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THE NEWLY PUBLISHED WEATHER SERIES by JEANETTE VUUREN is aligned to CCSS & the AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM and includes the following volumes; - HOW IS THE WEATHER? – INFORMATION (VOLUME 1) PDF
- HOW IS THE WEATHER? – RESOURCES (VOLUME 2) PDF
- WEATHER FORECASTING – INFORMATION (VOLUME 3) PDF
- WEATHER FORECASTING – RESOURCES & PRINTABLES (VOLUME 4) PDF
- WEATHER FORECASTING – MAPS & SYMBOLS (VOLUME 5) PPT
- WEATHER FORECASTING – WALL CHARTS & SUMMARIES (VOLUME 6) PDF
WEATHER FORECASTING – RESOURCES & PRINTABLES (VOLUME 4) by Jeanette Vuuren, includes various differentiated and fun activities to help reinforce the information provided in WEATHER FORECASTING – INFORMATION. It includes differentiated, printable science and language activities such as questions, answer sheets, flash cards, helpful summaries of information, word lists as well as weather report templates & scripts for different levels of ability. The book (PDF) consists of 148 pages and includes the following activities; - WEATHER REPORT TEMPLATES – BASIC, LEVEL 1, LEVEL 2: Trace and complete the weather sentences
- WRITING WEATHER REPORTS – LEVEL 3: 3 sets of sentences and phrases
- WEATHER SCRIPTS – LEVEL 3-5: 11 scripts about different weather conditions, e.g. hot, cold, mild, rainy, stormy, windy, snowy, etc.
- LEVEL 4-5: 6 scripts
- SHORT SENTENCES & WORD LISTS: To report back after each ‘meteorologist’s’ forecast
- CRITERIA FOR; writing & delivering the weather forecast & group work
- WEATHER RELATED ACTIVITIES:
- Sort; pictures under headings, pictures alphabetically, words alphabetically
- Trace, cut & glue pictures and words of the 5 aspects in nature that help predict the weather
- Trace, cut & glue words about weather instruments
- Unscramble sentences, correct punctuation, match the sentences and choose the best heading
- WEATHER WORD LISTS
TERMINOLOGY VOLUME 4: Terminology used for weather reports and scripts are not listed here. WEATHER IDIOMS: when it rains, it pours…, …rain or shine…, …take a rain check…, ...head in the clouds…, …under the weather. .., … breath of fresh air…, …fair weather friend… WEATHER CONDITIONS: GOOD: great, nice, fine, lovely, beautiful, wonderful, excellent, gorgeous, fair, pleasant BAD: awful, terrible, nasty, lousy, foul, rotten, miserable, unpleasant, dull TEMPERATURE: sunny, warm, hot, mild, cool, chilly, cold, freezing, icy, frosty PRECIPITAION: rainy, wet, humid, dry, arid, frigid, foggy, smoggy, misty WIND: windy, stormy, breezy, windless, calm, still SKY: cloudy, overcast, cloudless, clear, bright, blue, grey, dark, a patch of blue sky Year level: The WEATHER SERIES - VOLUMES 3-6 are aimed at year 2 students, but includes extra information and differentiated resources - in Celsius and Fahrenheit - that will most certainly benefit students in higher grades, as well as students that speak English either as an addition, second or foreign language.
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