The weather is always changing, shifting from hot to cold, or rainy or sunny, sometimes in just a matter of hours. It plays a significant role in our daily lives, impacting what we wear, what activities we do, even our moods. Here are five days of reading lessons that explore different kinds of weather.
Day 1 activity
 | Let’s watch: Inside WeatherWatch the video Inside Weather to see how extreme weather can have an impact on our lives. |
Discuss the video
What kinds of extreme weather did you see? What signals that a big storm is on the way?
 | Let’s read: The Weather Box |
 | QuizHow much do you know about The Weather Box? Take the quiz. Then, check your answers to the quiz. How did you do? |
 | Family supportUse this learning guide to walk your child through the lesson. Explore additional review & extend activities together. |
Day 2 activity
| Let’s reread: The Weather Box |
Take it further
Choose an activity to extend the fun.
Response writing: Write a journal entry
- Write a journal entry as if you were Woojin. Describe the day’s events.
- Explain what happened and what your feelings were as your problems grew.
Vocabulary & language: Find adverbs
- Adverbs make a story more interesting. Adverbs describe action words and answer the questions how, when, and where. Many adverbs end in -ly, such as quickly.
- Find at least five adverbs in the story. Talk about how each adverb adds interest to the scene.
| Family supportUse this learning guide to walk your child through the lesson. Explore additional review & extend activities together. |
Day 3 activity
| Let’s read: Nature’s SculpturesYou might not know it, but wind, water, and ice can change the shape of the land. These forces may work for millions of years to create nature's sculptures. Find out how they work and what amazing shapes they have formed. Download Nature's Sculptures |
| QuizHow much do you know about Nature's Sculptures? Take the quiz. Then, check your answers to the quiz. How did you do? |
| Family supportUse this learning guide to walk your child through the lesson. Explore additional review & extend activities together. |
Day 4 activity
| Let’s reread: Nature’s SculpturesYou might not know it, but wind, water, and ice can change the shape of the land. These forces may work for millions of years to create nature's sculptures. Find out how they work and what amazing shapes they have formed. Download Nature's Sculptures |
Take it further
Choose an activity to extend the fun.
Project: Make a model
- Choose one of the landforms you read about.
- Use construction paper or other materials to make a model of the landform.
- Display your model and tell others how nature formed it.
Research connection: Discover more landforms
- Do an online search to find out about other landforms created by weather and erosion. Some ideas include a cave, a butte, or a mesa.
- Create an information sheet about one landform. Include its name, what makes it special, and how it was formed.
| Family supportUse this learning guide to walk your child through the lesson. Explore additional review & extend activities together. |
Day 5 activity
Let's review
This week you've learned about different kinds of weather and what it can do. Today you’ll read about a group of scientists that gets up close and personal with storms.
| Let’s read: Storm Chasers |
Take it further
Extend the fun with an activity.
Capture it with a caption
- Imagine you are a writer and photographer for a newspaper. Your job is to take pictures and write captions, short sentences that describe the picture. Write a caption for each picture on the activity page. Look for more photos of wild weather in magazines or books and write your own captions.
| Family supportBe a weather reporter! Have children give a weather report to tell about the weather outside and how they should dress for the day. Tell them to use words that describe the temperature and what it is like, such as sunny, hot, windy, or cloudy. Challenge them to give a five-day forecast and then track the weather to find out how accurate they were. |
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This blog, originally published in 2020, has been updated for 2025.
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