🔬 Weather Watcher
Observador del clima
🔬 Science
K-ESS2-1SL.K.1
Objective: Child observes today's weather, describes it in Spanish, and notices how weather changes and how we dress for it.
🧺 Materials
- a window or outdoor space
- paper and crayons (optional)
- different clothes (hat, jacket, sunglasses)
📋 Instructions (parent)
- Look outside together and use all your senses: what do you see, hear, and feel?
- Ask your child to describe the weather in Spanish (sunny, cloudy, rainy, windy).
- Step outside for a moment if you can to feel the temperature and the wind.
- Pick out clothes that match the weather and let your child dress a doll or themselves.
- Make a simple weather pile or picture for today; check tomorrow to see if it changed.
➕ Extension ideas
- Keep a one-week weather chart with a drawing for each day.
- Sing a weather song and add hand motions for sun, rain, and wind.
🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish
Español
Vamos a mirar por la ventana y descubrir cómo está el clima hoy. ¿Hace sol o está nublado? ¿Sientes el viento? El clima cambia cada día, ¡vamos a observarlo como científicos!
💬 Conversation prompts
- ¿Cómo está el clima hoy?
- ¿Hace calor o hace frío?
- ¿Qué ropa necesitamos para hoy?
- ¿Ves nubes en el cielo?
- ¿Crees que mañana lloverá?
🔑 Vocabulary
- clima — weather
- sol — sun
- nube — cloud
- lluvia — rain
- viento — wind
- frío — cold
- calor — hot
Other ways to do it
⚡ 5-minute version
Look out one window and say three Spanish words that describe the weather right now.
🚗 Car version
On the drive, describe the sky and weather in Spanish at every stoplight.
😴 No-energy version
From the couch, peek out the window and whisper what the weather is doing today.
🎯 California standards covered
| K-ESS2-1 | Watching the Weather “I can watch the weather and notice how it changes.” |
| SL.K.1 | Taking Part in Conversations “I can take turns talking and listening when I have a conversation.” |