1. Introducing
What’s the Weather?

2. Make these sounds!
Wind
Thunder
Rain

3. What is the weather typically like at this time of year?
What different types of weather are there?

4. Activate Prior Knowledge
1. What is weather?
2. What is air?
3. What is wind?
4. What are the names of the four seasons?
5. What type of weather do you have in spring?
6. What type of weather do you have in summer?
7. What type of weather do you have in winter?
8. What type of weather do you have in fall?

5. I Call It Sky
By Will C. Howell
Children celebrate weather across the seasons. As they run through spring breezes, fly kites on warm summer days, disappear into a fall fog, and taste snowflakes in winter, the children show how weather works and how it affects our lives.
Focus Questions What kinds of weather are there? What kind of weather do you enjoy?
Stop and Read

6. Discussion What did you learn about air and wind in this story?
What are our five senses?
In this story, how did the air differ in each season?
Discussion
Think about fall. What do you taste? What do you see?
Think about summer. What can you smell in the summer?
Think about spring. What do you hear?
Think about winter. What do you feel?
How are the seasons in the story like our seasons? How are they different?

7. Concept / Question Board
Post illustrations of the seasons described in the story. Write a sentence about your illustration.

8. Set Goals
To understand weather concepts, including what causes different kinds of weather, how weather is measured, and how it affects people’s lives.
To identify and understand parts of a book, including glossaries.
To identify sentences, sentence boundaries, and paragraphs in print
To identify and understand the purpose of different end punctuation marks, quotation marks, and ellipses
To understand and apply rules for capitalization and comma usage

9. River Oaks First Grade Imagine It!