- crayons
- paper
- drizzly
- drop
- foggy
- mizzly
- weather
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.2 Recall information for short periods of time and retell, act out, or represent information from a text read aloud, a recording, or a video (e.g., watch a video about birds and their habitats and make drawings or constructions of birds and their nests).
MA STE Draft Standards
Earth and Space Sciences/Earth’s Systems/ESS2.D Use simple instruments to collect and record data on elements of daily weather. [Patterns]
Earth and Space Sciences/Earth’s Systems/ESS2.E Use data to describe how local weather changes from day to day and over the seasons and recognize patterns in those changes. [Change]
Earth and Space Sciences/Earth’s Systems/ESS2.F Apply their ideas about weather in their play.
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 2 Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
Science and Technology/Earth and Space Sciences 7 Identify the characteristics of local weather based on first-hand observations.
Science and Technology/Earth and Space Sciences 9 Observe and describe or represent scientific phenomena meaningful to children's lives that have a repeating pattern (e.g., day and night).
Watch Together: “I Like It When It’s Mizzly” (BTL clip)
ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing and Listening, Phonological Awareness (Rhythm and Rhyme), Vocabulary
Educator Prep: Copy the words onto a sheet of chart paper. Display the poem chart so children can view it easily. You might want to read the poem before watching the video poem.
Before You Watch
Tell children they are going to watch a Between the Lions video about rain called “I Like It When It’s Mizzly.” Explain that the poet uses words like mizzly, drizzly, and foggy to describe the weather outside. Have children look out the window and describe the weather.
Talk about different types of weather (rainy, snowy, hot, etc.) Encourage children to share what they know about weather. Ask questions such as,
- What is the weather like in the summer when the sun shines bright and high in the sky?
- What is the weather like in the winter when the sun is hidden by storm clouds?
- What happens when it rains outside?
Guide children to talk about rain falling from the sky as water drops. Set a listening focus for children. As children watch the video ask them to notice what the weather is like. Say, We will talk about the weather after you watch the video.
After You Watch
- Ask, What was the weather like in the video? Do you think mizzly is a good way to describe a rainy, drizzly day? What other words could you use to describe the weather in the video?
- Invite children to draw a picture of a mizzly day. Help them write captions with the word mizzly or another word they think describes the weather.
Take It Further: Have children become “weather trackers” and keep track of the weather patterns for a few weeks. Set up a calendar for the number of days you want them to track the weather. Make a number of weather icons (sun, raindrop, wind, snow, cloud) to use throughout the weeks. You may want children to color the icons. Each day have a child become the “weather tracker” and in the morning look outside to see what the weather is. Have him or her tape one of the icons on the weather calendar for that day. Have children identify and discuss the patterns throughout the weeks.
