Learning the Language of Weather

Dear Parents,

Once a month, your child will get to be the weather forecaster. He or she will report to us about what is happening with the weather. Along with telling us if it is snowy, sunny, cloudy, rainy, or windy, the weather person recites the weather chant and rhyme and shares a song or poem about the weather. To extend this activity at home, consider listening to weather news together and discussing weather patterns. Your voracious vocabulary learner may want to talk about precipitation, wind velocity, humidity, cumulus clouds, and much more!

Enjoy listening as your child recites the following language by heart:

Weather Chant
What is the weather?
What is the weather?
What is the weather?
(clap) To-day?

Whatever the Weather
Whether the weather be fine
Or whether the weather be not,
Whether the weather be cold
Or whether the weather be hot,
We’ll weather the weather,
Whatever the weather —
Whether we like it or not.
Traditional

We are memorizing the following poems and songs (from your child’s Poetry and "I Can Read" Notebook).  If you say these first lines, your child may recite the remainder of the language for you:

Thank you for encouraging your child to love language.

"Pretty things, well said, it’s nice to have them in your head."  —Robert Frost