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Kindergarten · Science · Unit 2 of 7

Weather & Seasons

Weather, seasons, day and night

What your child practices

Dressing for the weather, the four seasons in order, day and night, and how plants and animals change with the seasons.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: K.E1U1.3; K.E1U1.4 · observing weather, and how seasonal weather patterns affect plants, animals and people

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. The seasons go spring, summer, fall, winter.
  2. Summer is the warmest. Winter is the coldest.
  3. Dress for the weather: a coat for cold, an umbrella for rain.

Example: It is snowing. What should you wear? Snow means it is cold. A warm coat keeps you warm. Answer: a warm coat

Weather & Seasons in Arizona

In the Arizona Academic Standards, this is unit 2 of 7 in Kindergarten Science, after What Living Things Need and before Stormy Weather.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Arizona Department of Education

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Put the seasons in order. Start with spring.

    • ❄️winter
    • 🍂fall
    • 🌷spring
    • ☀️summer

  2. Question 2

    In which season do many flowers start to grow?

    • 🍂fall
    • 🌷spring
    • ❄️winter

  3. Question 3

    It is hot and sunny. What should you wear?

    ☀️
    • 🧤mittens
    • 🧣scarf
    • 👒sun hat

  4. Question 4

    It is raining. What can keep you dry?

    🌧️
    • ☂️umbrella
    • 🕶️sunglasses
    • 🩴sandals

  5. Question 5

    In winter, the days are…

    ❄️
    • 🌙short, with long nights
    • ☀️long, with short nights

  6. Question 6

    What lights up the sky in the daytime?

    • 🌙the moon
    • ☀️the sun
    • 🌈a rainbow

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