What’s the weather like today?

Weather station

Turn your role-play area into a weather station. Display a large outline map of Great Britain on the wall or on an easel. Download the Weather symbols activity sheet and encourage the children to colour them in. Mark the location of your setting on the map and encourage the children to attach the weather symbols to the map with Blu-Tack® or Velcro® according to the day’s weather.

Suggest that the children guess what the weather will be like tomorrow and role play being weather forecasters. Next day, find out if their predictions were correct!

Display photographs representing the different seasons. Cut out pictures from newspapers and magazines showing different types of weather and display these in a weather book or on the walls.

Suggested resources

Weather symbols activity sheet ; child scissors; simple map of Great Britain; coloured pencils or felt-tipped pens; Blu-Tack® or Velcro®; photographs of the seasons and extreme weather.

Dressing for the weather