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Weather Worksheets for Kindergarten

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Weather symbols, symbol cards, daily and monthly weather charts, weather graphs, what to wear and severe weather safety pages, with answer keys.

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Weather symbols and weather words

A weather symbols chart for the wall, symbol cards to color and cut for your class chart, matching and circle pages, and weather words to trace.

Weather charts and graphs

Record the weather every day, then count and graph it to see the pattern for the week or month.

What to wear for the weather

Choose clothes that fit the weather, sort clothes for hot and cold days, or cut and paste clothes under each kind of weather.

Severe weather safety and forecasts

What to do in a thunderstorm, tornado, snowstorm or heat wave, what goes in a storm safety kit, and how a forecast helps us plan.

Print at 100% (actual size) for the cleanest tracing lines.

About these weather worksheets

Kindergarten weather is all about looking outside and noticing. Is it sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy or windy? Is it hot or cold? When children write down the weather every day, they start to see patterns: more rainy days in spring, more cold days in winter. These weather worksheets give them simple tools to do that, with pictures they can use before they can read.

Start with the weather symbols chart and the matching pages so every child knows the symbols. The symbol cards can be colored, cut out and used on your class weather chart. Then use the weekly or monthly weather chart each morning. At the end of the month, children tally the days and compare the counts on a graph. Two ready-made graph pages, each with a month of weather already filled in, let them practice counting and comparing first.

The what to wear pages connect weather to everyday choices, with a pencil-only sort and a cut and paste version. The severe weather pages cover what to do in a thunderstorm, a tornado, a snowstorm and a very hot day, what goes in a storm safety kit, and why families listen to the weather forecast. Every page with one right answer has an answer key on page 2.

Standards

  • NGSS K-ESS2-1Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.
  • NGSS K-ESS3-2Ask questions to obtain information about the purpose of weather forecasting to prepare for, and respond to, severe weather.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.MD.B.3Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.5Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1–20, count out that many objects.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.C.6Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.5.ASort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1.APrint many upper- and lowercase letters.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.2Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.2Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.

How to use them

  1. Hang the weather symbols chart near your calendar. Color and cut out the symbol cards and point to today's card each morning.
  2. Use the weekly weather chart or the monthly weather chart every school day. Let a different child be the weather watcher each day.
  3. At the end of the month, use the tally page to count each kind of day, then talk about which kind of weather happened most.
  4. Try the ready-made weather graphs first so children learn how to color one box for each day before they graph their own data.
  5. Read the safety questions aloud and talk through each answer. Ask, "Why is that the safe choice?"
  6. After a real forecast on the radio, TV or a weather app, fill in the weather reporter page together.

Teaching tips

  • Children can tell the weather by looking out a window, feeling the air and watching trees and flags for wind.
  • Teach the difference between partly cloudy and cloudy: can you still see the sun?
  • Pre-readers work from the pictures. The short words under each picture are for the adult to read aloud.
  • When you graph, have children color from left to right, one box per day, and then count the boxes.
  • Keep the storm talk calm and practical: grown-ups watch the forecast, and we know what to do.
  • Weather words are traced first, then written alone on the line below. Start each letter at the big dot.

Questions teachers and parents ask

What weather symbols should kindergarteners learn?

Start with sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy and windy. Add partly cloudy and stormy once those feel easy. The weather symbols chart shows all of them with a short description.

How do you track the weather in kindergarten?

Look outside at the same time each day and draw the weather symbol on a weekly or monthly chart. At the end of the month, count each kind of day and make a graph to find the pattern.

Why do kindergarteners learn about weather forecasts?

A forecast tells us what the weather will be, so we can get ready. It helps us choose what to wear and keeps us safe when big storms, tornadoes, snowstorms or heat are coming.

Do these weather worksheets have answer keys?

Yes. Every page with one right answer, like the matching, circle, sort, cut and paste and graph pages, has an answer key on page 2. Charts, cards and drawing pages do not need one.