Teaching about the weather in your homeschool can make for some pretty fun and cool lessons. That’s why I wanted to do a quick roundup of weather printables and resources for kids. From making weather instruments to learning about the different types of weather, there’s a lot you can do with this topic.

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Do you have a preschooler that talks about the weather a lot? If they do, you might be inclined to help them learn more about the weather and how it relates to them. You don’t need fancy materials or a paid app to help teach preschoolers about the weather. In fact, there are some fun ways to teach weather to preschoolers in a very natural way! 

7 Ideas to Teach Weather to Preschoolers

You may think that preschoolers are too little understand weather, but they can learn a lot whne given the right resources. Including your young learners in your homeschool days is easy when you have a plan. Creating a weather unit study is easy with these ideas.

Start a Weather Predictor Chart 

With a few pieces of construction paper, you can help your child learn how to predict the weather. Of course, weather can be super unpredictable, but that is the fun part about working with your preschooler and teaching them about the weather. Your child gets to decide what they think the weather will be this week and that’s really cool. 

This is a great way to get your children actively involved with learning about weather in a natural way because they have to pay attention to the weather each day to be able to compare it to their predictions!

Explore All Weather Types

It’s easy to look at the weather from inside. What if you actually went out and explored the weather? This is such a cool way to teach preschoolers about the weather. They get to use all five of their senses to actively explore all kinds of weather!

It doesn’t matter if it’s snow, rain, sun, cloudy, windy, hot, or cold, – preschoolers will love experiencing what they see, hear, feel, think, and taste.

Weather Journal

Children are never too young to draw. While it may be hard to decipher what they are drawing, this is such a natural way to teach preschoolers about the weather. A weather journal is simply a bunch of pieces of paper stapled together.

Each day, your toddler records the weather that they saw or experienced. Don’t try and correct them. You can guide them, but for the most part, this should be an activity that they do on their own. It’s so much fun to see what they record. 

Listening for Sounds

Weather can tell us a lot. If you don’t have a chance to go outside and explore the weather, you can always listen. If it is windy out or there is a thunderstorm, these are two very good ways to teach weather to preschoolers. You can always throw in fun facts about thunder, lightning, and wind.

Create a Weather Viewing Space

Another fun and natural way to teach your preschooler about the weather is to create a weather viewing space. This is where your preschooler can clearly look outside and see what is going on with the weather.

This station is where your preschooler will go every single day to report to you the weather. Creating a special space to do a specific task can make learning more interesting!

And don’t worry, when they’re excited about what they’re learning they won’t forget the task ahead of them. They will remind you every single day to visit that spot to complete their task! 

Describe the Weather to Your Preschooler

As much as some preschoolers are visual, some need to hear you talk about the weather., they need to hear you describe it to them. Using descriptive words is great for introducing subject-oriented vocabulary. So, when we make teaching the weather relatable and understandable, it will be more exciting! 

If you need some ideas, think about what a sunny day may look like, feel like, or do? What does a rainy day look like, feel like, or do? Make sure you are talking to your preschooler and describing the weather to them. If you need to, pull out the dictionary and a good thesaurus!

Listen to Songs About Weather

Incorporating music is a great way to teach weather to preschoolers! A simple Google or YouTube search will bring up quite a few super creative songs that sing about the weather. This is a fun one about the Water Cycle! When you’re on a walk or doing an activity, turn on some music about the weather. 

In no time, your preschooler will start singing about the weather and it’ll be the cutest thing ever! If your toddler or early-learning student is really into the song activities, try and encourage them to come up with a few songs by themselves!

Ideas for Teaching About the Weather

Talk about the weather each day of the week (teaches observation skills), incorporate a weather song, and practice weather vocabulary by reading books about weather. It also helps to use a calendar board along with a weather icon or weather symbol for each day. Overall, there are a variety of skills that can be fostered by using fun activities that teach about the weather.

Create an interactive notebook

These are growing increasingly popular in the homeschooling community. using a variety of printable activities and your kids’ own drawings, they will begin to create a resource they can look back over time and time again. A few things to include in their interactive notebooks are:

• weather words and definitions
• weather types
• weather conditions
• natural disasters caused by weather
• seasonal weather examples
• types of clouds

Include fun weather activities

This is where things get fun and hands-on, which most kids thoroughly enjoy. There are lots of weather-related science experiments that older and younger students alike will enjoy doing. Here are a few ideas to consider:

• Make a cloud in a jar.
• Create the water cycle in a bag.
• Design a weather wheel.
• Make condensation.
• Put together a sensory bin with water beads, cotton balls, and other weather-like objects.

Play weather games

Who doesn’t love a good game or two? These ideas are sure to keep your kids engaged while learning all about the weather:

• Weather memory game (using flashcards).
• Play a few rounds of weather charades.
• Meteorologist role play (they can even build a makeshift weather station).
• Print off a weather word search.
• Play weather bingo.
• Make up a weather matching game.

Weather Printables and Resources for Kids

I have several weather printables and resources for kids that you can download and start using in your homeschool. These can easily be incorporated with your other lessons or used by themselves as independent work.

Rainbows Mini Unit Study

Rainbows are so magical. How they appear seemingly out of nowhere, they envoke a sense of childlike wonder and awe. Our rainbows mini unit study includes fun activities and ideas for studying rainbows.

Singing in the Rain Movie/Musical Study

Whether you love musicals, old movies or just Singing in the Rain, this movie study is a fun addition to your studies. It is a classic movie musical with great humor, wonderful music and some of the best dancing you’ll see.

Rainy Day Poetry Study and Memorization Pack

Based on the poem “The Rainy Day” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, this printable study pack teaches students about rhyme schemes, metaphors, and vocabulary. Students will also be encouraged to work on memorization of the poem with the cue cards they can cut apart.

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