be fine.
Extension
Other countries have more extremes of weather than we do in the British Isles. Use words like monsoon, typhoon, tornado and describe what they mean.
Talk about
Don’t be afraid to introduce ‘hard words’ to the children. Children are fascinated by words and like to play with them and roll their tongues round them. For example, the weather forecasters on the radio and TV are called meteorologists and the science of forecasting the weather is called meteorology. Clouds have different names, like cumulus and cirrus.

Weather Poems
What children should learn
Language and literacy - to listen and respond to verses about the weather
What you need
Lots of weather verses and songs.
Activity
Recite Thomas Hardy’s poem to and with the children. Talk about the meanings of the words in the poems (don’t labour it, allow the children to enjoy the verse). What are the meanings of: ‘betumble’, ‘chestnut spikes’, ‘bills his best’, ‘sprig-muslin drest’, etc?
Extension
Find more weather rhymes, for example: I Hear Thunder , Incy Wincy Spider , Dr Foster , The North Wind Doth Blow , etc.
Talk about