1. Year 1: Extreme Weather – Teaching
English texts/video stimulus:
Rosie’s Hat – Julia Donaldson
Feel the wind – Arthur Dorros
Hurricane – David Wiesner
What will the weather be? - Lynda DeWitt
Hide and seek fog – Alvin Tresselt
Come on rain! Karen Hesse
Rain – Peter Spiers
Cloudette – Tom Lichtenheld
Kipper’s book of weather – Mick Inkpen
Elmer’s weather – David McKee
English Writing Opportunities:
Weather based poetry – writing and reciting.
Weather based stories – reading and writing our own.
Weather reports.
Social, Moral, Spiritual and cultural links:
Links to Secrets of Success
Art and Design:
Cloud formations.
Colour mixing – primary and secondary colours.
Mixed media and collage creations.
Design and Technology:
Creating a rain gauge
Creating weather charts
Weather instruments.
Science:
Seasonal changes – learning months of the years and identifying seasons linked to them.
Countries that have the same seasons as us and those that are different.
Southern hemisphere countries and how they have the opposite season to us.
Weather diaries – starting point/introduction to.
Year 1: Extreme Weather – Teaching
Mathematics:
Creating block charts, bar charts, pictograms and tally charts based on weather.
Looking at temperatures and comparing them to find the difference.
Computing:
Using Ipod’s to take images of the weather and then creating a collage of our own weather.
Famous People:
Visits:
Geography:
Identifying continents and oceans of the world.
Identifying the Equator and its affects on the countries near to it.
Identifying and learning about the Artic Circle and Antarctica
Identifying weather in tropical, temperate and cold climates.
History:
The history of meteorology.
How weather has affected history.
Music:
PE: