Weather watching

Ages 3 to 5 Read and do together · about 10 minutes

Read together

Look out of the window. Is it sunny? Cloudy? Rainy?

Wind is air that moves. Rain falls from clouds.

Do it

1. Make a weather chart with pictures: sun, cloud, rain, wind, snow.
2. Each morning, look outside and tick the weather. Feel the air: warm or cool?
3. Hold a ribbon or tissue outside and see how it moves in the wind.
4. After a week, count which weather came most often.

Talk about it

• What is the weather today?
• What do we wear on a rainy day?

For the grown-up

Clouds are made of tiny drops of water or ice. Rain falls when the drops grow big enough. Wind is moving air. Tracking the weather is a child's first set of data.

Mark as done

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Where this comes from

• NGSS Lead States, Next Generation Science Standards: For States, By States (National Academies Press, 2013), performance expectation K-ESS2-1 (patterns of local weather)
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service, JetStream Online School for Weather

Written with AI assistance and checked against the sources listed. Please read it before sharing it with a child.