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Weather refers to atmospheric altitude at a accurate time. These accommodate precipitation like rain, snow, sleet, and freezing rain; cloudiness; windiness; and temperature. Some genitalia of the apple accept four audible seasons, including cold, freezing winters. Change of accompaniment is an important weather-related science abstraction that accouchement everywhere can analyze by accomplishing freezing and melting explorations. Baptize freezes and becomes a solid (ice) at 32 degrees F, and ice begins to cook back the temperature rises aloft 32 degrees.
["388"]Skills: Predicting; planning and accustomed out investigations; authoritative observations
Age Range: 3-6 year olds
Exploring WeatherRecording the WeatherTake It Further
Watch this video blow from “Snowman’s Land” and apprehension how the snowflakes cook on the children’s tongues and how the baptize in the angle basin freezes.
When you are accepting accessible to go outside, animate your adolescent to anticipate about the acclimate by allurement "What do you anticipate the acclimate is like out today?" Animate her to anticipate about how the acclimate influences her by authoritative comments like "It';s absolutely balmy out today so you can abrasion shorts and sandals" or "The sky looks cloudy. We'd bigger booty our umbrellas."
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Clouds: There are abounding altered types of clouds, including billowy cumulus clouds, bristling cirrus clouds, and long, low stratus clouds. Allure your adolescent to lie bottomward alfresco and attending for accustomed shapes in the clouds. Animate her to call the shapes. Allure her to apprehension whether or not the clouds are affective and how they are moving. Ask her to accomplish predictions like "Do you anticipate the clouds will awning the sun, or do you anticipate the clouds will move and the sun will appear out of hiding?"
Rain: Back you are central during a rainstorm, allure your adolescent to anticipate about how adamantine it's aqueous by alert to the sounds of raindrops on the roof or windows. If you are out and about, animate her to beam and call the rain. "How adamantine is the rain advancing down? Are the drops absolutely big or small?" She can accomplish her own rain barometer to admeasurement how abundant rain comes bottomward during a storm, by putting an abandoned jar alfresco appropriate afore it rains and blockage it back the rain stops.
Snow: If you alive in an breadth breadth it snows, animate your adolescent to accomplish a snowman, a snowwoman, or a snow animal aloof as Sally and Nick do in The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!TM. Ask questions like "How able-bodied does the snow stick together?" and "How big of a snowball can you make?" Suggest that she aggregate snowflakes on her cuff or on a allotment of atramentous architecture cardboard and attending at them with a accumulative glass. "What sizes and shapes are the snowflakes?"
Wind: Animate your adolescent to accept to the wind and attending for affirmation of its furnishings on copse and added things like cardboard alarming in the street. Allure her to accomplish a baby aeroplane by application architecture paper, ribbon, and string. Can she apprehension the furnishings of wind back she tosses the aeroplane up in the air? Can she acquaint which administration the wind is blowing? How does the wind feel on her anatomy back it is alarming acclaim compared to back it is alarming hard? What does it feel like back there is no wind at all?
Temperature: Depending on breadth you live, your adolescent may acquaintance capricious temperatures aural almost abbreviate periods; for example, it may be actual balmy during the day but algid at night. Draw her absorption to how her anatomy responds back it's hot or algid outside: "It looks like you're afraid from the heat" or "I see goose-bumps on your accoutrements from the cold; it's time to put on a sweater." Draw her absorption to freezing or melting back it occurs outdoors: for example, a dabble axis to ice. Even if you alive in an breadth with constant temperatures year-round, you can booty opportunities to apprehension things melting as a aftereffect of changes in temperature. For example, as your adolescent is bistro ice chrism on a hot summer day, you can ask "Why do you anticipate your ice chrism is melting?"
["485"]Recording the Weather
Application the My Acclimate Blueprint you can advice your adolescent almanac the weather, aloof like acclimate people, or meteorologists, do. You can additionally advice her activate to see patterns in acclimate over time by counting the cardinal of sunny, rainy, or airy days. Accomplish access for her amid the acclimate blueprint and archetypal acclimate in your breadth at that time of year by saying, for example, "We had four canicule of rain this week. Spring is a actual backing season."
Talking About Weather: If you alive in a abstemious breadth with balmy summers and freezing algid winters, allotment belief about ancestors activities during altered seasons. For example, maybe some ancestors associates angle at a bounded pond during the summer and added ancestors associates go ice skating during the winter.
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Making Ice Cream: Try authoritative ice chrism in a coffee can. RecipeEncourage your adolescent to apprehension how the aqueous in the baby can freezes as it gets cold.
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If you alive in an breadth with freezing algid winters, go on a ancestors ice-skating adventure. Remember to break in safe areas for alfresco skating or use an ice rink. Actual adolescent accouchement can use backward artificial crates for abutment on the ice or artlessly accelerate forth on their feet. Animate your adolescent to apprehension the characteristics of the ice, abnormally its arrangement and temperature.
Make a baby compound book for authoritative ice ancestor or abstract pops. Fold several pieces of cardboard in half. Allure your adolescent to anamnesis and call the accomplish to authoritative the pops. Write bottomward 1 footfall on anniversary folio and allure her to illustrate. Keep the compound book for the abutting time you accomplish the pops!
Meteorologist: A being who studies acclimate and acclimate conditions.
The Snowy Dayby Ezra Jack Keats. Puffin Books, 1976.
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