We just finished our water cycle/weather theme unit that we've incorporated into our classrooms and we wanted to share a few thunder and lightning activities that we did last week with our first graders.
Click {HERE} for a great resource that has "kid friendly" info about thunder and lightning.
Here's a great non fiction book. There is quite a bit of information, so we read bits and pieces to our first graders.
Since we've been talking a lot about author's purpose, we discussed with our kids that the author wrote the above book to inform.
We also read the book below and talked about how the author wrote this book to entertain.
After reading and discussing thunder and lightning we showed our students pictures of lightning Click the picture below if you would like a PDF of lightning pics!
Just in case some of our students hadn't heard thunder, and to remind them of the sound it makes, we downloaded thunder sounds and saved them to our laptops to listen to after we displayed the lightning pictures.
Finally after watching and listening to thunder and lightning, we made lists on our whiteboards of adjectives that describe thunder and lightning. Then our first graders filled out the worksheet below by writing an adjective in each box that describes thunder and/or lightning. Just click the worksheet below if you'd like a copy!
We ended the week discussing the different types of weather that we've learned about and our first graders completed the writing below. They wrote what type of weather they liked and why it was their favorite. Example, "I like sunny weather because I can play outside with my friends." Just click the worksheet below if you'd like a copy!
We've also added our newest addition to our TpT store. It's a new weather themed math and literacy game pack that includes a nonfiction printable weather book too!
Included in this game pack are:
*48 addition equation cards (double digits 10-20 plus a single digit number)
*48 subtraction equation cards (minuends 10-20 minus a single digit number)
*24 telling time (hour and half hour) cards
*24 counting coins (pennies, nickels, & dimes) cards
*36 spring phrase cards
*198 sight word cards.
*Weather themed special cards are included as well!
If you'd like to check out our Weather Themed Math and Literacy Game Pack, just click the picture below!
Have a great week!
This is the second time I've read on teaching blogs about some students not having heard thunder - I didn't realise it was not as common as it is in Australia. Students are more likely to come to school scared of thunder and I've had more than one cry during storms at school. Personally, I love watching the lightning and listening to the thunder and rain. Your new pack looks great!
ReplyDeleteKylie
Down Under Teacher