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Looking at Clothes We talked about bodies and why we need clothing. We dressed a teddy bear in clothes for summer and clothes for winter and we talked about the different clothing that is worn during these seasons. We discussed the protective nature of clothing and as an extension we traced human figures onto A3 sized pieces of paper. We then encouraged the children to ceate clothing for the figure using paper strips that we had pre-cut. To finish the picture the children had to draw facial features. |
Clothing Sort A further extension of the Clothing/Weather topic can be a category sort similar to the sheet pictured left. For this activity children were required to sort clothes into a winter group and a summer group. For the picture on the left we used a worksheet from a book and pre cut many clothing pictures from the work book for the children to sort through. For the picture on the right we provided pictures from magazines and catalogues for children to sort into "hot" and "cold" clothing |
Season Clock Divide a paper plate into four even sectors and attach a clock hand using a split pin. Help each child to label each sector and help them to order summer, autumn, winter, spring. Provide shapes for each sector eg flowers for Spring, leaves for Autumn, sun for Summer and raindrops for Winter. Help the children to glue these into the correct sectors. A large one can also be made for classroom use to explain to the children how the seasons change and how these changes are reflected in the weather. As the seasons change the clock hand can be moved to help reinforce this for the children. |
Clothing Hamper Provide a big hamper filled with assorted clothes and have the children sort them into summer and winter clothes. Provide lots of interesting seasonal clothes for children to wear during dress up. For example for winter, funny wooly hats, interesting sweaters, snowshoes, long scarves etc. |
Miss G's Aussie Kindergarten |
Portfolio Activity |
Weather Lesson Ideas |
Other Ideas Create a Weather Book with a different type of weather for each page e.g. windy, hot, rainy, snowy. Use pictures cut from magazines, drawings and words to describe the different activities or experiences that occur with that type of weather e.g. rainy - raindrops, puddles, goosebumps, hot chocolate etc Keep a daily weather chart. You could use a newspaper or the internet to perhaps keep a chart of the predicted weather for the week, and then each day check what the actual weather is. Use a thermometer to measure temperature and record it on a class thermostat. A whiteboard would work well for this idea. |
Season Trees Have your students paint a tree for each of the seasons. Talk about the seasonal changes trees undergo to prepare the students for this activity. These trees were painted by older students on small canvases but younger students could do the same thing on large art paper. Students could also do WEATHER paintings e.g. paint a rainy day, paint a sunny day. In your own classroom create a large SEASON TREE on a display board that changes with the seasons. The students can help you in the creation of each tree. For ideas about season trees, click on any of the season link pages at the bottom of this page. |
This page was last updated on: April 18, 2009
Graphics by Clips Ahoy |
