📖 Feelings & Weather Faces
Caras de sentimientos y clima
📖 Literacy & Language
L.K.5SL.K.4WL.K.1
Objective: Learn describing words for feelings and weather and use them to describe themselves and the day.
🧺 Materials
- paper
- crayons or markers
- a window to look outside
📋 Instructions (parent)
- Look out the window together and talk about the weather using Spanish describing words.
- Draw a few simple faces on paper showing different feelings (happy, sad, sleepy, excited).
- Name each feeling in Spanish and make that face with your own face together.
- Ask your child to point to the face that shows how THEY feel right now and say why.
- Connect feelings to weather: 'a sunny day makes me feel happy.'
➕ Extension ideas
- Make a feelings chart and let your child move a clip to how they feel each morning.
- Act out feelings with your whole body and guess each other's feeling in Spanish.
🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish
Español
Mira por la ventana. ¿Cómo está el día hoy? ¿Está soleado o nublado? Ahora mírame la cara: estoy feliz. ¿Tú cómo te sientes hoy? Señala la carita que muestra tu sentimiento.
💬 Conversation prompts
- ¿Cómo está el clima hoy?
- ¿Cómo te sientes ahora?
- ¿Qué te hace sentir feliz?
- ¿Puedes poner una cara triste? ¿Y una contenta?
- ¿El día soleado te gusta o prefieres la lluvia?
🔑 Vocabulary
- feliz — happy
- triste — sad
- cansado — tired
- emocionado — excited
- soleado — sunny
- nublado — cloudy
- lluvioso — rainy
Other ways to do it
⚡ 5-minute version
Skip the drawing; just make four feeling faces together and name them in Spanish.
🚗 Car version
Describe the weather you see out the window and how it makes you feel.
😴 No-energy version
Snuggle and take turns whispering one feeling word and making that gentle face.
🎯 California standards covered
| L.K.5 | Exploring Word Relationships “I can sort words into groups and tell how words go together.” |
| SL.K.4 | Describing Things “I can describe people, places, and things that I know about.” |
| WL.K.1 | Exploring Spanish “I can say hello, count, and name colors in Spanish.” |