Weather Match and More

I’ve seen a few ideas for a weather theme on the blogs lately and thought I’d add a couple of my own. The matching game has pictures of different kinds of weather. There is the sun, a day with a blue sky, wind blowing the trees, a snowflake and a cloud with raindrops. The matching pictures either are something you’d wear in that type of weather or something you can do. In the wind, you can fly a kite, if you are out in the bright sun, you’d need to put on sunglasses etc.



































Weather Recordings:
Here are some recordings to go along with a weather or seasons theme. they are good to have on in the background or for a listening area.

Lazy Summer Day - The Warm Sounds Of Summer
Light Spring Rain
Thunder Storm By the Sea
Thundering Rain Storm
Wind Blizzard
Windy Wasteland: Nature Sounds Only Version

Check out these weather themed activities and this awesome weather sensory tub from Counting Coconuts.
You'll find some neat weather art and science ideas here on Mrs. Karen's blog.


All images came from the links on my image credits page. (see in sidebar)

Sounds For Four Seasons

I thought of this project this morning after seeing a four seasons project posted on Twitter. I thought why not do a listening activity for the four seasons. It took me hours to do this today since most of the sounds are newly recorded. It was hard to think up everything for all the seasons, especially spring, but I hope you enjoy this. To have some of the sounds make sense to the kids in regards to the seasons, you can combine this with other projects in a seasons theme. It was brought to my attention that having an apple or popcorn to represent fall and winter might not be so obvious to some kids since those things are here all year round, but I tried coming up with a food related sound for each season. Of course, a food item for spring is missing because I was at a loss. I think it turned out fine though.

Click here to download the sounds.

Track List



Spring:
Birds Churping
Bee Buzzing
Spring Rain
The Pond
Digging/Planting
Summer:
Swimming Pool
Crickets
Cutting Fresh Grass
Beach
Fire Works
BBQ Grill
Fall:
Footsteps through Leaves
Apple Crunch
Squirrel
Turkey
Spooky Ghost
Winter:
Footsteps in the Snow
Crackling Fire
Warm Drink
Snowball
Polar Bear
Popcorn