The weather unit

Unit no. 1 Duration: 4 weeks Lesson time: 30 minutes every day

Aims

-  To introduce the names of different time of weather.

- To introduce English lesson as a fun time.

- To introduce the names of different season of the year.

- To introduce numbers: 1-10

Intended outcomes

• -     To be able to recognized the different season.
• -     To be able to know what happened in every season.
• -     To be able to say if outside is: “cloudy, shinny, etc. “
• -     To be able to recognize the colors
• -     To be able to

Vocabulary

Sun                  Storm

Sunny              Stormy       

Cloud                Cold

Cloudy             Hot

Shinny             Rainbow

Rain                 Numbers 1-10

Rainy               Snow

Wind                Snowy

Windy              Umbrella

Summer

Spring

Autumn

Winter

Grammar

- Possessive; your

- Questions; Where’s…?, ¿What’s?

- Commands: point to, shake, stamp, etc.

Everyday language

- Numbers: 1-10

- How many?

- What happened…?

- Hello

- Goodbye

Activities

Total Physical Response: children to do actions, following the teacher’s example to begin with

Games:

- Using flashcards

- Paint, colours, paper pictures…

Songs:

- Beautiful Rainbow Came

- The Weather

- What's the Weather Like Today

- Weather Today

- Colors up in the Rainbow

- Colors of the Rainbow

- Black Clouds

- My Raincoat

- March Wind

- Rain, Rain Go Away, etc.

Stories:

- Rain drop plop

- Weather finger play

The first day activities

The Weather
Time	Aims	Activity	Resources
5 minutes	To practice the routine. To sing the song and respond when we asked them what their name is.	Sing the song “Hello teacher” with the help of a puppet.	Puppet
7 minutes	To understand the vocabulary about weather. To respond to instruction. To recognize the different season and weather.	Tale a story about the weather, and then ask question about the story and about what happened in the story.	A story book “Rain drop, plop”
3 minutes	To learn to coordinate movements actions. To recognize and develop a steady beat. To explore the sounds of the rain.	Sing the song of “Umbrella song”	CD- player
15 minutes	To understand instructions. To recognize what we need when it is a rainy day, when we need an umbrella. To practice the psicomotricity.	After singing the song “Umbrella song”, we going to made a umbrella art.	Droppers, liquid watercolors, shape cut on the silhouette

Hello teacher

# Age #:

The activity is for kids with 3 -4 years old.

# Aims #:

o   To practice the routine.

o   To respond when we asked them what their name is.

o   To learn the song.

# When #:

We are going to sing the song in the circle time, on the first, second and third term, because the kids have to interiorized the song and learn the name of their friends and that is a funny way to say hello.

# Where #:

We sing this song in the classroom.

# Time #:

To sing this song we need 5 minutes.

# Resources- Materials #

To sing this song the teacher need a puppet.

Song:

Hello teacher, Hello teacher.
How are you? How are you?
Very well, thank you.

Very well, thank you.

What about you? What about you?

# Activity #:

The kids are placed in circle, and the teacher told them the story, and after that she put some questions about the story.

 Rain drop plop!

# Age #:

The activity is for kids with 3-4 years old.

# Aims #:

o   To understand the vocabulary about weather.

o   To respond to instruction.

o   To recognize the different season and weather.

# When #:

We are going to say this story on the second term, and we are going to tale it in the circle time, because the kids in that moment are quiet.

# Where #:

We are going to do this activity in the class.

# Time #:

To do this activity we need only 7 minutes.

# Resources- Materials #

For this activity we need the book with the story.

The story:

How many ways can you have fun on a rainy day?  From one little raindrop to ten toes soaking in a warm bubble bath, there are lots of things to see and count until the sun comes out again.  In between, there are silly boots to pull on and puddles to splash in and a rainy backyard just waiting to be explored.  A spirited rhyming text that's ideal for reading unexpected pleasures that a little wet weather can bring to a young child's day.

One little raindrop,

Dark, dark sky.

Two little raindrops,

Clouds go by

Three little raindrops,

Splat, splat, splat!

Four little raindrops

Boots and hat.

Five little raindrops

Shiny red coat

# Activity #:

The kids are placed in circle, and the teacher told them the story, and after that she put some questions about the story.

Umbrella song

# Age #:

The activity is for kids with 3 -4 years old.

# Aims #:

o   To learn to coordinated movements actions.

o   To recognition and developing a steady beat.

o   To explore the sounds of the rain

# When #:

We are going to sing the song after the circle time, on the second term, because they have interiorized the weather, and in that time they already know more vocabulary.

# Where #:

We sing this song in the classroom.

 Time #:

To sing this song we only need 3 minutes.

# Resources- Materials #

To sing this song the teacher need the CD- player, and our body.

The song:

Down come the rain drops SPLASH, SPLASH, SPLASH! (stamp feet on the splashes)

Let’s run for cover, DASH, DASH, DASH!  (run on the spot)

Pitter patter, pitter patter, DRIP, DRIP, DROP! (clap hands in rhythm)

I’m under my umbrella till the raindrops STOP! (put up pretend umbrella)

# Activity #:

The Umbrella Song is perfect for a rainy day, because it explores both the sounds of the rain, and has lively actions as well. Kids love the idea of splashing in puddles in their wellies and are always very keen to put their imaginary umbrellas up over their head.

o   Rain Drops & Umbrellas (Drop, Then Blot)

# Age #:

The activity is for kids with 3- 4 years old.

# Aims #:

o   To learn to coordinated movements actions.

o   To understand instructions.

o   To recognize what we need when it is a rainy day, when we need an umbrella.

o   To practice the psicomotricity.

# When #:

We are playing this game after the circle time, on the second term, because the weather is better and they already know a lot about the weather vocabulary and when they have to use the umbrella.

# Where #:

This game we playing it in the class.

# Time #:

To play this game we need 15 minutes.

# Resources- Materials #

- Towels

-Droppers

- Liquid watercolors

- Glue

- Scissors

# Activity #:

Today we’ll going to sing Rain Drop Plop! and then we’ll going to  make an umbrella art. First we’ll use droppers and liquid watercolors to drop colorful raindrops on our umbrellas (shapes cut on the Silhouette). The watercolors pool on the cardstock, but it creates a great opportunity to blot it up with coffee filters. Later after the filters dried, we cut raindrop shapes out of them for our page.
We’re also saving our paper towels and reusing them for painting projects, then we’ll make a collage or a wall hanging project with their paint soaked paper towels.At the end of the activity we ask each kid to describe their umbrella.