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Kindergarten · Science · Unit 3 of 8

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.

Maine Learning Results learning standard: K-ESS2-1 · observing local weather and describing its patterns over time

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 Maine

In the Maine Learning Results, this is unit 3 of 8 in Kindergarten Science, after Push & Pull and before Care for Our Earth.

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: Maine 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
    • 🌷spring
    • ☀️summer
    • 🍂fall

  2. Question 2

    It is hot and sunny. What should you wear?

    ☀️
    • 👒sun hat
    • 🧣scarf
    • 🧤mittens

  3. Question 3

    What do many birds do when it gets cold?

    🍂
    • 🐻grow thick fur
    • 🐦fly to warmer places
    • 🕳️dig a hole

  4. Question 4

    What lights up the sky in the daytime?

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

  5. Question 5

    In winter, the days are…

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

  6. Question 6

    Hot day or cold day? Put each one in its basket.

    Sort into: ☀️ hot day · ❄️ cold day

    • 🩴sandals
    • 🧤mittens
    • 🩳shorts
    • 🧣scarf
    • 🩱swimsuit
    • 🧥winter coat

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