How's the Weather?

Description of Activity: The student will identify and label types of weather; describe and make comments about the weather;
request attention, assistance and items; use phrases to perform a variety of communicative functions

Materials:
Enlarged overlay and icons
Pictures or videos of different types of weather
Seeds or plants
Flower pots
Soil
Potting tools
Water

Sampling of books on weather:
All-Weather Friends by Udo Weigelt
Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
The Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane by Joanna Cole
Clifford and the Big Storm by Norman Bridwell
The Cloud Book by Tomie De Paola
Rain by Manya Stojic
Gilberto and the Wind by Marie Hall Ets
Flash, Crash, Rumble, & Roll by Franklyn Mansfield Branley
Down Comes the Rain (Let'S-Read-And-Find-Out Science. Stage 2) by James Graham Hale
Sunshine Makes the Seasons (Let's Read and Find Out Science Series) by Franklyn Mansfield Branley
What Will the Weather Be? (Let'S-Read-And-Find-Out Science Book) by Lynda Dewitt, Carolyn Croll

Objective: : The student will communicate with others independently and effectively.

Target Vocabulary:
Adjectives: more, sunny, cloudy, rainy, foggy, windy, snowy, cold, warm, hot
Interjections: awesome, ha-ha-ha, please, thank you, oops
Nouns, weather, rainbow, summer, autumn, winter, spring, sun, cloud, fog, rain, snow, water, hurricane, tornado
Pronouns: I, you, he, she, it, me, my your
Verbs: want, need, like, do turn, help, stop is
Single hits: yes, no, not, a, the, to

Sample Words and Phrases:
I am round.
I am very colorful.
I float in the air.
People sell me at a circus.
I like birthday parties.
I make a very loud noise when it pop.
What am I?

Source: Darci L. Truax, M.S., CCC/SLP
Age: Preschool, early elementary, late elementary
Device: Vanguard, Vantage, Pathfinder

For additional information: Prentke-Romich, Inc.

Permission granted: 2-19-03

Special Education Services Plano Independent School District

How's the Weather?

Special Education Services
Plano Independent School District